Kykao - Handcrafted Reverse Engineered Champagne

Reverse Engineered Champagne

 

Kykao - Handcrafted in Patras, Western Greece, Greece 🇬🇷

  Sour / Wild Beer Special
Score
7.52
ABV: 14.0% IBU: - Ticks: 4
A Sour Beer, Reverse Engineered to resemble the delicate and complex taste of French Champagne. Lemon blossom, light tropical fruits and a high and complex acidity and minerality are just some of its qualities! A second fermentation in the bottle ensures a pretty high carbonation!
Is this beer or champange?
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8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle bought at Kykao. Drunk with Bob and Max. Golden amber, small head. Nose of elderflower, honey, white wine. Wow, flavors of mead, light sourness, lychee, maybe oak?, lemon. Not really champagne like, little carbonation, but reminds me of complex dessert wine flavors in a more dry white. By the way, there's Weinstein in the bottom, wow!
Tried from Bottle on 19 Mar 2024 at 20:43

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle, thanks a lot Fin! Very much Lychee, super Lychee aroma. Hazy golden, low head. Medium to full body. Dry lychee, sweet white bread, kiwi marmelade, top notch boozy fruits, super intersting. Too easy drinkable :-P
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2021 at 21:38

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle, many thanks Fin! Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is lychee, full-blown lychee purree, really unexpected. Taste is lychee, some champagne yeast flavours there, brioche, warming finish. Surprisingly fine-bubbled carbonation. Wow, I'm impressed. The ingredients list claims only water, barley malt, hops, yeast - must be a crazy yeast, cause this is basically a mimosa where you replace the orange juice with lychee juice. I am really blown away by this, especially if there really are no adjuncts in here - this is similar to Cloudwater's Slushie series, where Grape Brut IPAs are blended with Fruited sours... Bonus points for that!
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2021 at 21:36

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Kostas, Kykao Brewery shared with Xenofon and Anastasia at their apartment in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Saturday 7th November 2020. Pours hazy gold with a white head, zappy, tart and wonderfully sour. There is a definite wine/champagne quality here. Dry finish, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2020 at 21:21