Wild Beer Co Coolship 2022

Coolship 2022
(Batch of Coolship)

 

Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production
Score
7.56
ABV: 7.7% IBU: - Ticks: 32
A Special Edition of our annual Coolship series in our new 500ml bottles. This single foudre Coolship sour has divine flavours of apricots and stone fruits. Cooled in shallow vats overnight to pick up the Westcombe microflora, this beer is a strong and complex spontaneous delight.
 

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8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Rating #8000. 750ml @ Phill's. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: funky, bugs, some minerals, a bit fruity. Taste: along the same lines, very bright and prominent. Overall: very nice, cool(ship) beer for an 8000 rating, thanks, Phill! 😊

Tried on 06 Jul 2023 at 03:26


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

The last of these sours (technically lambics because spontaneously fermented) produced by Wild Beer in an actual coolship – sadly this very distinct brewery, certainly in an English context, has meanwhile ceased brewing. Many thanks to Craftmember for sharing. Off-white, medium thick, opening and dissipating, loose head lacing in dots over a misty amber-tinged orange blonde beer with rosy hue. Aroma of unripe plum and unripe mandarin, sour grape, green gooseberry, overripe nectarine, redcurrant, sour yoghurt, some wood, some pineapple and even some peach. Crisply sour onset, bit lemony but not vinegary, rich in fruitiness with impressions of unripe stonefruit, redcurrant and gooseberry, with a certain peachy sweetness hidden within the tartness; softish carb, slick and vinous body. A layer of grapey juiciness from the (in this case Californian) wine barrel treatment lurks underneath the smooth, sour-bready and slenderly biscuity, even somewhat creamy cerealliness, dried by yoghurty sourness and ongoing fruity acidity. Clear oaky tannins in the end but remaining clean, sleek and focused on tart fruitiness, with sour grape, gooseberry, sour plum, redcurrant and even some unripe citrus lingering; a bitterish hop note pops up briefly but quickly resides again. ‘Basic’ for a sour ale, but simplicity is complicated in the mixed and spontaneous fermentation fields; Wild Beer managed to produce a perfectly balanced, easily drinkable, very elegant and very fruity sour here. Loved it.

Tried on 02 Jun 2023 at 12:51


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle - Pours a lightly hazed orange amber colour with a small off-white head that quickly settled. The aroma is tart fruit, damp straw and barnyard. A tart fruity taste, unripe stonefruit, green pears, lemony and woody flavours with a moderately sour fruity finish. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 14 May 2023 at 15:40


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Brewdog Paddington, 10/03/23. Golden orange with a moderate white covering. Nose is funk, lemon rind, herb, damp straw, grains, barnyard esters. Taste comprises green berry skins, dry rot, funk, lemon rind, olive stones, damp hay, hedgerow, vinous. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced acidic rise. Tidy easy drinking and well balanced sour.

Tried on 11 Mar 2023 at 15:52


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Shortlived, medium, white head over veiled, well-carbonated metallic orange beer. Sour, and a bit artificial (not disturbing), dry nose. Dry fruit, faintly vinous, welled sultanas. Sour, but with a lot of fruitsugars underneath. Again vinous. Dried apricots, dried strawberries in lemonjuice. Sour pineapple. Serious acidburn and -thinning, dry-out effect. Not very carbonated in the end. Nice, but - even when I'm very sorry to see this brewery gone - Wild Beer is just not in the league of players as Wild Creatures or Land & Labour, let alone the real lambic brewers. But it remains a fine beer.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2023 at 10:10


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Joe's. Pours hazy deep orange, nose is huge funk, oak, apricot, taste is similar, tart fruit, oak, zesty citrus.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2022 at 17:10


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500 ml bottle online from Wild Beer. Pours light hazed orange copper with a white cap. Aroma: sour stone fruits, peach, apricot, oaky, light funk. Taste: tart, light sharp stone fruits, quite juicy. Medium body with some carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2022 at 20:29


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Wild Beer online. Soft haze on a pale copper colour. Loose white foam is lasting and semi lacing. Nose has stone fruit esters. Pulped peach and nectarine. Wet oak. A little briny and mineraly. Taste is juicy and tart with a little stone fruit bitterness. Smooth and super juicy on the palate. Fine carbonation. Big juicy tart fruit finish. Might have to stockpile this one.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2022 at 21:24