Saint Dekkera Barrel Reserve Sour: Barleywine
Destihl Brewery in Normal, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.67
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Our complex, Belgian-style ‘wild beers’ are aged for several months or even years in our oak barrels. Each barrel contains a different base beer (with distinct color, flavor, body, alcohol, malt and hop character) which undergoes spontaneous and prolonged fermentation with wild critters including Brettanomyces, which is a non-spore forming genus of yeast which lives on the skins of fruit in the wild. The genus name Dekkera is used interchangeably with Brettanomyces and was discovered at the Carlsberg brewery in 1904 by N. Hjelte Claussen, who was investigating it as a cause of spoilage in English ales but which is appreciated and encouraged in certain traditional Belgian-style ales.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Sweet oaky bourbon, tart prune aroma. Deep chestnut with a small off-white head. Sour prune, vanilla, oak, and alcohol flavor. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2013
at 18:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft. Oak, bourbon, sour cherry, alcohol and toffee malt aroma. Dark brown with minimal head. Very sour/astringent cherry and toffee malt flavor. Very unique - surprising combination.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2013
at 17:59
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at GABF. Pours with a murky brown body and a tan head. Aromas are sour, caramel, estery, oak. Flavors are odd, sweet (too the point of cloying), caramel, acidity, raisins. Thick, acidic, light bubbles and sour. Flavors clash for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Nov 2011
at 13:34
6/10
Tried
on 03 Oct 2011
at 23:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Growler thanks to Sarah, shared with others! Pours a near clear amber brown with a near white head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma has a sour red fruit note with a backing grains and caramel as well as a hint of pine hops. Flavor began with sour red fruits with a bit of growing sweet grains and caramel and a bit of a hop bite coming out in the finish. Different for sure.
Tried
from Growler
on 28 Nov 2010
at 20:56