Pearls of Wisdom (2016 - )
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.38
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. pours hazy golden orange, medium off-white creamy head, dissipates pretty slowly with nice lacing. Aroma is huge Brett, dusty, basement mustiness, citrus, some tropical notes. Flavor is dry, light bitterness, medium funk. The dry hop has faded leaving a lot more Brett than anything else. Not bad for what it is, however. Medium body.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at CBC 3rd Sour Fest, 3/26/16.
Bright goldenrod with lighter hay/flax hues and a large white head that slowly recedes to cover. Light to moderate haze.
Hoppy in the nose, but it leans heavily on the amarillo, with a "sweeter" pine-apricot-peach character from the mosaic that, thankfully, doesn’t get fatiguing/dominant. Tettnang gets a little lost in the shuffle, but there is a bit of dry hay and light herbal character. Brett behind it all is horsey and full of lime and band-aid, but there’s no sharp perfume/lilac nor is there any soap. Malts are sparse, though there’s some light honey. No heavy breadiness and no alcohol or flaws.
Moderately hoppy flavor doesn’t carry much bitterness, thankfully. Nicely attenuated, with cracker and biscuit, light interludes of sticky honey and tons of fruity, dry, funky brett. Carbonation is tight and the texture is effervescent and watery-drinkable. I do get a little bit of aggressive alcohol/ester at certain points, which is my only complaint, but otherwise this is going to be a phenomenal brett conditioned bottle release and is no slouch even young like this on draught.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Golden orange. Nice head. Smell is extremely juicy. Loads of tropical fruit. Lovely bitterness. This is extra profane. Damn. Brett throughout. Not sour. App funk.