A Match Lit
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Capitola, California, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.21
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With a healthy respect for tradition we offer you A Match Lit, the first release of the 2016 SARA’s Cellar. This tart and sweet brown ale is buoyed by complex layering of pale, caramel, and specialty malts. After extensive again and conditioning, A Match Lit comes to you begging to be paired with homemade food and warm conversation. Sante!
Sara Cellar Release, 2016 Q1
Sara Cellar Release, 2016 Q1
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours clear ruby chestnut, small off white head, bubbly lacing. Aroma is roast, tannin, coffee, leather, cedar, earth. Flavor is surprisingly lightly tart, hint of bugs, tannins, faint cherry. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2021
at 02:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Thnx to FX . Pours dark redbrown, small white head. Smell is mild sourness, bit malty, an almost fleshy note. Taste is mildly astrigent. Some sour notes. Some dark malts, but no sweetness of them left. mild fruityness ( grape/cherrie notes) . OK
Tried
on 05 May 2017
at 14:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is fruity with lots of cherry, berry, cassis, plum and prune. Some nice caramel, toffee, toasted bread and hints of chocolate. Nice, light oak notes with hints of red wine. Pours a nice brown color with auburn and amber hues and a medium.sized, medium thick, dark tan head that recedes to the edges where it lingers. No lacing or legs. Flavor is somewhat sweet with a balanced acidity. Moderate malt notes with caramel, toasted bread, nuts, and light chocolate notes. Moderately strong fruit notes with raisin, cherry, berry, cassis, plum and prune. Some light oak and red wine notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a nice sour brown ale. Good malt and fruit notes from the yeast that balance each other nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2016
at 22:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours a dark amber with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is strong oak and fruity malt. Medium mouth, raisin, caramel, nice tartness, oak, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2016
at 18:40