Pulling Nails (Blend #01)
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Perennial Artisan AlesSour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production
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Score
7.39
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These 4 beers are:
Spontaneous Wild (Lambic-style, native microflora from my family’s farm) - aged 25 months in French Oak White Wine (bright citric acid, mushroomy, musty)
Flanders Red - aged 18 months in American Oak Chambourcin Barrels (tart candy, robust oak, big acid, very light acetic)
Saison du Fermier - aged 9 months in American Oak Chardonnay Barrels (citrus and orchard fruit, billowy, delicate)
Saison de Rouge - aged 6 months in American Oak Chambourcin Barrels (Amarillo hopped, pear notes, 100% house Brett)
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared during RBWG 2014 - Asheville. Pours clear, rich gold with a frothy, white head. Moderately tangy, with ample lemony tartness. Just a little bit of plastic. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with more tangy lemon character. Not bad overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma almost smells like an unblended lambic, with funk, leather, and tart citrus. Flavour isn't as lambic-like, with citrus skins, light leather and stale cardboardy notes. Cohesive and well-balanced - certainly unique flavours. Interesting, though not terrible intriguing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Side Project tasting night; hazy light copper pour with frothy off white head, brett and tart fruit aroma, taste has fresh lemon, red grapes, some acidity, dry finish, some satsuma, grapefruit, good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Pulling Nails (Blend #1) on 01 Apr 2015 at 20:36 - Score: 8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bouteille 75cl courtesy of and hsared with Steve and the crew. De couleur légèrement ambrée, col blanc fin. Arôme est riche avec une certaine complexité émanant des divers batchs utilisés dans cette production. On note un apport prenant du boisé et notamment d’une sensation de barrique de Chardonnay. Cela est couplé à un profil de brett qui offre un côté fruité frais. Le tout tire vers un vin blanc. Palais est fort complexe du à cet assemblage de tant de brassins. L’idée originale se retrouve un peu noyée dans une mer de boisé, de brett aux saveurs de vin blanc type Chardonnay. On retrouve un côté terreux de vin accompagné d’un pointe de sec voire de terreux et encore plus subtil de poussiéreux. Je note aussi un palais tirant vers un léger aigrelet sur des pointes de funk.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sampled during RBSG. From notes. Super tart and funky with a bit of a bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Acquired in a trade, this is #1. Cellar temp in stemware split 5 ways
A - very dark orange a 1 finger creamy head fades to a thin line.
S - Very grape forward, touch of vinegar and pear...acetic notes.
T - Very acidic tart sour almost harsh boozy medicinal. Very tart, cherry and woody
M - Thick, boozy and a dry finish
O - This is an interesting beer but like most american wild ales, I just don’t like it.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle - thanks Dak! Pours lightly cloudy amber, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is funky, barnyard, musty, oak, over ripe peach, some herbal. Flavor is medium tart, light tart, lemony, oaky, lightly acidic. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle thanks to Christian. Pours a cloudy orange with small frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is a strong oak, brett, funk, grape. Thin mouthfeel with strong oak, brett, light sourness, citrus, and lingeing tart finish. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks a lot to brystmar for the sample! Pours a lightly hazy darker amber with little in the way of head. Smell is tannins, murky touch dirty wood with some spoiled berries, lactic, bugs, lactic, touch vinegar. Tastes of spoiled berries, murky, lemon, citrus powder, cough drops, murky malts, tannins, old barrels, rain water, vinous, murky vinegar and faint polish. Murky, touch lower carbonation body. I quite liked these guys “Saison du Fermier” but this one is a lesser effort for me, not clean enough & the vinegar etc. make me feel like a lot of this was not as intended or at least not as it should be. I know that Americans are into this kind of stuff but this isn’t really what a sour should be even if it drinks okay.