Black Room, Blue Phone
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Capitola, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.23
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750 ml bottle. The beer is very dark brown with a small tan head. Nice fresh blueberry flavor on top of nutty caramel malt. Pretty big wine barrel flavor. Good bit of red wine with some grape sweetness. Mild to moderate lacto sour flavor. Cherry, apricot, a little cocoa powder, mild lemon. Nice stuff with a gentle aroma. Taste is mildly tart with more fruit than expected. Good amount of barrel presence again. Not as dry as expected, though not sweet either. Cherry, blueberry, red wine, oak. Mild roast fruitiness. Very well executed balance of flavors. Light on the palate, not too much pucker. I didn’t try this beer fresh, but I’m quite liking it with a few months of age.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home. It pours a very dark brown color with a small, fizzy light brown head. The aroma is very vinous with red wine, hints of cocoa, tobacco and background hints of sweet blueberries. The flavor is very sour and vinous with more spoiled red wine, blueberries, tobacco and light cocoa. The blueberries are there, but they’re mostly overpowered by the roasted malt and strong acid. Some hints of roasted bitterness near the finish. The strong acidic nature of the beer makes it a little hard to drink with the roasted malt, but it’s subtle enough not to clash too much. Even so, it’s just a tad on the acetic side for me. Overall, a fun beer, but I had a hard time drinking the whole bottle myself.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Chow. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head. The aroma is berry, oak, lacto. Medium body, tart berry, oak tannin, nice tartness, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is malt forward with quite a bit of chocolate and some lighter roast notes. Moderate fruit notes with blueberry and some lighter cherry and prune notes. Light wine barrel notes with some red wine character. Light to faint citrus notes. Pours black with a medium large, thick, creamy, mocha head that slowly recedes. Moderately high lacing and small legs. Flavor is moderately acidic, more than I was expecting from the aroma. Medium roast notes with balanced, but lighter chocolate character and cracker. Medium bitterness. Moderate blueberry notes with some lighter cherry, raisin and prune notes. Some light oak notes with a light red wine character. Hints of the alcohol. Lingering roast, acidity and berries in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a decent dark sour and it gets more chocolatey and the acidity is less pronounced. Nice, balanced blueberry notes with some light oak and red wine.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap. Pours quite hazy chestnut, small beige head, decent lacing. Aroma is roasty and tart, hints of acetone. Flavor is medium tart, roasty, hints of vanilla, lemon. Not getting much berry. Medium body. Solid sour Porter.