Disparate Elements #005: Sarsaparilla Sour
BrewDog OverWorks in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.18
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Scottish sour ale fermented with sarsaparilla & vanilla, aged in bourbon barrels.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to a neighbour. Pours clear red-brown with a thin off-white head. Aromas of funky fruit, apple vinegar, vanilla. Taste is funky toffee, sharp red berry and more vanilla. Faint woody notes at the back. Sharp finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2024
at 18:48
02/12/2019. BREWDOG BRISTOL, 58 Baldwin Street, BRISTOL, Bristol, England. Board above bar shows this as Sarsaparilla Sultan
Tried
on 07 Jan 2023
at 14:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from BrewDog Online. It pours cloudy brown with bubbly beige head. The aroma is juicy, tangy fruits, cranberry, plum, date, Dr Pepper, bourbon, bubblegum and fizzy cherry cola bottles. The taste is juicy, tart, tangy, puckering, nip of acidity, loads of jammy berries, raspberry, cherry, cranberry, plum, date, sour candy, fizzy cola bottles, Dr Pepper, Little bit of vanilla, oak and sweet bourbon with a drying fruity finale. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Fruity, tangy and moreish. I don't get as much acidity as a few others have mentioned. Fun stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2020
at 14:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home from Brewdog online. A hazed amber copper coloured pour with a fading loose beige head. Aroma is spicy sour, musty fruit cake, sticky toffee, oaky notes, apple. Flavour is composed of sweet and sour, toffee, cakey, big spicy sour, lacto, little mouldy wood, vanilla, oaky finish. Palate is medium sweet, medium puckering sour, prickly. Little harsh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2020
at 16:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Cloudy orange-amber. Wood, malt, vinegar, caramel, vanilla, fruitiness, cobwebs, sour and a bit sweet, medium-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2020
at 12:12
7/10
Tried
on 02 Feb 2020
at 21:03
5/10
Funky, sourish, vanilla, woody, caramel
Tried
on 24 Dec 2019
at 20:27
10/10
Tried
on 19 Dec 2019
at 11:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at BD Paddington, 13/12/19. Amber pour with a light beige covering. Nose is stewed fruits, vinous, acidic nostril tickle, funk, dry rot. Taste comprises sharp fruit rinds, faint bourbon, fruit balsams, acidic bite, vinous, damp wood, tobacco, berry skins. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close with quite and acidic rinse. Not bad ... good level of complexity of on the high end of the acidity scale.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2019
at 12:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at brewdog Lothian road... Hazy amber.. Thin white lacing.. Soft earthy funk fruit nose.. Soft sharp vanilla Gooseberry fruit.. Juicy sweet fruits. Soft sweet tart fruits
Tried
on 04 Dec 2019
at 17:10