SPON Cab Franc & Zinfandel
(has 1 batch)
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Fruit Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.68
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2019 SPON — Cab Franc & Zinfandel is a blend of two year old and three year old 100% spontaneously fermented beer, refermented with two varietals of Texas-grown wine grapes. Cab Franc in particular has become one of our favorite wine grapes to work with for its rich dark fruit flavors.
We received the grapes at Jester King last summer, crushed and de-stemmed them, and added them to the blend of SPON. After three months of refermentation, the blend reached total dryness. We then racked the blend off the fruit and into bottles and kegs for natural refermentatation.
We received the grapes at Jester King last summer, crushed and de-stemmed them, and added them to the blend of SPON. After three months of refermentation, the blend reached total dryness. We then racked the blend off the fruit and into bottles and kegs for natural refermentatation.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
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Tried
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a clear, peachy amber. Small to no white head. Scent is heavy grape focussed, but not overkill. Smooth and balanced. Earthy fruityness. Harsh, herbaceous almost. Taste is sharp, pretty straight forward tartness , lactic acid, but it does work very well with the fruit. Dry , spicy / herbaceous / twigs, lovely fine summer ale for a summer day. As a lambic - minded beer it could be a bit more complex on the acidity, but as an AmLam , it's pretty good indeed.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2023
at 14:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours a clear amber with aromas of red wine, barnyard, and cherry, well balanced and tart. The taste is crisp, dry, and with notes of red grape, watermelon, and floral.
Tried
on 28 Sep 2020
at 15:43
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Kenny. It pours clear pink - red with a decent foamy white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, floral, zingy, red grape, jammy, juniper, redcurrant, Turkish delight and watermelon. The taste is crisp, dry, tart, puckering, zingy, watermelon, jammy, red grape, minerality, zingy, floral, light acidity, pithy citrus, watermelon, sherbet and light tannin with a drying finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Lovely stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2020
at 11:50
9/10
Intense funkiness on the nose, strong wine notes, balanced and clean with a slight dryness on the finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2020
at 20:09