Riserva
Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.17
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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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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Cloudy pink color, huge raspberry and oaky nose. Somewhat sour. Well balanced, fairly, acidic, raspberries, oaky. Huge in flavor, well balanced. Huge oaky pepper finish. Beyond beautiful.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2010
at 14:31
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy amber-red with a light, white head. Aroma of tart berries and light malts. Flavor is very sweet and fruity, with considerable tartness, and quite strong overall. Lightly funky, too. Medium bodied with fine carbonation and somewhat warming. Finishes pretty dry with tartness. Very good. (August 2010, Score: 3.9)
Bottle shared at the RBESG 2014 London Sunday Tasting - Craft Beer Co. Clerkenwell. Pours cloudy pink with a white cream top. Nice, super tart and acetic, lightly sweet, with some bitter berry pits. Light bodied with average carbonation. A little jammy to finish with more sour bite and burn. Good stuff. (August 2014, Score: 3.7)
Bottle shared at the RBESG 2014 London Sunday Tasting - Craft Beer Co. Clerkenwell. Pours cloudy pink with a white cream top. Nice, super tart and acetic, lightly sweet, with some bitter berry pits. Light bodied with average carbonation. A little jammy to finish with more sour bite and burn. Good stuff. (August 2014, Score: 3.7)
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2010
at 07:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750 mL bottle courtesy of maniac. Thanks! 2008 Vintage. Sampled at the 11th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering, 4/17/10. Pours a deep purple color, hazy, with nearly no head. Aroma of tart berry notes with a very mild funk. The taste is berry notes, some sugar, very faint funk, caramel and a faint bit of a bandaid quality. Tart throughout. Medium bodied. Decent, but not as good as I was hoping for.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2010
at 21:30
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a dirty and cloudy reddish color ale with a small bubbly head with minimal retention and not much lacing. Aroma of gross funky notes and lightly sweet and somewhat tart raspberry is pleasant but gets gross with the weird funky notes. Taste is also a strange mix between some nice tart raspberry notes with just enough sweetness too offset the acidity but the weird barnyard notes are not that pleasant. Body is quite full with limited filtration and medium carbonation with no apparent alcohol. I very much anticipated tasting this one but must admit being disappointed after all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2010
at 19:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thanks to Cletus for this one. Comes in a Belgian style 750. Dated 2009. Pours a nice ruddy copper with a temporary white head. Nice aroma of lightly sour cherry. If I try hard, I get raspberry. Medium body with decent carbonation. Flavor is medium sour, and now raspberry. The oak comes out as the raspberry leaves. It is a really good ale. Drinks a treat.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2009
at 18:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from a 750 ml brown bottle this beer poured an opaque and murky red ochre color with a large pink head that faded quickly. The aroma was tart, bitter, fruity, yeasty and a bit funky. The flavor was dry, tart and sour with a moderate dry berry note and a funky, yeasty and vinegary undertone. Somewhat thick and chunky. Not really my style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2009
at 14:44
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pink. Raspberry aroma and medicinal, cough syrup raspberry flavor. It has potential, but definitely needs refinement. Sour it ain’t.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2009
at 21:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at RBESG 09 Sheffield. Raspberry farmyard aroma. Cloudy brown red colour. A bit like Liefmans framboise I guess. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2009
at 01:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 2007 vintage Pours out a old rusty red topped with bubble filled head. Aroma of raspberries and a nice tart. Taste more of the tart berries along with a nice vanilla oak to round it off. Thanks ditmier
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2009
at 22:48
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Vintage 2010. Pours ruby into a snifter. Sour cherry aromas. Tart cherry, raspberry, and blackberry. Lasting super tart oak finish. Vintage 2008. Pours dark blood orange into a tumbler. White head quickly recedes to hug rim and roil surface. Tart sour raspberry aromas. Sweet raspberry upfront turning to sour oak in the lasting pinot finish. 7/4/8/4/14=3.8
Tried
on 04 Sep 2009
at 17:15