Fall of the Rebel Angels
(has 1 batch)
Burial Beer Company in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating|
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7.12
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Barrel-Aged Sour Ale with Chokeberries
A relic of the underlying theory of Burial. Take that which is forgotten, and breathe into it, new life. The chokeberry is a unique fruit, grown among Carolina as a bitter berry hanging for months untouched, until one day it's sugars finally peak and the birds pillage. We wanted to celebrate this sordid tale of transformation. A selected blend of golden sour ales laid to rest in different neutral red wine barrels for a year. Blended back into steel with locally harvested red and black chokeberries from Indian Grove Farms, and then bottle conditioned for several months. The final expression hints at cherry pie, blueberry juice and cranberry sauce with orange zest and cinnamon.
A relic of the underlying theory of Burial. Take that which is forgotten, and breathe into it, new life. The chokeberry is a unique fruit, grown among Carolina as a bitter berry hanging for months untouched, until one day it's sugars finally peak and the birds pillage. We wanted to celebrate this sordid tale of transformation. A selected blend of golden sour ales laid to rest in different neutral red wine barrels for a year. Blended back into steel with locally harvested red and black chokeberries from Indian Grove Farms, and then bottle conditioned for several months. The final expression hints at cherry pie, blueberry juice and cranberry sauce with orange zest and cinnamon.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On draught at Hoof Hearted during the Don't Microwave It Don't Boil It vs Slø Turbø - Dual Can Release on 10/07/2018. The beer is a cloudy purplish-copper color with a medium pinkish-white head that evaporates steadily to an outer ring. Partial rings of lace. Aroma of berry, yeast, vanilla and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of tart berries, slightly funky yeast and doughy malt. The finish is tart and slightly funky with a berry aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2019
at 21:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft tasting glass @ Beerlovers Bar. Dark orange, soapy white head. Nose is weird plastic sour fruit, milky, milky gooseberry, almost something that Hof ten Dormaal would do, sour plastic fruit. Taste is weird soap, plastic, soap, overly yoghurt, plastic yoghurt fruit, berry,... Yoghurt, milky berry body,... Not a bit success but partially okay. The acclaim that I have seen this brewery get for its saison’s is lost on me here with this one & the other one that I tried.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jul 2017
at 13:29
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at beerlovers tap takeover. Pours medium clear, peachy and light. Small white head. Smell is wet, mineral, earthy, almost like tunips. Taste is bit sour, yet not sharp at all. Really rounded by the fruits. Soft carbo. Easy drinkable. Very kild dryness at the end.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2017
at 18:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a dark golden/bronzed color with a fingers worth of off white foamy head that felt off at a decent pace. Not much lace.
The aroma had some sour qualities up front playing with some sweet and tart fruit. Light funk, some breadiness, light basement/earthiness.
The flavor was a blend of sour to sweet to the fruit, breadiness and earthiness spreading into the funky portion. Aftertaste was funky. Finish was earthy and funky, somewhat sour.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty good saison I could come back to if I could get it again. But I think I missed the chokeberries in this.
The aroma had some sour qualities up front playing with some sweet and tart fruit. Light funk, some breadiness, light basement/earthiness.
The flavor was a blend of sour to sweet to the fruit, breadiness and earthiness spreading into the funky portion. Aftertaste was funky. Finish was earthy and funky, somewhat sour.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty good saison I could come back to if I could get it again. But I think I missed the chokeberries in this.
Tried
on 31 May 2017
at 23:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft pour at ANXO Cidery & Pinxtos Bar during CBC. Poured a pale, slightly hazy yellow color with a small white head. Aroma was light straw, some grassy notes. Light tart notes. Flavor was similar, light tartness. Very mild vinegar sour.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Apr 2017
at 10:37