Cygnus: Cherry
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Kriek Series Out of Production|
Score
7.57
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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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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at MBCC 2018 Green (session IV), 11/05/18. Pinkish pour with a decent crimson cap. Nose is pissy pink berries, funk, wood must, damp straw, grains. Taste comprises barnyard esters, apple core, cherry drops, oak, funk, damp hay, red berry must. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a tangy stoned fruit nip. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2018
at 16:46
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fat på MBCC 2018, grönt pass. Blend A, från flaska. 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! Tack Samuel214
Tried
on 29 May 2018
at 08:05
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
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 14 May 2018
at 19:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
0,05l from tap at MBCC Green Session 2018. As Cygnus Blend A redish cloudy color, small white head. smells a bit rubbery, musty, some cherry notes, light marzipan, nutty, leathery. very nice smell. medium to full body, light carbonation. slick mouthfeel. tastes citric, cherries, bit grassy, marzipan, nutty, bit rubbery. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of cherries, marzipan and some nutty notes. very very nice one, light rubbery notes that do not fit so well. 8, 4, 8, 4, 16: 4 Cygnus Blend B 0,05l from tap at MBCC Green Session 2018. bourdeaux like color, small white head. smells earthy, grassy, some cherries, peppery, lightly grassy. nice smell. medium to full body, light carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of cherries, bit musty, lightly lactic, marzipan, bit nutty, earthy, some citrus. finishes rather dry and medium sour with notes of cherries, marzipan and some nutty notes. very nice one, liked this a bit more than the blend a. blend a has nicer smell but blend b has just a nicer and fuller cherry taste. very good stuff 7, 4, 8, 4, 18: 4.1
Tried
from Draft
on 14 May 2018
at 14:34
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bouteille 75cl @ Annual Tilquin Enthusiasts Admin tasting, merci Rich. Bottled 09/08/2016. Rosé sur léger trouble, col fin rosé. Arôme est fruité axé sur la cerise, le tout offrant un rétro nasal marqué de suret et de boisé plus funk. Palais sur une effervescence marquée haute, fruité devant avec côté cerise plaisant, fini sec, fruité revient à la charge avec une petite pointe de fleuri. Aigreur sans être trop marquée reste cependant présente tout au long.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2018
at 11:47
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at GABF. Hazy pinkish appearance with a bubbly head. Funky and citrusy nose like Oxcart. The cherries have a nice flavor and add some depth. A touch acetic and acidic. Good but not on par with Allagash Cerise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2016
at 16:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle at BA Belgian Beer Fest, 9/17/16.
Deep, crimson-tinged pinkish-gold body shows high clarity and a pink-tinted, beige head atop with moderate retention.
Cherry pit adds a healthy dose of black pepper and very light medicinal character (in a good way) as the farmy funk of the lambic rises up to complement the fruit very nicely. Dry, fleshy-pulp, well-attenuated juices with lots of malic acid remaining and a hint of citrus mixing in with the pepper. These are cherries done perfectly/near-perfectly. I’m not normally in to fruit lambics nearly as much as the straight gueuze/lambic, feeling that at best, it adds a pleasant fruit flavor but still detracts somewhat from the beer elements of the lambic. It’s difficult to argue with that here, as the funk still comes through very nicely and is bolstered/deepened by the acidity and pit/skin character. No alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it’s very tart, with high attenuation and more interesting fruit notes of black pepper, leather, medicine, vanilla and such. The funk element mixes in nicely, as well and the carbonation is tight, with a malty/wheaty texture that is soft and drinkable. Fantastic stuff, encouraged to see more from them.
Deep, crimson-tinged pinkish-gold body shows high clarity and a pink-tinted, beige head atop with moderate retention.
Cherry pit adds a healthy dose of black pepper and very light medicinal character (in a good way) as the farmy funk of the lambic rises up to complement the fruit very nicely. Dry, fleshy-pulp, well-attenuated juices with lots of malic acid remaining and a hint of citrus mixing in with the pepper. These are cherries done perfectly/near-perfectly. I’m not normally in to fruit lambics nearly as much as the straight gueuze/lambic, feeling that at best, it adds a pleasant fruit flavor but still detracts somewhat from the beer elements of the lambic. It’s difficult to argue with that here, as the funk still comes through very nicely and is bolstered/deepened by the acidity and pit/skin character. No alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it’s very tart, with high attenuation and more interesting fruit notes of black pepper, leather, medicine, vanilla and such. The funk element mixes in nicely, as well and the carbonation is tight, with a malty/wheaty texture that is soft and drinkable. Fantastic stuff, encouraged to see more from them.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2016
at 12:31