Blueberry vs. Blackberry
Kent Falls Brewing in Kent, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.05
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A truly wild ale. Fermented with a blend of wild cultures from fruit skins, 1200 lb of blueberries and 300 lb of blackberries were added to 700 gallons of beer.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft at stags head. Lovely deep purple color with small head. Nose is crazy reduced blueberry and blackberry and balsamic and wine. Tastes very much the same of berry jam, rich balsamic vinegar, deep Cabernet, some lemongrass, and peppery tones. Very tart and thick palate. Haven’t had sour like this in awhile with all the lighter dry hopped varietals popping up.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jul 2016
at 11:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Tip Tap Room, 7/14/16.
Absolutely beautiful dark violet color shows a high clarity, plentiful crimson highlights and a beige head atop that is small, but sits at cover nicely.
Huge burst of acetic and lactic acid in the nose definitely signals the bacterial fermentation here. Hot on its toes are juicy, intense, tart blackberry and blueberry aromatics bursting with wine-like acidity and showing light black pepper-like spiciness.
After having this beer on draught (versus the other raters having it in bottle, which is quite often the case with this brewery and my ratings of it), it’s pretty clear that there’s a high variance on their bottles, which is fair, as they’re a tiny operation making unfiltered, very wild/sour/fruited beers. Anyhow, there’s no diacetyl present here, no ammonia, no problems whatsoever.
What you do have, is an absolutely massive amount of pure sourness. It took me a number of cringes, shaking my head and deep breaths after the first handful of sips. Intense lactic-acetic sourness backed by rich, strong, tart fruit flavors. But it’s all carried on by an exquisitely tight, champagne-like carbonation and good attenuation. There’s definitely some rich, syrupy fruit character left behind and it pleasantly helps to balance the sourness, itself adding rich blueberry and blackberry jam flavors. Soft texture with tons of fruit and intense, lingering, enamel-stripping sourness.
Absolutely beautiful dark violet color shows a high clarity, plentiful crimson highlights and a beige head atop that is small, but sits at cover nicely.
Huge burst of acetic and lactic acid in the nose definitely signals the bacterial fermentation here. Hot on its toes are juicy, intense, tart blackberry and blueberry aromatics bursting with wine-like acidity and showing light black pepper-like spiciness.
After having this beer on draught (versus the other raters having it in bottle, which is quite often the case with this brewery and my ratings of it), it’s pretty clear that there’s a high variance on their bottles, which is fair, as they’re a tiny operation making unfiltered, very wild/sour/fruited beers. Anyhow, there’s no diacetyl present here, no ammonia, no problems whatsoever.
What you do have, is an absolutely massive amount of pure sourness. It took me a number of cringes, shaking my head and deep breaths after the first handful of sips. Intense lactic-acetic sourness backed by rich, strong, tart fruit flavors. But it’s all carried on by an exquisitely tight, champagne-like carbonation and good attenuation. There’s definitely some rich, syrupy fruit character left behind and it pleasantly helps to balance the sourness, itself adding rich blueberry and blackberry jam flavors. Soft texture with tons of fruit and intense, lingering, enamel-stripping sourness.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2016
at 18:55