Senescence
Kent Falls Brewing in Kent, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Baltic BaySour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Special Out of Production
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Score
6.87
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Senescence is the collective process that leads to the death of a plant, such as a leaf. Through this beer we seek to capture the bittersweet beauty and color of the summer’s end and bridge the gap until nature’s wheel turns back to spring. Late season foraged birch leaves and Connecticut chardonnay grapes offer an appropriately tanic quality with hints of apple and pine nuts alongside complex acidity produced by fermentation with native wild yeasts.
Brewed October 2017. Bottled December 2017.
Brewed October 2017. Bottled December 2017.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Nate: pours gold with white head. Aroma is fruity, funky, and vinegar. Taste is quite spur, very fruity, but also it has that hefty vinegar taste in there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2019
at 04:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle drunk 11/10/18.
Pours a clear, bright, coppery-orange with deeper rust hues and a beige head atop that slowly fades to cover.
Interesting cereal notes mix quickly with citrus and yogurt as acetic acid enters the mix, as well. It's definitely a robust nose with plentiful acidity, but there's juiciness from the grapes that helps to balance. Like most American (and to be honest, a handful of lambic producers) wild blends, there's a little bit more acetic character than you generally want, but here it's not over-the-top. The malt isn't thin either, lending aforementioned cereal-like notes with more rustic grains and moderate amounts of honey and caramel. Floral notes and even light tropical fruits from the Brett linger on the finish with no alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it's malty, soft, well-attenuated, with interesting bitterness/astringency from the birch and honey/caramel malts mixing with light cereal and juicy grapes. Fruity Brett and lightly tart lactic acidity slowly gives way to acetic character, but it doesn't stick to the throat/linger and despite the burst of sourness and light vinegar, it vanishes from the palate quickly, leaving honey, cereal, citrusy Chardonnay and Brett lingering. Not a masterpiece and a bit disjointed here and there, but still well done.
Pours a clear, bright, coppery-orange with deeper rust hues and a beige head atop that slowly fades to cover.
Interesting cereal notes mix quickly with citrus and yogurt as acetic acid enters the mix, as well. It's definitely a robust nose with plentiful acidity, but there's juiciness from the grapes that helps to balance. Like most American (and to be honest, a handful of lambic producers) wild blends, there's a little bit more acetic character than you generally want, but here it's not over-the-top. The malt isn't thin either, lending aforementioned cereal-like notes with more rustic grains and moderate amounts of honey and caramel. Floral notes and even light tropical fruits from the Brett linger on the finish with no alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it's malty, soft, well-attenuated, with interesting bitterness/astringency from the birch and honey/caramel malts mixing with light cereal and juicy grapes. Fruity Brett and lightly tart lactic acidity slowly gives way to acetic character, but it doesn't stick to the throat/linger and despite the burst of sourness and light vinegar, it vanishes from the palate quickly, leaving honey, cereal, citrusy Chardonnay and Brett lingering. Not a masterpiece and a bit disjointed here and there, but still well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2018
at 21:29