Oxbow Brewing Company First Fruits

First Fruits

 

Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating
Score
7.51
ABV: 7.0% IBU: - Ticks: 29
Barrel-Aged Farmhouse Ale with Fruit

First Fruits is a farmhouse ale aged in oak barrels with local and estate-grown cherries, raspberries and strawberries.
 

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7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask Days 2018. Poured a reddish/purple, with a small pink head. Aroma is soft berries, strawberries in particular, with some tart juice, and light lactic notes. The barrel adds some light vinous notes, hints of vinegar, tart turn to sour at the end with a round, almost sweet tang of raspberry in the end.

Tried from Cask on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:18


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured a kind of ruby red color with a small white head. Aroma was raspberry, cherry. Flavor was tart cherries, malt, jam. Light acid, some mild funk. Pleasant stuff.

Tried on 06 Feb 2024 at 06:32


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Beautiful, hazy pink and peach coloured body with a thinnish off-white glow and a nice richness in the look. Aroma of soured and funky fruits (of course) with a lot of dryness and oaky qualities along with a little dose of sweetness, in the nose, at least. Medium-bodied; Rich fruity and dry malt notes show at first with a big sweetness, all from the fruits, right behind with some herbal and grassy notes at the end, but the tropically and dry, citrusey sweetness make this robust and very enjoyable throughout with a good deal of sugars here, but an overwhelming sour and tart fruity bit that is very refreshing and crisp. Overall, a super enjoyable beer with a good balance between sour, tart, sweet, dry and funky flavours that holds the palate for a long time and is great to have in general, let alone on tap! I sampled this eight ounce pour on draught at Blind Tiger in New York, New York for US$11,00 on 10-May-2023 after seeing Enter Shikari here in the Bowery Ballroom.

Tried from Draft on 01 Aug 2023 at 00:48


8.5

Nice stuff. Great cherry fruity aroma. Good tartness and nice rounded finish. Can’t get the saison element though.

Tried from Draft on 18 Mar 2022 at 10:20


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Raspberry and a touch of cherry, fresh lime. Pours pink hazy. Tart finish, nicely done. Great tang and fruity vibe. Nice stuff. Tap at Delerium Leesburg.

Tried from Draft on 19 Dec 2020 at 22:47


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ MBCC 2019 - Yellow Session
Pours hazy pinkish with a pinkish finish. Aroma has notes of malt, raspberry, citrus, tart and funk. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium sour with a long raspberry, citrus, tart and funky finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried on 13 Jul 2020 at 17:20


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Pre Thermostat Incident share. Pours hazy deep red with a small pink head. Aromas of cherries, raspberries, light strawberry, oaky, light funky. Taste has lots of cherries, raspberries, strawberry jam, lightly plasticy, light oaky sweetness, lactic acidity, highly fruity acidic too.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

How: Draught.
Where: MBCC 2019.
Appearance: Hazy red colour with a minimal white head.
Aroma: Raspberries, cherries, strawberries, tart, acidic.
Body: Medium body, low to medium carbonation.
Flavour: Raspberries, strawberries, acidic, cherries, funk, tart.

Tried on 28 Sep 2019 at 11:11


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draught @ MBCC '19 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2019, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark.[ As Oxbow First Fruits ].Unclear medium red colour with a small, virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, wood, fruit - berries ala cherry - raspberry - strawberry, medicine. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, berries ala cherry - raspberry - strawberry, medicine, citric, brett - funk. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20190510] 7-3-8-3-15

Tried on 25 Aug 2019 at 10:54


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

MBCC. Hazy red/peach with no head. Aroma is malt, fruit, berries and lemon. Flavour is malt, berries, lemon, medium sweet, fruit stone, medium sweet and notes acetone.

Tried on 30 Jul 2019 at 11:07