Cor Cordium
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.83
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
375mL bottle drunk 8/17/17.
Cranberry-golden-rose colored body shows low haze. Reasonably-sized, off-white, pink-flecked head shows moderate retention.
Smells amazing; sulfur, fruit skins, cereal grains and funky farm notes towards the end. Very piquant and quite peppery, probably the tannin from the berries. Nothing unwanted here; no acetic character or heavy lactic notes. Everything seems very nicely integrated and it's very hard to pick out individual yeast/bacteria notes (no strong lime or band aid from Brett). Cherries and cranberries seem highly attenuated and provide little juiciness, so it's more of the fruit you get from a lambic, which is a nice change from the usual fruit juice bombs you get in America. Malts are very lean, however, but yet the "dryness" and relatively low acid in the nose takes very little to balance. No alcohol or flaw.
Somewhat disappointing in the mouth, with a bit of promising grain and tight carbonation up front leading to a very bready, astringent, heavily peppery finish that just seems like it needs more residual sugar/dextrine/oak tannin, or something of that nature. The fruit and beer is attenuated to the extreme and while I love the restraint on the sourness in this beer as a whole, the fruit acids still unbalance the beer, given it's very low malt depth. Seems like they got a little carried away on the specialty malt additions? Tough to say, and to its credit it is only a 5% beer, but I still think it's just a bit too undermalted and overattenuated.
Cranberry-golden-rose colored body shows low haze. Reasonably-sized, off-white, pink-flecked head shows moderate retention.
Smells amazing; sulfur, fruit skins, cereal grains and funky farm notes towards the end. Very piquant and quite peppery, probably the tannin from the berries. Nothing unwanted here; no acetic character or heavy lactic notes. Everything seems very nicely integrated and it's very hard to pick out individual yeast/bacteria notes (no strong lime or band aid from Brett). Cherries and cranberries seem highly attenuated and provide little juiciness, so it's more of the fruit you get from a lambic, which is a nice change from the usual fruit juice bombs you get in America. Malts are very lean, however, but yet the "dryness" and relatively low acid in the nose takes very little to balance. No alcohol or flaw.
Somewhat disappointing in the mouth, with a bit of promising grain and tight carbonation up front leading to a very bready, astringent, heavily peppery finish that just seems like it needs more residual sugar/dextrine/oak tannin, or something of that nature. The fruit and beer is attenuated to the extreme and while I love the restraint on the sourness in this beer as a whole, the fruit acids still unbalance the beer, given it's very low malt depth. Seems like they got a little carried away on the specialty malt additions? Tough to say, and to its credit it is only a 5% beer, but I still think it's just a bit too undermalted and overattenuated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2018
at 15:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
375 ml bottle. Appearance is a clear Amber with very thin head, low carbonation. Aroma is mild vinegar, mild oak, and funky cherry.
Flavor follows nose and shows me more vinegar than I care for. Mild cherry is here but the sourness is sharp. For what this is, I can see some folks enjoying this.
Flavor follows nose and shows me more vinegar than I care for. Mild cherry is here but the sourness is sharp. For what this is, I can see some folks enjoying this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2017
at 12:35