First Fruits
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.51
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First Fruits is a farmhouse ale aged in oak barrels with local and estate-grown cherries, raspberries and strawberries.
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Mansquito (19100) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Goods from the Garden, Spuyten Duyvil tap: pours light brown or something and white head. Aroma mostly fruity and likely funky. Taste is cherry, strawberry, and light wood and funk. Somewhat sour. Solid.
Travlr (30173) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draft at Salud. Hazy reddish amber color. Nice mixed berry aroma with lemon and tannins. Taste is softly sour woody forest berries. Delicious.
willisread (9761) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Craft Heads. Big oak and raspberry nose. Almost lambic like. Some gooseberry maybe. Soft carbonation but not flat. Bone dry finish that lingers. Good funky, tart, dry beer. Probably my favorite from the evening.
jinroh (4381) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours darker shade of amber, bit of foam. Aroma is packing loads of homegrown fruits, I am most surprised about clear strawberry profile, it is not overshadowed by cherries of raspberries. Drinks tart, balanced with fruit sweetness. Just the right amount of tartness there, works like magic. Fruity and would accompany some sweet vanilla ice-cream, would not need any real fruits, just this beer as a side-drink to turn that experience fruity.
TimE (11146) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Deep red mahogany color. Huge fruitiness with raspberries and cherries in the nose. Medium tartiness, light body. Big lingering fruity finish that is slightly tart. Love it. Don’t know it is amazing amazing but damn good.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
3oz pour at Max’s Belgian Fest 2016 pours a hazy amber with a ring of white head. Nose has mixed berry, strawberry, a little cranberry, some lemon, passion fruit, band aid. Flavor is tart with unripened strawberry, passion fruit, lemon, heavy cranberry juice, some mild spice. Tart finish.
CLW (16859) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Novare Res. Awesome deep ruby color lasting pink head on the liquid. Aroma is like walking through a berry patch. Raspberries and strawberries can be smelled before it reached my nose.
The flavor is a balanced blend of the berries with the yeast and light barrel notes to give a slightly more complex level of flavor. The dry oak barrel and yeast cuts down the sweetness from the berries. After Nick Evans shared some with me, I order a full glass. Wonderfully done.
Chalumeaux (4962) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from tap at Novare Res thanks Justin/Nick. Pours somewhat ruby red with a small white head. Aromas of fresh red fruit juice and a hint of oak. Taste is pure balanced bliss. Awesome.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed First Fruits from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Draught at Portland location, 6/19/15
Nice clarity throughout this ruddy colored beer with light amber notes and an off-white head that is medium-sized and slowly diminishing.
Fruit very well-integrated with the beer. Not a punchy, young, piquantly-fruited beer (which is fine sometimes) but rather a fully fermented fruit character that has melded with the barrel and yeast/bacteria acids to produce more of a cherry/raspberry skin/seed/pit aroma (and flavor) with very soft, moderately acidic lactic acids keeping it fairly sour in the nose, but not cuttingly so. Oak is soft and mildly tannic, but not buttery or sharp and again, works seamlessly with the rest of the aroma. No alcohol or flaws, very elegant, as is this brewery’s nature.
Sour up front, with some light fruit acids giving off mostly a cherry flavor with light raspberry acidity and seediness through the middle. Vanilla, oak, and a fully attenuated body that is nonetheless supportive enough for the acidity. High carbonation creates an almost creamy texture while a lip-smacking tartness finishes the beer and light fruit skin notes linger. No alcohol or flaws. Divine. Not too sour, so even the average person should appreciate it.