Zintuki
Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.97
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Blending + Sour + Ninkasi
The art of blending has huge appreciation in the wine and whisky world but isn’t often talked about in terms of beer. Perhaps it’s considered a little too wild? Not for us.
Zintuki is Ninkasi’s younger, wilder sister (and goddess of food and dinner.) A perfect name for this blend of Ninkasi (our Celebratory beer made with a small amount of local apple juice) and Somerset Wild (a sour beer fermented using yeast and bacteria from local orchards).
A combination of the complexity and champagne spritziness of Ninkasi with the dry lemon acidic sharpness of Somerset Wild, gives a blend richly aromatic on the nose, refreshing on the tongue and deeply satisfying on the palate. Designed, and named, to be the perfect complement to food, this beer is heavenly with fish, chicken or cheese.
The art of blending has huge appreciation in the wine and whisky world but isn’t often talked about in terms of beer. Perhaps it’s considered a little too wild? Not for us.
Zintuki is Ninkasi’s younger, wilder sister (and goddess of food and dinner.) A perfect name for this blend of Ninkasi (our Celebratory beer made with a small amount of local apple juice) and Somerset Wild (a sour beer fermented using yeast and bacteria from local orchards).
A combination of the complexity and champagne spritziness of Ninkasi with the dry lemon acidic sharpness of Somerset Wild, gives a blend richly aromatic on the nose, refreshing on the tongue and deeply satisfying on the palate. Designed, and named, to be the perfect complement to food, this beer is heavenly with fish, chicken or cheese.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is floral to fruity,slight sourish. Bretty, floral and slight wooden. Floral bretty and dry. Subdued bitter and sweetnes, more perfumed to floral bretty. Medium dry and floral finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2016
at 06:01
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 3
Texture 10
Overall 4
330ml bottle. Pours cloudy pale orange with visible effervescence and a nice pillowy head. Aroma is all cider vinegar, with a nice apple note in a bunch of tartness. Flavour has a big tart hit to start, then there’s a muddy bread note then leading into tasty apple. It’s a real shame about that off note in the middle, because everything else about this is spot on. It looks enticing, it smells great, it pops and fizzes in the mouth. For such a low rating, this was so close to being fantastic. Really quite disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2016
at 02:53
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Draft glass @ Billie’s Bier Kafetaria. I wasn’t too crazy about regular Ninkasi & I disliked Somerset Wild so there isn’t any surprise that I didn’t like this one at all. Hazy citrus with a big white head. Nose is mellow wheat, sweet apple, sugar, faintly lactic, faint unflattering pickle,… Taste is weird boozy soapy rotting apple, fizzy, spoiled, massive soap, unpliant spoiled milk & low pickles, washing powder, dry plaster, lingering plaster & paper finish,… Thin & fizzy, powdery, plaster beer. Probably shouldn’t have order this.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Sep 2016
at 02:12
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Tap at billies. Pours unclear blonde, good white head. Smell is bit sour dry, vegetables. Taste is soft sour, bot fruity malty, even with a -almost-smoky undertone. Vey very far from a smoked beer’s taste though. Reminds of a gose , has a bit of a salty character to it. Not bad . For sure Unique !
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Sep 2016
at 11:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
21.07.2016, 0,33l bottle @ home:
Big fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head, hazy. Aroma is slightly funky fruity, old orange peel, whitewine barrel, orange, grass, minerals, weeds, flowers, yeast, unripe tropical fruits, marzipan. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish, weeds, whitewine barrel, minerals, sour grass, bark, citrus, old orange peel, soda powder, hay, grain. Medium bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Big fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head, hazy. Aroma is slightly funky fruity, old orange peel, whitewine barrel, orange, grass, minerals, weeds, flowers, yeast, unripe tropical fruits, marzipan. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish, weeds, whitewine barrel, minerals, sour grass, bark, citrus, old orange peel, soda powder, hay, grain. Medium bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2016
at 17:21