Thornbridge Brewery Chula Vista

Chula Vista

 

Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
Score
6.79
ABV: 4.2% IBU: - Ticks: 14
Lemon & Sea Salt Sour

Chula Vista translates to ‘Cool View’ and is a town in California named for its beautiful location. In the early 1900s it was known as the ‘Lemon Capital of the World’ due to its fantastic climate for citrus growing. This seemed a perfect inspiration for our latest kettle sour, this time packed with luscious lemon and sea salt! Fantastically balanced with a tantalising zesty tang of fresh lemon, it is bright and invigorating, with a unique flavour profile which is sure to delight the senses and quench your thirst.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can, medium bubbly head, cloudy palish orange with yellow streaks, lots of lemon , shrubiness, medium vibrant sourness, with some saltiness and a hint of shrubby bitterness. Amazingly refreshing.

Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2024 at 12:24


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

Can at home in Hackney - picked up from the brewery online shop. Pours clear gold with a modest, foamy white head. Lightly sweet with lemony tartness, mellow acidity, soft salty bite. Light bodied with average carbonation. More citric-salty tang to finish, lightly drying. Nice overall.

Tried from Can on 24 Jan 2024 at 20:32


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg @ The Boot Micropub as part of our pre-Christmas tasting walkabout. Pours a misty golden yellow, thin white head. Aroma of lemon and pineapple, fresh, sour. Initial sweet burst on the palate, notes of Robinson's fruit juice, hints of pineapple, quite zesty with a light lick of sea salt rounding things off. Pretty good.

Tried on 20 Dec 2023 at 18:58


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Tap at Beer Hunters. Cloudy orange colour and small white head. Salty, lemony aroma. Light-bodied. Lime, salt, tartness, pale malts. Simplish.

Tried from Draft on 28 Nov 2023 at 16:07


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Euston Tap, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma is full of lemon and salt indeed, with some lacto in back. Flavour is tangy and salty, with lots of lemon-lime soda, intense salt, and gentle tartness. Extremely light on the palate. Not seeing the point of this.

Tried from Draft on 02 Nov 2023 at 13:15


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle picked from Beyond Beer webshop Hamburg and consumed at home Sunday 15th October in the company of Craig and Stella. We've just been out for a short drive to our local Gasthof zum Sonnenwald and an old brewery (no longer brews) in Renting, listening to Deus - The Ideal Crash. Pours hazy dull silvery gold with a fast disappearing white head. Some zippy citrus, tart, tangy and with a nice sour edge. Refreshing beer, I like it though in truth would work better in the summer months.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2023 at 14:40


7

can at Fins... Light hazy yellow amber.. small white head.. Bright zezty lemon citrus nose.. juicy sharp tart zezty lime citrus.. big salty lime finish

Tried from Can on 15 Oct 2023 at 14:38


7

440ml can from Thornbridge Beer Club - slightly foggy yellow body with a short white top. Nose is fresh lemon, a little bit herbal. Taste goes in like a gose, a bit salty, freshened up with the lemon zest. Classy effort is this.

Tried from Can on 29 Sep 2023 at 19:26


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

14th September 2023
Can. A light haze on this yellow gold beer, small white head. Palate is light and fairly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Thin malts provide a very modest amount of sweetness. Decent lemon, kinda Schwepsy homemade lemonade thang. Modest salinity. Light semi dry finish. Simple stuff but done well, pretty drinkalble.

Tried from Can on 14 Sep 2023 at 22:37


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at GBBF'23, day two, 02/08/23. Almost clear golden blonde with white head. Nose is citric tinged straw, light herb, soapy notes, grains, lemon rind. Taste comprises grains, cereals, corn husk, lemon tinged straw, hedgerow, light salt kiss. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a modest puckering edge. So so.

Tried on 01 Sep 2023 at 16:33