Balaton
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.67
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Carl. Murky fairly ugly brownish red pour with a frothy beige head. Musty fruity nose with dark bread, musty sweet cherries, plums, lemon, soil, leather, apples & hints of barnyard. tiny sweet, sour, tiny malty, fruity, doughy & tiny buttery taste. Soft, round, slightly dry & tart mouthfeel. Nice smell but taste is too young with dough & butter. Give it time if you have a bottle (wrote this ~6 months ago so would be cool to retry the beer now). --- Beer merged from original tick of Balaton on 22 Jul 2016 at 19:01 - Score: 7. Original review text: Very musty sweet cherry character with solid leathery funk. Bit buttery in the taste.
DSG (25977) reviewed Balaton (Blend #01) from Side Project Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
[1/28/17] Bottle/Draught at RateBeer Best festival in Santa Rosa. Reddish amber-brown. Cherries, cellar, vinegar, oak, lemon. Great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle - pours reddish tan head - nose and taste of wine, cherry, oak, funk and cherry pie - medium body
Leighton (34941) reviewed Balaton (Blend #01) from Side Project Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Bottle at the Side Project Cellar. Pours mostly clear, reddish brown with a frothy, light tan head. Dense tart cherry in the aroma, with hints of wood, cinnamon, faint toffee; it smells beautiful. Light sweet flavour with rich, true and lightly chewy tangy cherries, some wholegrain bread, impressions of cocoa perhaps, grape. Light to medium bodied with spritzy, massaging carbonation. Tart and refreshing, with further meaty cherry notes, moderate tartness, faint earth and wood, currants. Wow, superlative. The depth and balance of the cherry character is phenomenal.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Balaton (Blend #01) from Side Project Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
375ml bottle at De garde anniversary party. pours out a hazy redish brown topped with a small head. nose is nice sweet cherries funk oak barrel notes and a little spice. Taste is more of the nice cherries a tart pucker note along with the oak.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
375mL capped bottle shared by Dice. Dark red color. Juice dark cherry juice aroma. Unfortunately the flavor loses all that juiciness and us replaced with sourness. Dry end. Want more juicy dark cherry.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Balaton (Blend #01) from Side Project Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle shared by Cory. Pours a cloudy ruby brown with medium beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong cherry skin, funk, oak. Medium mouth, tart cherry, oak, leather, very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from a bottle. Aroma is very cherry forward with some light oak notes. Nice light acidity with a touch of citrus. Pours a murky, purple brown color with a small, thin, pink head that recedes to a thin, patchy film that lingers on the edges. No lacing or legs. Flavor is moderately acidic with some light citrus notes. Moderate cherry character with a bit of oak. No funk, but a nice cherry pie character. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a nice beer with a lot of cherry notes. Light oak and funk with a nice acidity. Better, less sharp acidity than other side project beers.