Coolship Bloodbath
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.85
|
|
This is a fun little beer we brewed on Doom Forge Day back in January 2024 for the first time. In honor of all things metal that day, we turned our coolship into a Kubrick-esque “bloodbath” by filling it with wort brewed with beets.
We cooled overnight, pitched our mixed culture, and primary fermented in a foudre. After about two months of maturation, we add Ethiopian Banko Taratu coffee (notes of strawberry, blueberry, and lime) from our friends at Figure 8 Coffee Roasters.
Coolship Bloodbath is a nice, tart, medium-strength beet and coffee farmhouse ale.
We cooled overnight, pitched our mixed culture, and primary fermented in a foudre. After about two months of maturation, we add Ethiopian Banko Taratu coffee (notes of strawberry, blueberry, and lime) from our friends at Figure 8 Coffee Roasters.
Coolship Bloodbath is a nice, tart, medium-strength beet and coffee farmhouse ale.
Sign up to add a tick or review
7.1/10
—
Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
16 oz. can. Pours a clear, bubbly, orange color, with a fleeting head. The aroma is lemon peel, horse blanket, blood orange, and leather. Dry and musty, with a mellow, funky bitterness. Medium body, sticky, dusty, and quite astringent. Strange and interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2025
at 20:40
7.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Canned 6/5/24, drunk 10/1/24. Clear, pinkish-cranberry. Large, pinkish-cranberry head fades steadily to ring. Round coffee notes are mild, alongside earthy, lightly juicy beats and a mild, somewhat hard-to-pin-down culture that is neither very tart nor very expressive. Just a lot of earthiness, all around, I guess. But competent and aromatic. In the mouth it's mildly tart, very earthy with lots of gentle beet softness and a mildly savory, rather dry coffee character leading to moderate coffee and mixed culture acidity on the finish. Malts are fairly supportive, though I think could be a bit deeper to provide even better support to all of these dry, earthy, bitter, acidic components. Very ambitious, interesting and unique, as always, though, from JK.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Oct 2024
at 20:29