Watusi Moonshot
ROAK Brewing Co. in Marshall, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.30
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With a sweet touch to the front and tart apple to the back of the palate, this kettle sour ale is a pleasant reminiscence of the caramel apple.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Pour is pure gold pale ale. Scent is stimulating sweet spice. Taste is big apple on top of rude lager; maybe ale. No, this is not really a sour wildly beer, forgettahbahttit. Its an overly spiced brew with lots of artificial apple and shit spices, oops, I mean flavor. Too much like an apple fruit beer wanna bee with the added cloying spice to cover up and reinforce the artificial aspects. A little out of bounds to allow this to be placed into the same style a as a natural wild brew. Well, in the end, it is what it is. Didn't have high expectation and found out I was correct. To put this into the same style as North Country Lurnberry Sour Ale , Helltown Kriek, Beaver Open Fermented Wild, Draai Laag Red Briar or even Church Brew Sour Piet is a big mistake. Please, separate sour and wild, for beers sake, no pun intended. This beer is not bad overall, it just comes across as unnatural at times. Just a tad of trying to be real. There you have it.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2020
at 21:12
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Sampled from the tap at the Beer Grotto A2. Pours a clear straw yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has notes of caramel, marshmallow and a bit butterscotch. Flavor has butterscotch and caramel with a tart green apple in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2019
at 00:53
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 8/22/2019. Pours slightly hazy deep golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big sour/tart/tangy red/green apples, fruit peel, lemon, lime, orange, peach, pear, melon, apricot, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, honey, caramel syrup, wheat, white bread dough, light butterscotch/peppercorn/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of apples, fruity/acidic yeast, caramel flavoring, and pale/wheat malt notes; with big strength. Taste of big sour/tart/tangy red/green apples, fruit peel, lemon, lime, orange, peach, pear, melon, apricot, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, honey, caramel syrup, wheat, white bread dough, light peppercorn/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, fruit tang, and light spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of sour/tart/tangy red/green apples, fruit peel, lemon, lime, orange, peach, pear, melon, apricot, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, honey, caramel syrup, wheat, white bread dough, light butterscotch/peppercorn/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of apples, fruity/acidic yeast, caramel flavoring, and pale/wheat malt flavors; with an awesome malt/tart/sourness and tangy fruit balance; with no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering tart/sourness and tangy fruit. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/grainy, and acidic/tangy/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an awesome flavored/fruited kettle sour. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of apples, fruity/acidic yeast, caramel flavoring, and pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/tannic/drying finish; not overly lactic. Awesome balance of big juicy apples and lacto complexity; with great balanced caramel flavoring, and pale/wheat malt backbone against acidity. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and outstanding experimental style example as expected. Tastes exactly like a caramel apple all the way through.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Sep 2019
at 20:36