Brew and Destroy
Free Will Brewing Company in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
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7.24
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Brew and Destroy from Free Will Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sour ale with blueberries, bottle at Uncle Babe’s in Gent shared with Ster; apparently a collab with Hof ten Dormaal, though no mention of that seems to be made here in the information given above. Pale beige, lightly lacing head, dissolving in the middle but leaving a steady moussy rim around the edge; very dark burgundy-hued bronze robe. Aroma of spicy-and-sourish blueberries indeed, on top of an array of impressions; moldy hazelnut, passion fruit, red wine, butterscotch, sour cherries, balsamico, old dry sherry, pear peel, moldy acorns, hay. Lots of fruit tartness in the onset, actual blueberry juice mixed with impressions of pear and redcurrant, some very light banana sweetish echo hidden in the background, balsamic-like sourness but not too puckering, medium carbo. The sourness is beautifully softened not just by fruity flavors but also by a ’moelleux’, caramelly and bready malt sweet core deep in the bowels of this beer, providing a firm structure supporting the drying sourness. As with so many red wine BA beers, the tart, deep, coarsening red wine flavor shows up all the way at the back, after and in between lingering fruit acidity, remainders of the softish malt sweet backbone and some drying tannins. Very elegant, modern era American sour of profoundly Flemish signature; many ’oud bruin’ (Flemish sour ale) interpretations by present-day craft breweries lack a bit in balance, malt support and finesse, but this one has it all. Pleasantly surprised.
Fin (18271) reviewed Brew and Destroy from Free Will Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie, Saturday 7th January 2017 sat in living room with Loz and Isobel. Pours dark brown in colour with some ruby red sparkles. Fruity, woody and tart with a shedload of bramble berry flavours. Really tangy and a good mouth awakener, dry finish. Good. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov16 3.6
ben4321 (11441) reviewed Brew and Destroy from Free Will Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Blind Tiger. Brian pour with a small head. Red wine and oak, some funk. Drinks on the sour side for sure. Tart and vinous. Nicely done.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Draft at the brewery, in a snifter. Dark red brown, medium body. Red wine aroma and tart combination of grape, blueberry taste. Nice sour blueberry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
@ LIBF 2016. Sour nose, vinous, oak. Some fruitiness from the berries. Well balanced. Nice beer.
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Brew and Destroy from Free Will Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark red brown colour with no head. Aroma of sour fruits. Strong blueberry flavour. Mix of sweet and sour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ LIBF’16. Shared with the RB Belgian team. Brune, col fin beige, blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez finement fruité tirant sur le rouge et noir, retrouve qcq effluves de barrique de vin rouge avec un petit rétro de malt grillé qui tranche bien avec le fruité. Pas spécialement noté les blueberries, mais je retrouve un petit côté presque vieille brune. Palais est finement aigre rappelant ici mes dires de l’arôme avec un profil de oude bruin. Malt plaisant tirant sur biscuité voire Speculoos, léger côté boisé de foudre. Léger funk, fruité rouge de vin mais un rappel presque de griotte dans l’acidité. Ici aussi, je note peu l’effet blueberries.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Brew and Destroy from Free Will Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
F: off-white to light pink, not big, quick gone. C: brown to dark, opaque. A: sour, lambic, blueberries, cherries, basement, hint of sweet chocolate. T: almost the same as in aroma, medium body, good carbonation, sample @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival May 2016.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Brew and Destroy from Free Will Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Free Will Brew and Destroy (by Free Will Brewing Company):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
16/V/16 - sample @ Leuven Innovation - BB: n/a (2016-555) Thanks to the Belgian RB crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear deep purple brown beer, small aery irregular beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, sourish, red wine vinegar, earthy, smoky touch, some tobacco leaves. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sour start, fruity, red currants, cherries, red forest fruits, cranberries, nice stuff! Aftertaste: sourish, earthy, somewhat bitter, lots of red currants.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Deep red beer with a head for 2 full seconds. Vinous, red berries, fruitwine, chocolate, Be pralines with fruit-filling. Again very vinous in the mouth, red wine, fruit, quite tart finish. Dry, dry-out effect to some extent. Medium bodied, acidthinning notwithstanding. Very good, even if the wine dominates maybe a tad too much.