Brettfest Of Champions

Tap @ Carnivale Brettanomyces. Blonde. Soft citric, floral aroma with soft bretty notes. Sour, lemony, bretty herbal flavor. Good.

Keg at Overworks launch. It pours cloudy bright golden with a medium white head. The aroma is big dirty barnyard vibes, loads of brett, slurry on a hot day, then the grape fruit kicks in a takes over, tangy, sherbet and must. The taste is crisp, dry, crazy tart, so much god damn grapefruit it hurts, tangy, sherbet, pithy, zesty, some minerality, chalkiness, some acidity, musty and funk with a firmly dry with tart grapefruit finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Bright and punchy. Works rather well IMO.

Draught @ IndeWildeman. Pale yellow, small white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, decently sour, lightly citrus peel but in a good way. Nice.

'Wild' ale by BrewDog Overworks - a separate production site owned by BrewDog designed to experiment with wild and mixed fermentation, set up at another location from the main brewery, in order to avoid infections with wild yeasts there (compare with Bruery's Terreux project). Draft at Wildeman, thanks Craftmember for sharing. Creamy, regularly shaped, lacing, dissipating head on a misty straw blonde beer with ochre-ish hue. Aroma teeming with a strong sulfuric stench (rotting egg, sewer water and rotting cabbage), overpowering more flattering notes of unripe yellow plum, green banana, lime, gherkins, grass, peach. Crisp sour onset, gooseberry and unripe nectarine, lime- and gherkin-like side aspects, medium fizz, wheaty - soapy middle with breadiness thrown in, dried by the sourness; lingering gooseberry sourness with a light grassy hop bitterish note, but when that sulfuric stench returns retronasally, the enjoyment is over. The taste as such is alright, but the extreme sulfuricness in the nose really put me off - BrewDog does great things, but sour and wild ales very clearly are not something they should venture in (yet?). Feels like a case of self-overestimation to me.

On tap at In de Wildeman, CB'18. Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of some dirty sourness, wet socks, cardboard, lemon, malts. Flavour is malty, wet socks, light sour, light metallic, not great tbh. Light bodied.

Tap at In de Wildeman. Hazy pale yellow with white head. Strong Brett, soft glue, sour mango, pears, light apple juice, lactic, weird funk and soft oak. Medium sour, light bitter and sweet. Medium bodied. Meh.

6 3 6 3 12At In De Wildeman,  Carnivale Brettanomyces ‘18.  Fairly hazy golden with a ring white head.  Aroma of herbs, citrus, green hops, light funk and tart light fruit.  Flavour is light to moderate sweet and above moderate sour.  Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Hazy pale golden with white head. Sweet malts, sour grain, wheat, hay, sugars. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Brettfest of Champions on 28 Jun 2018 at 22:25 - Score: 6

Hazy pale golden with white head. Sweet malts, sour grain, wheat, hay, sugars. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.

What the other people said, this is an unfinished beer, feels like they dropped some souring yeast into some boiled malts. 3.2