Riserva
(has 8 batches)
Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.31
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Over a year in the making, this American Wild Ale is fermented with Brettanomyces yeast and aged with red-raspberry puree in Oak barrels for over 1 year, then bottle conditioned in champagne bottles.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at DCLawyer’s sour tasting. 2016 vintage. Orange color. Aromas of raspberries. Tastes of tart acidic notes, raspberries and berries. Light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2017
at 19:20
9/10
Super sour and super raspberry.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2017
at 00:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours cloudy reddish amber with small foamy off-white head, funky raspberry aroma, high carbonation, tart berry taste with strong Brett and woodsy flavor, thin body, long tart finish. Complex and enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2017
at 10:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lots of natural raspberry here. Aroma’s raspberry of course burnt toast and a little perfume. Flavor’s like nose, massive raspberry fairly dry, more tart with just the barest hint of sweet and some bitter.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2017
at 00:44
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
2012 version. Pours dark amberred, no real foam. Smell is milksourbacteria, oak, fruityness. Taste is intense sour ( milksour) strog oak aspects. Rather intense fruityness. Nice and intense, but not a very complex selection of bacteria, nor a balanced sourness.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2016
at 09:01
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml bottle into tulip glass; 2015 vintage, bottled in 12/2015. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy ruby red/orange-ish color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of huge sour raspberry, cherry, cranberry, lemon, green apple, red wine, fruit skin, leather, hay, straw, musty funk, pepper, and toasted oak; with lighter notes of vanilla, brown/candi sugar, vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, raspberries, oak barrel, and light-moderate malt notes; with great strength. Taste of huge sour raspberry, cherry, cranberry, lemon, green apple, red wine, fruit skin, leather, hay, straw, musty funk, pepper, and toasted oak; with lighter notes of vanilla, brown/candi sugar, vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Good amount of fruit/acidic sourness and yeast/tannic oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of sour raspberry, cherry, cranberry, lemon, green apple, red wine, fruit skin, leather, hay, straw, musty funk, pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, raspberries, oak barrel, and light-moderate malt flavors; with nice malt/sour/spiciness balance, with no astringent flavors after the finish. Good dryness from acidity/spiciness as well. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, acidic/tannic, and lightly creamy/grainy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an outstanding fruited sour ale. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, raspberries, oak barrel, and light-moderate malt flavors; very smooth to sip on for the big ABV and acidity. This is nearly puckering on sourness, but has just enough malt character to keep it from getting astringent. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2016
at 20:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 750ml au Mondial 2016. Couleur orange brûlé voilée, anneau de mousse beige. Arôme de framboise, boisé, champignon, levure sauvage. Goût de framboise, champignon, boisé, acidité très élevée. Carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2016
at 07:28
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle poured into a snifter. Aroma is raspberry, medium body, low carbonation, and very little lacing. Taste is raspberry and oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2016
at 20:18
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml bottle shared at a tasting. 2 years old. Seems to have aged perfectly. Filtered glowing orange-red-amber. Filmy, oily off-white head. Huge raspberry tones. Really awesome beer. Super pronounced sour raspberry. Unique sour raspberry bomb. Fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2015
at 00:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. No label taken - Pours reddish brown - Nose/taste of raspberry, oak, sour caramel, sour acid - medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2015
at 22:33