Crossover Blendery Red Blais - 2022

Red Blais - 2022

 

Crossover Blendery in Weston, Hertfordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production
Score
7.34
ABV: 5.7% IBU: - Ticks: 7
A blend of 2 year golden ales brewed with malted barley and raw wheat. Spontaneously fermented and aged in neutral French oak barrels . Refermented on Blaisdon Red plums from Gloucestershire and organic Driscoll Maravilla raspberries from Herefordshire. Finished with whole pod Madagascan Bourbon vanilla.
 

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

Draft, half pint. @Cork and Cage, Birmingham (UK). 18/02/2023 [#5.936 Global - #702 England - #7 Crossover Blendery] Pours pale red with a lacing head. Aroma: elderflower, red fruits, and plums. Taste: tart plums, wild berries and wine barrels. Very good. Next one please!

Tried from Draft on 14 Mar 2023 at 09:07


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Cork and Cage, Stirchley, 18/02/23. Cherry red/Plummy looking with a crimson cap. Nose is tangy berry skins, vanilla oak, funk, damp hay, berry pips. Taste comprises plum, raspberry yoghurt, funk, damp cloth, more vanilla oak notes, hay bale, dusty red berries. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a tarte puckering close. Decent kit.

Tried on 13 Mar 2023 at 12:53


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at The Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Cloudy reddish orange pour with a white head. Nose is red fruits, plum jam, oak. Taste is tart red fruits, strawberry sherbet, oak, more plum jam. Quite salty. Jammy sour fruity finish.

Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2023 at 19:19


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

On tap at The Low Key Taproom Ashford cloudy red orange colour lasting white pink head. Attractive fruit sour aroma. Decent raspberry flavour. Some plums. Some sweet plums. Slight sour aroma. I thought pretty good and authentic fruit sour lambic like. Its actually pretty good.

Tried from Draft on 24 Feb 2023 at 17:01


7

Tried from Draft on 18 Feb 2023 at 14:32


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at Cork and caged. A hazed pinkish plum coloured pour with a fine pinkish head. Aroma is sour, funky fruits, prickly red berries, cranberry, sour funk, lacto. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, tart red berries, cranberry, lactose sweetness, pithy finish. Palate is semi sweet, tart, prickly, highish fine carbonation. Ok.

Tried from Draft on 18 Feb 2023 at 14:12


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

Keg at the Bohemia beer market - Hackney. Pours lightly hazed red with a bubbly, pink head. Lightly acidic with nice, true raspberry notes, subtle vanilla, a little funk, tangy plum. Light to medium bodied with delicate carbonation. Ran finish, lightly drying, more tart raspberry, nips of seeds. Very nice.

Tried on 16 Dec 2022 at 20:27