Blended 2020
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Gueuze Series Out of Production|
Score
7.17
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Blended 2020 is a blend consisting of 1, 2, and 3 year aged, blond Missouri Wild Ales which were completely fermented in French oak. The components have individual recipes and tweaks, whether with the malt bill, the hopping rate and sometimes even with the water profile, but the goal was exclusively to develop components for this blend.
We ended up choosing 2 predominant recipes (named "#40" and "Funk") for this blend, 91% of which was fermented and aged in 500L French Oak Puncheons and the remaining 9% was from a 225L French Oak Wine Barrel. Both recipes include a very traditional inspiration of Pilsner and Unmalted Wheat and most used aged, whole leaf hops in the boil. We also increased our hopping rate in these brews over the last 3 years, something that we felt would lean further away from Side Project and more closely resemble the beautiful beers of Belgium.
We are always pushing, evolving, experimenting and trying to create new and unique flavors and we are so happy with the following that the beer has developed. We love this beer, but hate how it only comes around every three years - ha! It's one of the most classically inspired beer we produce and we have been incredibly happy with how our intentions have found their way to the glass in both of these blends. Cheers to the new release of Blended 2020 and hope you enjoy it!
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Iznogud (14627) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 750 ml courtesy of Raleigh. Shared with him and others. Hazy orange with white head. Intensive fruity notes, peaches, some citrus, wood, funk. Intensive sourness. Just a tad acetic.
ogivlado (19466) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled 750ml. -Unclear golden coloured, small to medium sized white head, yeasty fruity nose. Fruity, yeasty, notes of wood and spices with acetic notes in the finish.
rhoihessegold (9407) ticked Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Too young. Some vinegar. Some biting. Good beer underneath. But already good drinking.
ShivanDragon (10851) ticked Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Wood, bitter, wine… well this ain’t one i like.. i really don’t like this.. however still thanks Ronald R.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sergey's hunt, tasting at Ryan's, bottle
Hazy golden colour. Farty aroma, stone fruit. Aggressice, acidic, with an interesting incense character, funky yeast, very spicy, some acetone, and some astringency in the finish.
Very good.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Poured from 375mL bottle. Orangey gold with small white head. Touch of funk, lots of wood, acetone, tartness.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
375ml (thx, Brent for proxying and Matt for helping with the border crossing) shared @ Ryan's. Appearance: a bit hazy pale golden with a white head. Aroma: very fruity and woody, quite funky. Taste: very complex, with quite an aggressive acidity with nail polisher note that's mellowed down by the huge woody character. Overall: interesting, but it's quite acidic.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
375mL bottle, pours a hazy golden with a tiny white head. Nose is intense, with fragrant champagne effervescence, lots of barnyard funk, wood, and obscured stone fruits. Flavour is insane and puckering, with a huge wood character upfront, punchy acidity/tartness that alarms the palate, and moderate funky. There unfortunately some nail polish-like acetone in there. The palate is pretty abrasive without being too harsh. American gueuze-like. Certainly unique.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear gold with a small white head. Light funk and a touch of petrol. Oak, funk, soured white grape and a long finish. A bit rough around the edges, but still solid.
allinthenameofbeer (11688) ticked Blended 2020 from Side Project Brewing 5 years ago
Lci. The 9% french wine barrel flavor dominated here, wish for more sweet oak funk but maybe it'll age well, I don't have anymore though! This was pricy for a tannic forward saison.