Batch 50 G.F.A.R.
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Gueuze Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.36
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Sour Ale Aged in Oak Barrels
In January of 2009, a homebrewer and microbiologist named Al Buck won our Batch #50 homebrew contest with his incredibly complex gueuze-style ale. We knew this beer wouldn’t be easy to re-create, but the perfect layers of classic barnyard funk and lactic sourness were impossible to resist. Nearly 3 years later, after brewing the beer once in 2009 and a second batch in 2010, after adding various strains of wild yeasts and bacteria to the barrels and the bottles, after blending multiple batches back together and well beyond our release of Batch #300, we’re finally prepared to release Batch #50 – Grand Funk Aleroad. Brewed in the classic Belgian Gueuze tradition of barrel aging and blending multiple vintages of lambic-style ale, Batch #50 is one of the most rewarding beers we’ve ever had the opportunity to brew.
In January of 2009, a homebrewer and microbiologist named Al Buck won our Batch #50 homebrew contest with his incredibly complex gueuze-style ale. We knew this beer wouldn’t be easy to re-create, but the perfect layers of classic barnyard funk and lactic sourness were impossible to resist. Nearly 3 years later, after brewing the beer once in 2009 and a second batch in 2010, after adding various strains of wild yeasts and bacteria to the barrels and the bottles, after blending multiple batches back together and well beyond our release of Batch #300, we’re finally prepared to release Batch #50 – Grand Funk Aleroad. Brewed in the classic Belgian Gueuze tradition of barrel aging and blending multiple vintages of lambic-style ale, Batch #50 is one of the most rewarding beers we’ve ever had the opportunity to brew.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sourness, brett, berries, lemon. Flavour is sourness, brett, berries, lemon, spices. Nice/OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2014
at 12:55
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml.Clear medium orange colour with a small, open, virtually none head. Aroma is light malty, moderate to light heavy leather, baking yeast, oak, light wood. Flavour is moderate sweet with a long duration, sweet malt, baking yeast, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20131122]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2013
at 10:41
8/10
Tried
on 02 Dec 2013
at 08:02
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Scooper Tasting in Ulfborg. Pours hazy yellow with dirty brown sediment and quickly vanishing white head. Clear, vinous aroma. Sour and vinous taste with faint notes of malt. Sourish aftertaste. Decent but tastes more of an unblended lambic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 750ml @ fonefan
Pours slightly hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma has notes of malt, vinegar, citrus and funk. Taste is light sweet and light to medium sour with a long dry and sour finish. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
Pours slightly hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma has notes of malt, vinegar, citrus and funk. Taste is light sweet and light to medium sour with a long dry and sour finish. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ Invasion U.S.A, Ulfborg 2013. Pours hazy yellow with a small off white head, Crisp and funky. Tart and dry. Woody. Brett. Dry finish . .
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear golden with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity, white wine, citrus and barnyard. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. 221113
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 75cl. It pours a lighlty hazy golden body and a small, dense, off-white head. The aroma is quite weak, with some funk and lemon. A bit weak I think, and that goes for the flavor too. Some faint spiced hints. Medium body, dry and with a pleasant level of carbonation. Ligthly spiced and mostly fruity, lemony finish. Nice, indeed, but lacking the complexity of a genuine geuze. 131122
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Clear golden with tiny white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, baking yeast and oak. Flavour is malt, yeast, oak, baking, yeast, sour, wood, little acetone and medium dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Ulfborg weekend celebration of nothing in particular. Aroma of American oak, some funk, yeast, vinegar and grapefruit. Sweetish, tart flavour with fruit and lots of oak.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2013
at 14:08