Blackcurrant Brut Ale
Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) in Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania 🇱🇹
Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut Regular|
Score
6.45
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This beer was brewed in collaboration with Alaus biblioteka bar based in Vilnius old town. Guys came to our brewery on warm summer evening and we discussed the details of what our beer might be. We shaked our hands and agreed on brewing something for the autumn nights. It’s hard to call it beer, it’s not totally right to call it wine, we would be lying calling it cider. Although it starts it’s way as a classic barley ale, we ferment it with champagne yeast. It leaves almost no residual sugar and creates this flavour profile that resembles dry wine. When the fermentation is over we add 50 litres of natural aronia juice and 200 kilos of real blackcurrant berries into the fermentation vessel and let it referment. The final result is rubin like purple beverage, packing extremely complex flavours. Champagne like sourness, blackcurrant skin flavour, some tannins from aronia and dry mouthfeel. It’s very special but very moreish at the same time.
EBC: 63 (dark wine)
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Red colour and pinky head. Blackcurrant aroma, faint tartness. Light-bodied. Dry blackcurrant flavour, earthy notes. Tolerable. At brewery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap @MBCC 2025, Yellow Session. Clear dark red, light pink head. Mild blackcurrant and hops aroma. Sourish blackcurrant flavour, slightly tart finish.
Draught @ MBCC '25 [ Yellow 🟨 Session 🧙♂️🍻🇩🇰 ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2025, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. . [20250523]
Draught @ MBCC '25 [ Yellow 🟨 Session 🧙♂️🍻🇩🇰 ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2025, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. . [20250523]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
CBH WS2025. Reddish purple colour with a small pink small head. Aroma is berries, blackcurrant, mild berry bushleafs with some slight tartness as well. Flavour is quite much following the pattern of the aroma. A bit on the watery side of things, but nicely sparkling carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Сбродило пиво на дрожжах из шампанского, честно, этого не ощущается. Есть просто неплохой кислый саур с черной смородиной, весьма однобокий, но пить можно.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Red with a red head - Berry aroma - Malt body with a berry flavour - Berry flavours goes into the finish - This was good
From Backlog. Taster, from tap, at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 24. Reddish with pinkish head. Berries, currants, sour, thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Sample at MBCC2024, Copenhagen. Colour is Clear red with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Berries, red berries, dryness....