Noble Rot
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer - Grape Ale Rotating Out of Production|
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6.98
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Hmmm. We wonder if anyone will buy a beer with the word "rot" in the name?
This saison-esque science project gets complexity and fermentable sugars from two unique wine grapes sourced with our friends at Alexandria Nicole Cellars in Prosser, Wash.
The first addition is unfermented juice, known as must, from viognier grapes that have been infected with a benevolent fungus called botrytis. This noble rot reduces the water content in the grapes while magnifying their sweetness and complexity. The second is pinot gris must intensified by a process called dropping fruit, where large clusters of grapes are clipped to amplify the quality of those left behind.
"This is the absolute closest to equal meshing of the wine world and the beer world thats ever been done commercially," says Dogfish's Sam Calagione.
Noble Rot is brewed with pils and wheat malts and fermented with a distinct Belgian yeast strain. It has a spicy white wine body and a dry, tart finish.
Noble Rot first went on tap at our brewpub in February of 2011 and went into full 750ml bottle production in January 2012.
This saison-esque science project gets complexity and fermentable sugars from two unique wine grapes sourced with our friends at Alexandria Nicole Cellars in Prosser, Wash.
The first addition is unfermented juice, known as must, from viognier grapes that have been infected with a benevolent fungus called botrytis. This noble rot reduces the water content in the grapes while magnifying their sweetness and complexity. The second is pinot gris must intensified by a process called dropping fruit, where large clusters of grapes are clipped to amplify the quality of those left behind.
"This is the absolute closest to equal meshing of the wine world and the beer world thats ever been done commercially," says Dogfish's Sam Calagione.
Noble Rot is brewed with pils and wheat malts and fermented with a distinct Belgian yeast strain. It has a spicy white wine body and a dry, tart finish.
Noble Rot first went on tap at our brewpub in February of 2011 and went into full 750ml bottle production in January 2012.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A sour flavor of grape and lemon with a watery aftertaste. Yellow in color with a white head.
Tried
on 19 Apr 2013
at 18:53
7/10
Tried
on 05 Apr 2013
at 16:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Unlike any saison I’ve ever tasted. Aroma is spice with a pronounced grapey overlay. Colour is pale yellow with a white head, looks like a pale lager. Spicy and grapey taste, the wine notes really come out.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2013
at 14:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle poured into a white wine glass. Pours pale yellow with medium fluffy white head, and some lacing, Light body, medium carbonation, and light floral aroma. Taste is floral, some grain, hint of grapes, spicy yeast, hint of alcohol, and finishes dry. Reminds me of a dry white wine, dry mead, or dry saison. Not very fruity for a fruit beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2013
at 19:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
herbs, grass, earthy, pale, golden, clear, minimal head, white foam, medium sweetness, medium body, creamy, lively, long finish,
Tried
on 06 Mar 2013
at 16:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From a 75 cl bottle shared at home. Pours a clear pale gold with a frothy white head. Aroma of fruit and dough. Flavors of white wine with some sour notes. Quite different and intriguing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2013
at 16:27
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
6th June 2012
Bright clear paleish gold beer. Good white head. Mildly sour grapey nose. Palate is fresh and crisp. Mildly tart grape with a whisper of orange. Minerals. Finishes dry and winey. This really does come over as a tart white wine. Would love to give this to snooty wine drinkers and see what they made of it! Super inventive - even by Dogfish Head standards!
Bright clear paleish gold beer. Good white head. Mildly sour grapey nose. Palate is fresh and crisp. Mildly tart grape with a whisper of orange. Minerals. Finishes dry and winey. This really does come over as a tart white wine. Would love to give this to snooty wine drinkers and see what they made of it! Super inventive - even by Dogfish Head standards!
Tried
on 23 Feb 2013
at 10:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. I’ve been looking forward to trying this since it debuted several years ago. Bright clarity and straw yellow on the pour with a retentive white head. Pils malt and grassy aroma, earthy, stone fruit, mild grape. A touch of DMS. Mildly acidic and pretty strong yeasty flavors, some bright grapey fruit, husky DMS malt, dry, well hidden alcohol. Lots of saison character. No huge Viognier nor wine, nor sour flavor in the fore front. Lively carbonation. Bready and yeasty flavors. Dry, well contained alcohol. Different than expected. Aftertaste has mild plastic and sulfur notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2013
at 21:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear light golden liquid with medium white head. Aroma of grapes/white wine, red berries, bubblegum, cereal and light banana. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with notes of white wine, cereal and bubblegum. Light to medium bodied with medium to high carbonation. Weird as hell, really a fusion between white wine and beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2013
at 06:05
Tried
on 04 Dec 2012
at 16:41