Trial & Ale Brewing Robert

Robert

 

Trial & Ale Brewing in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
Score
7.05
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 15 Ticks: 13
Very rarely do we name a beer in such a direct way, we generally prefer references to descriptors. Over the long process of developing all of our blends from brew to barrel to bottle to label, we generally “discover” the names of our blends when we refer to them throughout the entirety of the blend production through internal references made, tasting notes, anecdotes, etc. In every step of the development of this wild blend, “Blood Orange Brett” was eventually shortened to “Bob,” which inevitably had some formality added back to it to become “Robert.” We find the interplay between our Brett cultures and blood orange difficult to define a cutoff between the flavours. Of all the citrus fruits in the realm of possibility, blood orange is definitely the most “wild” among them. This lack of a rigid structure and flavour disambiguation speaks to the inherent pairing abilities of our Brett cultures’ earthiness and the citric tang native to blood orange. Of note is that this is a wild blend, not sour, which highlights the wild funk creating properties of our cultures, while maintaining a slight fruit derived tartness and beer structure.
 

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

750 ml bottle. Pours a dull amber with little head. Aromas of musty grapes, earthy fruit and heavy wheaty malts. Flavors of Brett, tart orange, earthy fruit and more heavy wheaty malts. Nice mix.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2025 at 02:41


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

[notes] Poured from bottle @ FHF 2023 (Aug 12, 2023). Clear gold with no head. Mild citrus and brett funk, okay.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2025 at 07:40


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour blood orange aroma. Fruity sour tart bretty blood orange flavor. Has a fruity sour tart bretty blood orange finish.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jan 2024 at 16:12


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

Slight haze. Pale amber. Light body. Juicy character, I imagine from the blood orange. Better than the Russian River beer of the same name that I had a couple of weeks ago.

Tried on 16 Aug 2023 at 04:10


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2023, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out rustic saison yeast, wood, and earthiness. Flavour is moderately tart, with oak, rustic saison yeast, and earthiness. A bit messy, finishing sour and earthy. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2023 at 06:45


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

A taster shared with Josh, Matt, Phill, and Ryan during FHF with priceless Rachel's (yup, again!) help in organizing all the mess with glasses. Appearance: almost clear golden with a white head. Aroma: funky, a bit crispy, fruity. Taste: same. Overall: good.

Tried on 12 Aug 2023 at 21:15


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

Bottle split at Tilt, Bingo-Cotts Convention, Thanks to Chris 08/07/23. Moderately hazed orange with an off white cap that thins edgewards. Nose is tangy fruit rinds, light brett, damp cloth, funky apricot, straw. Taste comprises fucked over peach, grains, herb, tannins, mellow acidic strains, lactic pinch. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light acidic close. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2023 at 13:42


4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 16

Bottle pour at Cotts Convention 2023 bottleshare, held at Tilt, Brum. Thanks Chris. Pours opaque amber gold with a few bubbles of white foam. Aroma: sour, funky, vinous, stone fruits. Taste: light to moderate sour tartness, light sharp, dry, prominently funky, plums, vinous, sherbet. Light to medium body with spritzy carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2023 at 21:27


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tried at the Not at Cotteridge share 2023 at Tilt Birmingham. Light hazed golden colour with a slight head. Titus and tart to slight sour with a dry finish. Medium body.

Tried on 08 Jul 2023 at 19:26


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at the cotteridge convention bottle share. Thanks to Mr pink. LIGHT HAZED orange coloured pour with a fading loose white head. Aroma is nice funk, white apple, Victoria plum. Mellow funk. Flavour is composed nice sharp, underripe, plum, jammy, sharp, clean lacto,. Palate is sharp, powdery carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2023 at 15:25