Yellow Dot
House of Fermentology in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.89
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Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Yellow Dot from House of Fermentology 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the Belgian Beer Fest, 9/17/16.
Lightly hazy, pale-blonde with some deeper golden hues and a medium sized white head with moderate retention.
The spices are quite prevalent, initially, with the lavender and chamomille adding big perfumey, spicy, floral notes atop light brett and lactic acids. Pepper phenols from the honey are strong as well and yet there’s enough malt behind it all to provide a backbone if not quite a full balance. No alcohol or flaws.
The sour/tart acids go hand-in-hand with the spices/herbs and there’s a light, sticky-sweet honey character in the background. At first I thought it was overdone with the herbal character but towards the end, it began to homogenize pretty well with a sour-herbal-grainy profile balanced by malt sweetness. There’s a strong apricot-nectarine fruitiness, as well that complements both the herbal and sour notes.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Yellow Dot from House of Fermentology 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Foam Brewers aka (House of Fermentology) [side project of Foam Brewers].
They poured this into a teku.
The appearance was a glossy burnt pink almost ruby red grapefruit color. One finger white foamy head seemed to have been there forever, but that’s the pleasure of a teku, yeah well.
The aroma embraces the sour puckering white grape notes over fresh tart citrus rind. Sweet vanilla slides in underneath. Light woodiness.
The flavor starts off sour through the prior aromas and allows that vanilla to balance nicely. Slow sour moving to sweet aftertaste. Delicate sweet leaning finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sipping quality about it. Puckering tartness hits a bit more than a fair amount of other American Wild ales that I have had. Still, that vanilla sweetness tries to blend and balance, does it? Hmmmm....not quite.
Overall, I love the concept and see a ton of potential in this beer but if only a tad bit more of that vanilla and I think this could be a wow beer.