Goods from the Woods
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Autumn|
Score
7.14
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
At the source: pours brownish with a white head. Aroma is wood, booze, vinegar, and malts. Taste is sour... interesting funky flavors with some fruitiness. Interesting. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Chad’s house with Justin. Pours a clear dark rust orange appearance with a thin tan head. Aroma has light smoke, caramel, citrus, ash, and toast. Lower carbonation. Super ashy flavor. Moderately tart. Blood orange, tobacco, leather, and toasted oak notes. I’m not super impressed but maybe I waited a bit too long to drink this. Kinda fun.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Goods from the Woods from Oxbow Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
2015 bottle, drunk 9/9/16.
Auburn-chestnut body with some light tan hues and a good clarity. Off-white head atop is medium-sized and shows moderate retention.
Wood tannin, very soft cedar and mild brett also give way to about as soft an acetic character as I can imagine. Plentiful esters brighten things, adding ripe, red berry notes as well as red apple and light cherry. Black pepper is strong too, with a touch of malt breadiness, very dry caramel and hints of honey-vanilla. Incredible balance of malt, acid, ester and wood, with absolutely no aggressivity at this point. Hard to believe it’s 8.5% abv, as it smells like a 5%-er. Elegant and mellow, with a good mix of sour red and even Biere de Garde-like elements.
Incredibly mellow in the mouth, as well, with an even wood tannin that adds softness and body. Light fruit esters, hints of cola and cherry, with moderately tart brett on the finish, adding lime and guava but being softened by vanilla-honey-like malts and peppery phenols. Really, really even, mild, nicely-blended/aged stuff. Low but tight carbonation tickles the palate. Fantastic, as usual, from Oxbow.