Beer Works Mysterian (Brett version)
Beerworks in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.24
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8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Many, many draught tulips at Fenway locale on 7/31/07
Neat, small, white head is well-retained, especially for this brewpub, which usually has some retention/lacing problems. Body is a moderately hazy, golden delicious apple yellow, with strong gold tints.
Lovely lilac and wildflower hoppiness in the nose peppered by light phenols and some pear skin and other esters. Pronounced, but yet soft and elegant. Medium high strength of aroma.
Spicy golding hops are very fresh and flavorful, peppering the palate with vivid allusions to Orval. The brett slowly inserts itself towards the finish, following a very clean, moderately sweet pale maltiness and adds a strong layer of tartness that really helps clear the palate on the end. Pear skins, limes, honey, wildflowers and white pepper phenols all swirl about as the luscious liquid sits on the palate. For a draught beer, the carbonation is fairly engaging, though the bubbles are a bit too large and it does create a little bit of looseness/flabbiness. Malts feel about on par with an aged Orval, having a touch of paperiness to them, but otherwise still retaining the balancing sweetness. Very, very hoppy, but never bitter hoppy. Tons of brett and with a vivid lilac telltale Orval signature that only Goldings and Brett mixed together can provide. Not Orval, but damn near close.
I didnt find the base beer, when I had it last about 3 years ago, to be as riveting, but that could be a lot of things, and indeed I can only judge what I’m tasting here. Though with that in mind, and having only had this one batch, I probably am not giving it as high a rating as it deserves, as I still wonder about the consistency of producing this beer. There’s a big difference between producing a highly successful Orval clone and producing Orval year-after-year (which certainly has its consistency problems as well).
Draught again, Canal St location with Duff on 8/31/07
Unfortunately, either the keg was all churned up, or we got the bottom of it. Unsettled, very muddy pour and all of the yeast and other sediment dulled the aroma and caused dirty notes in the flavor. Still pretty damned good, but no where near what it was fresh and much less muddy when I had it at Fenway. I’ll still keep my rating from that one, but if I rated this sample, it would be more like a 7/3/7/4/13
Neat, small, white head is well-retained, especially for this brewpub, which usually has some retention/lacing problems. Body is a moderately hazy, golden delicious apple yellow, with strong gold tints.
Lovely lilac and wildflower hoppiness in the nose peppered by light phenols and some pear skin and other esters. Pronounced, but yet soft and elegant. Medium high strength of aroma.
Spicy golding hops are very fresh and flavorful, peppering the palate with vivid allusions to Orval. The brett slowly inserts itself towards the finish, following a very clean, moderately sweet pale maltiness and adds a strong layer of tartness that really helps clear the palate on the end. Pear skins, limes, honey, wildflowers and white pepper phenols all swirl about as the luscious liquid sits on the palate. For a draught beer, the carbonation is fairly engaging, though the bubbles are a bit too large and it does create a little bit of looseness/flabbiness. Malts feel about on par with an aged Orval, having a touch of paperiness to them, but otherwise still retaining the balancing sweetness. Very, very hoppy, but never bitter hoppy. Tons of brett and with a vivid lilac telltale Orval signature that only Goldings and Brett mixed together can provide. Not Orval, but damn near close.
I didnt find the base beer, when I had it last about 3 years ago, to be as riveting, but that could be a lot of things, and indeed I can only judge what I’m tasting here. Though with that in mind, and having only had this one batch, I probably am not giving it as high a rating as it deserves, as I still wonder about the consistency of producing this beer. There’s a big difference between producing a highly successful Orval clone and producing Orval year-after-year (which certainly has its consistency problems as well).
Draught again, Canal St location with Duff on 8/31/07
Unfortunately, either the keg was all churned up, or we got the bottom of it. Unsettled, very muddy pour and all of the yeast and other sediment dulled the aroma and caused dirty notes in the flavor. Still pretty damned good, but no where near what it was fresh and much less muddy when I had it at Fenway. I’ll still keep my rating from that one, but if I rated this sample, it would be more like a 7/3/7/4/13
Tried
from Can
on 30 Aug 2007
at 16:39