Barrel Select - Green
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Elmsford, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.02
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours cloudy gold from bottle. Sour apple smell some hops. Funky Brett, pepper and spice. Didn’t get much oak.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Very clear and nice crisp golden and lightly copper tinted body with a thinnish, one to two centimetre tall pure white head that fades pretty quickly, especially for the style. Aroma of pure funky, spontaneously fermented gueuze notes with a lot of wheat and dry grassiness, but the tart, funky and herbal, oaky notes really come out and define the aroma of this one in a great way, and without looking at the front, you'd think this is a classic gueuze from Belgium - very nice in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong grassy and very tart spontaneously fermented notes dominate here with a great level of oaky and cedar notes as well, with a lot of sweetness towards the end, but the wheat and pure yeast funkiness dominate in a great way here and show well throughout. Aftertaste shows a great balanced beer with a light wheat malt note, but the soured and tart flavours persist and also bring out a light sweetness at the very end, with some oaky and cedar flavours and pungency as well, but the beer is complex and dry, especially at the end. Overall, a very nice, pure gueuze, with a lot of similarities of this to some of the better ones from Belgium itself, with this being made in New York (USA), I like this a lot and compared to the Red Barrel Select, this is much better in almost every way (perhaps aside from the look), but this is comparable to some of the best beers in the style and definitely worth going out of your way to find/try if you can - If I can get another bottle of this, I'll grab as many as I can and age them for a long period of time, because with a corked and caged bottle, they'll get better for a long time coming. I sampled this 37,5 cL, caged and corked bottle, horizontally with the Red Barrel Select, purchased at the same time as this one, purchased from Glen Ro Spirit Shoppe in Monroe, Connecticut on 19-December-2021 for US$9,99 (and part of a buy one, get one free promotion) sampled a few minutes after running the USMC Marathon (my eighth) with my wife on 30-October-2022 - congrats to her, and this beer is in celebration of that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375 mL bottle from Beer Run. Felt like I need something a little special for rating 14444, and it being St. Patrick's Day (locally at least) and this beer being GREEN, this is the most "Irish" beer I currently have. Golden color, clear now but I wonder what lurks in the bottom of the bottle. Large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of pepper, funk, oak, citrus, dandelion, horseblanket. The taste is white grape, citrus, oak, funk, candied citrus. Medium bodied, lingering tartness, soft but high carbonation. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Bert’s in Millersville. Hazy yellow gold. Aroma is light green apple vinegar. Flavor is sweet slick malt covering the aroma aspects. Low carbonation even though on tap. Light sour. Green apple burps.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at EatBar DC pours a lightly hazy gold with some swirling, white head. Nose has lemon rind, tart apples, more crab apple, a little wet wood, some butter, some unripened stone fruit. Flavor follows, apples, super white nectarine, some acid, some butter, a little green grape. Finishes lightly tart.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at the Industry. Hazy, Mily pale golden with soft, bubbly head. Gentle fruity, yeasty aromas. Taste picks up with a nice sweet pucker, grapes. Nice feel, but nothing sticks around for too long. Nice.