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 - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle at Cotteridge Meet Up 2023. Thank you Chris. Hazy amber colour no head. Sour aroma. Lovely plum flavour. Really good. Liked that a lot . Like fruit juice. Some sourness on the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2023 at 15:19


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Not Cotts 23. Aroma is dry and sour. Vinous. Earthy. Opaque amber. No head. Medium sour. Dry. Vinous. Sherbert. Light. Thin. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish. Refreshing.

Tried on 08 Jul 2023 at 15:15


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle sample at a tasting at Tom's place. Cloudy golden. Funky brett, oak, manure, fruitiness, citrus, sour, juicy. Great.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2022 at 20:05