Brett's Last Straw
Fiddlehead Brewing Company in Shelburne, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series Out of Production|
Score
7.13
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Growlette to becher pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy pink to slightly golden yellow/copper color along the sides with a finger’s worth of white foamy head. Slight strings of lace.
The aroma had some sweet and tart strawberry juice over top of the light \"tangy\" quality that I got in \"Brett on the Dancefloor\" base of sour lemon and orange rind.
The flavor took the sour to meld into the sweet to tart strawberry juiciness flowing nicely on into the aftertaste and finish.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Strawberry juiciness seemed to tame the \"sour\" harshness even more than regular \"Brett on the Dancefloor.\" Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt good too.
Overall, nice \"fruited\" sour, perhaps or just a nice fruit beer - I guess that’s what it was supposed to be, but whatever it was, it’s pretty damn good and definitely one to have again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at Row 34, 8/7/15.
Hazy pink-tinged-applesauce color with some deeper brass notes and good carbonation. White head is medium-sized and slowly recedes to cover.
Lovely, fresh, real, tart and juicy strawberries perk up immediately in the nose. Having had Brett on the Dance Floor quite recently (the base beer here), I can definitely say that while not necessarily an improvement, it certainly dosent bludgeon the brett elements to death, still allowing various lime and other acidic elements to escape. Malts are sparse but the beer dosent come off overdry or astringent. Alcohol not noted, nor any flaws.
The strawberries, again, are quick to come on in flavor. Starts out with a very strong fruit-derived acidity that gives way to light fruit sugars and finally some honey-like base malts on the finish. Quite dry overall, with bright, warm strawberry notes wrapped about all aspects of the flavor here. A bit of funkiness is felt, especially with warming, though it’s not even clear if it’s the brett or the strawberries. Really nice job on the fruit, and if you take this as a refreshing fruit beer (which I think is what is intended) and not some ultra complex sour/wild ale, it works marvelously. The fruit helps mask the heavy breadiness of the base beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light grassy hops, light berries and Brett , pleasant. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with light strawberry, light Brett, grassy hops, light mineral notes, pleasant. On tap at brewery.