Cellar 3: Oculus Sauvage
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.22
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to Alexanderdahl! Pours hazy dark orange with a medium offwhite head. Aromas of belgian yeast, hops, vinous, grapes, oak, brett. Taste is fruity, bitter, vinegary, plums, huge brett bite, oak, malty, vinous, apples, citrus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample at Daily Growler UA. Hazy reddish-orange color with a medium white head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Stringy lacing. Aroma of red wine, funky yeast, oak and malt. Full-bodied with flavors of vinous oak, Belgian yeast, malt and a touch of earthy hops. The finish is funky brett and oaky red wine. Good beer all around.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Dark reddish beer with a pink head. Brett and currant aroma with grapefruit. Dark fruit and tart flavor with brett and light grapefruit. Medium bodied. Dark fruit and tartness lingers with brett and light grapefruit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
On tap industry public house. Purple slight haze color. Slight medicinal aroma. Oooooooo, this is strong. Yes, some tartness but this is out to get yer attention. Doesn’t hide the alky well. Quite impressive. Kick yah in the jah. Decent co2. Could use a few more manners. Too much personality.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks Huhzubendah for sharing the bottle! Poured into a taster showing lightly filtered wine red with a ring of white foam. The nose shows currants with tart lambic notes. The palate is medium bodied and moderately carbonated. Moderately tart with flavors of currants and light oak in the background. Spicy tannins with a dry red wine bitterness on the finish. Bitterness is a bit awkward but not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at SBWF 2016. Hazy dark orange with a small head. Aroma of wood, some vinegar and light fruit. Similar taste. The finish was long with warming alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at slaters. Aroma of mild tart, malt and grapefruit. Strange taste of sour grapefruit, tart, stingy booze, oak and vinegar. Hard stuff, but nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
32oz growler pours with a clear copper body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up white wine tart grapes, a mildly spicy oakiness, musty grapefruit and then some vinegar at the end of the draw. The taste delivers white wine tartness, a thin layer of sweeter citrus hop juiciness and a persistent vinegar note that only grows into the finish. At times there’s a lime semi sour note blended with spicy oak. This is decent where the tartness and vinegar never become overpowering. I don’t think I would buy this again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
At GBF. Another barrel-aged IPA, a concept that still sounds a bit paradoxical to me, but every single example I had so far was exquisite so apparently this formula works very well - if well executed, and that is the least I expect from Green Flash anyway. Lightly lacing, off-white, moussy head, hazy orange blonde robe. Aroma of pink grapefruit flesh, sweet tomato, dried mango, moldy orange, marzipan, vanilla; vivid fruity flavor, hints of mango, orange, passion fruit, softish carbo, smooth mouthfeel, biscuity background, drying tannins, bitterish touch and, after swallowing, the typical red wine flavor and tartness that usually only shows up in the very end in (well-crafted) wine barrel aged beers. Lovely.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Small off-white rim; copper-amber beer. Vinous, lots of acids, including acetic. Old winebarrels’ smell. Toasted, wine, old winebarrels, some oxydation, but again acetic acid, even aldehyde/ketones. Sharp MF, well-carbonated. Bit too sharp, IMHO, but still palatable.