Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales Cygnus: Cherry

Cygnus: Cherry

 

Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Kriek Series Out of Production
Score
7.52
ABV: 6.2% IBU: 15 Ticks: 18
CYGNUS: Cherry began as as our three-yeear blended coolship Ale made using malted barely, unmalted wheat, and oats. Each batch was made using a coolship and allowed to cool overnight. While cooling, airborne wild yeast and other microbes inoculate the wort and are eventually responsible for 100% of the fermentation. The beer is fermented and aged in neutral oak barrels for 1-3 years, then blended and refermented on Montmorency tart cherries for an additional 2 months. Sweet cherry pie aroma and a light effervescence, with a tingling sourness on the finish. Each sip leaves you eager for the next. Fruit character may diminish over time, so enjoy fresh for full fruit flavor and aroma.
 

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7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared by Brian. Pours a clear, bright red color, with a fleeting, fizzy head. The aroma is cherry pie filling, cloves, and lemon juice. Bright and acidic. Light and clean. Solid, fun and bold.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Oct 2022 at 20:18


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle @ The Annual Icelandic Beer Festival 2018. Pours hazy red with a small pinkish head. Notes of sweet cherries, pitty tart cherries, light lactic tartness, subtle funk.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55


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

Bottle 375ml. @ MBCC'18 [ Green Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark.[ As Black Project Cygnus: Cherry ].Murky medium red colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, pale malt, moderate yeasty, fruity yeast, almonds, funky, farmyard, brett, cherry, grapes, citrus - lemon. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, cherry, lemon - citrus, grapes, berries, farmyard, medium dry, light sweet cherry (cocktail cherries). Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180512] 7-3-7-4-15

Tried from Bottle on 30 May 2019 at 14:19


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle 750ml @ MBCC 2018, Red Session
Pours hazy pinkish orange with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, cherry, funk and tartness. Taste is light sweet and medium sour with a long dry, cherry, funky and tart finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Apr 2019 at 20:18


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a bit cloudy raspberry red, large kinda fizzy white-pink head, dissipates fairly quickly, decent lacing. Aroma is funky, woody, Brett, bugs, barnyard, horse blanket, dank musty fruit. Flavor is dry, musty, funky, fruity, mineral quality. Kind of a Cantillon feel going. Medium body, spritzy carbonation. Quite nice.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2019 at 05:12


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

Fat på MBCC 2018, grönt pass. Blend A. Rödorange/rosa med vit krona. Syrliga körsbärskärnor up front i doften. Längre bak lite stallig funkighet. Fin, lite lättare kropp. Körsbären är där även i smaken men här kommer nästan mer fram jordgubbar och röda bär, nästan lite röda vinbär. Mycket gott!

Tried on 22 Sep 2018 at 17:01


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12th May 2018
MBCC 2018. Green. 'Free sauna with your ticket'. Keg. Hazy pink - peach beer, small peach colour head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Generic berry fruits with some floral sweetness running alongside. Lemon acid on the back end. Fair.

Tried on 01 Aug 2018 at 08:18


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

Tap@MBCC 2018 Green Session, Copenhagen - red to pink pour with white pinkish head. Sour fruity with prominent cherry fruit, grape, barnyard, funk, light grass and floral nuances, wooden notes, hay, musty, medium body, tart cherry led finish.

Tried from Draft on 23 Jul 2018 at 08:20


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

[5/12/18] Draught sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018. Red session. Hazy red with weird floaties. Cherries, vinegar, oak, tart, slightly medicinal.

Tried on 26 Jun 2018 at 08:12


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle thanks to Rainer. Pours a cloudy pink with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is strong cherry skin, oak, funk, berry. Thin body, tart cherry, funk, oak, light dry finish, very nice.
Earlier Rating: 5/18/2017 Total Score: 3.9
Bottle at WTF 5. Pours a cloudy ruby with small frothy off white head. The aroma is cherry skin, funk, oak. Thin body, tart cherry, nice sweetness, oak, light funk, very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2018 at 06:04