Blended 2023
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Gueuze Series Out of Production|
Score
7.48
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Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Blended 2023 from Side Project Brewing 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375mL bottle, as pictured, drunk 11/7/25.
Bright, juicy, funky with tons and tons of complex Brett. Plentiful barnyard is endearing. Oaky, but not too much so, with nutty wheat and stronger lactic elements, but no acetic. Very clean (clean as in not muddled. Not clean as in lack of funk), clear, focused nose.
Nice and malty with round oak and an excellent balance of Brett and lacto, the former being stronger, yielding vibrant fruits and notes of slight horse blanket, old leather and slight medicine. Just tending slightly sour, but never too much so. No cringing finish or enamel stripping here. Oak is round and Brett is vivaciously fruity.
It's weird to me that SP can quite readily make these really amazing lambic-like sours, and yet still chooses to make a bunch of enamel-stripping mega-acidic, sometimes acetic-bomb sours. This right here is better than at least half of the lambic producers in Belgium. They should really lean in to this.
bkbergen (9279) ticked Blended 2023 from Side Project Brewing 1 year ago
explosivedog (14050) reviewed Blended 2023 from Side Project Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, courtesy of Ryan. Pours deep gold. Funk, minerally, plum, tangerine, lemon juice, grapefruit peel, umeboshi, minerally, pickle juice, pear. Nice spritz. Excellent.