Grim Harvest
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.28
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Grim Harvest is our farmhouse ale refermented with the “spent” blackberries from Jester King Nocturn Chrysalis.
Several years ago, we noticed that the refermented fruit from our beer still had a lot of character left in it. So we decided to do a second refermentation of the fruit to draw out more of that character. The inspiration for this technique also came from reading that Cantillon had once done this. The result was beers like La Vie en Rose (raspberries) and Detritivore (cherries). We have now completed this technique with blackberries for Grim Harvest. Although, to be precise, a few years ago beer from a second refermentation of blackberries made its way into Synthesis Analogous.
We’ve been looking forward to releasing the second refermentation of the blackberries from Nocturn Chrysalis (working title “Blackberry 2”) for quite some time, so we hope you enjoy!
Several years ago, we noticed that the refermented fruit from our beer still had a lot of character left in it. So we decided to do a second refermentation of the fruit to draw out more of that character. The inspiration for this technique also came from reading that Cantillon had once done this. The result was beers like La Vie en Rose (raspberries) and Detritivore (cherries). We have now completed this technique with blackberries for Grim Harvest. Although, to be precise, a few years ago beer from a second refermentation of blackberries made its way into Synthesis Analogous.
We’ve been looking forward to releasing the second refermentation of the blackberries from Nocturn Chrysalis (working title “Blackberry 2”) for quite some time, so we hope you enjoy!
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From backlog. Draught @ Mikkeller Baghaven. Tart, funky and sour with some berries, wood, oak and tartness. Okay.
Tried
on 13 May 2018
at 08:27
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught at Mikkeller Baghaven. Hazy, reddish colour with a thin white head. Tart fruity aroma with lemons, raspberries, blackberries and sour cherries. Taste is sour. Medium body with a creamy texture and a slick texture. Finishes tart fruity with red berries. Nice Sour.
Tried
on 10 May 2018
at 14:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Craig. Pours a cloudy rose gold with small white head. The aroma is funk, oak, berry, earth. Thin body, blackberry, oak, funk, light acidity and tartness, vinous, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2017
at 23:25