Nickel Brook Brewing Co. Uncommon Element

Uncommon Element

 

Nickel Brook Brewing Co. in Burlington, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
7.30
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 18
It often takes a truly amazing event to create something new. In science, for example, it takes a Supernova to create the heavier chemical elements. In the Funk Lab, our team of brewers decided to use Brettanomyces yeast as a catalyst for creating our "Uncommon Element Brett Pale Ale". A light malt base and the abundance of Hallartau Blanc and Mosaic hops, combined with the Brett Drie, give this beer a beautiful flavour and aroma of tropical and stone fruits, with a funk backbone. This beer may be uncommon, but we hope not for long!
 

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

375ml bottle. Barely clear, golden colour with delayed chippy, average, foamy, beaten egg white-like, mostly lasting, minimally lacing, snow-white head. Bretty aroma with moderate funkiness, Hubba Bubba bubblegum "fruitiness" and sweet(-ish)-ness, floral notes, a touch of powdered sugar. Taste is tart-ish, dry, mildly funky, bretty, some residual, biscuity, pale malty sweetness with a touch of sugar powder and floral overtones, some hop bitterness; overall mild, light and close to watery. Appropriate to chum up with brett on a rather low-level entry, surely reducing the danger of prompt deterrence.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2018 at 22:49


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

Bouteille de 375 ml. Olfactif floral avec les Bretts tout en sourdine. Du poivre, des herbes, de la muscade, du litchi rendent cet olfactif extrêmement complexe. Mousse blanche pétillante et rocailleuse sur liquide voilé doré. Bonne tenue. Équilibre des Bretts, des épices et des fruits en entrée de bouche. Finale herbacée discrète. Les notes sont surtout tropicales avec mangue et litchi, un peu de pamplemousse, du poivre. Effervescence active, corps moyen. Interprétation originale et plutôt fruitée du style. Excellente.

Tried on 30 Nov 2017 at 16:13


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

Bottle from the LCBO. Lightly hazed pale gold with a one finger slow fading white head. Nose has some light lemon, lime, melon, pineapple, honey, light Brett funk, grass and light peach. Flavour follows with a light honey and fruit sweetness, a medium- tropical fruit bitterness, and subdued Brett tartness adding some complexity. Mouth is medium with prickly carbonation and a lightly sticky finish. Quite nice. 8/3+/7/4/15

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2017 at 18:41


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

Bottle, 375 ml at Svijet Piva, courtesy of JFK10000 and rest of the crew. Pours cloudy golden with medium white head. Some hops in aroma, light fruit, brett, spicy, yeasty. Moderate dry bitterness in finish. Light to medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle at Svijet Piva on 24 Sep 2017 at 12:03


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled 375ml. -Courtesy of franski, shared with him and several others. Unclear yellow coloured, medium sized white head, Brett in the nose. The taste is spicy hoppy, light herbal, bit perfumed and mild yeasty with usual Brett signature. Not bad but stereotype and boring.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2017 at 18:21


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

Bouteille 375ml, gracieuseté de msjpearson, Thanks Mike! Couleur jaune-orangée voilée, mousse blanche aérée. Arôme de Brett, citron confit, malt pâle, poivre noir, levure, zeste de citron. Goût de citron, Brett, malt, un peu poivré, amertume faible, houblon herbal. Carbonatation élevée, corps moyen.

Tried on 04 Sep 2016 at 23:28


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

Bottle - Nice tropical fruity and Brett notes. Cloudy yellow gold with a rich white head. Light lemon, orange and Brett notes with a bone dry finish. This is quite nice and the brett adds a very nice fruitiness without too much funk. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2016 at 06:34


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Enjoyed at Brother’s Beer bistro. Pours a golden clean colour with a warm cap, average stay and creamy lacing. Belgian Ale yeast smell with the sweetness, fruitiness and mild Brett. The taste is hoppy bitter, but not crazy dry. Fruity and grassy in the finish. The is a pretty nice pale ale with Belgian Ale notes.

Tried on 08 Jun 2016 at 22:46