All Bretts Are Off
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Crooked Stave Artisan Beer ProjectSour / Wild Beer Special Out of Production
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Score
6.46
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Our "English Bitter" collaboration with Crooked Stave has a traditional malt base with high notes of English Challenger and Fuggle hops, but fermentation with twelve different strains of Brettanomyces quickly makes it something far from ordinary. Now All Bretts Are Off.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap the Grosvenor, Hanwell, 18/7/2015. A lively pour which the barman struggled to control. Hazy copper in colour with a frothy, off-white, head. Aroma of hedgerow fruits, brett, sweetish malts and a touch of leafy hop. Flavour had more fruit, some funk that was vaguely reminiscent of Orval and a moderately bitter finish. A pleasant beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2015
at 06:26
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 1
Draught @ The Rover. Pours hazy pale Amber with a frothy offwhite head that leaves some sparse thick lacing on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty, funky and heavy phenolic with caramel, rubber, blu-track, pepper corns, hay and dry soil. Taste is tiny bitter, slightly funky and heavy phenolic. Mouthfeel is soft, dry and medium bodied. Finish is bitter with caramel, rubber, white pepper corns, dry soil and lemon zest. Rubbery mess! Bretts gone wild in all the bad ways... Shockingly bad considering the culprits.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2015
at 12:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Ochre brown, opaque with a bit of white head. Well-judged aroma with leather, kumquat, dough and pecan pie. If the taste lived up to the smell... but it doesn’t. A rather dull bittersweet bordering on insipid. Bitter/sour unfocused finish, but the carbonated palate makes up for it somewhat. Flawed and below average for the incredibly high standards of one of my favourite breweries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2015
at 10:13
5/10
Tried
on 01 Aug 2015
at 15:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at Craft Beer Co – Clapham. Clear amber-red body. Fair lacing, shiny naked surface. Aromas of mild brown malts and brett. Fruity tart flavours, yeasty fruitiness and a touch of rhubarb. Backdrop of mid-sweet malts. Drying finish. Soft carbonated. Alright without being great in any way (London 12.07.2015).
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jul 2015
at 03:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Bishops Arms Gustav, Malmö. Pours a slightly hazy pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty weak bretty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty weak brettty flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty bretty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jul 2015
at 05:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle @ Chez Sophie. Pours amber with off-white head. Typical English bitter with subtle brett undertones which work very well indeed, adding some interesting, modest colours to an otherwise bog-standard style. Wish I had a pint of it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2015
at 16:05
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at The Hanging Bat. Clear amber body with a thin off-white head. Nice lacing. Aroma of peppermint, caramel and menthol - very unusual. Flavour of mint, banana and honey. Thin body with an oily texture. A unique beer, that’s for sure. It’s a bit all over the place to be honest.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2015
at 16:51
7/10
Normal golden ale with Brett. Lemons, grapefruit and citrus. Nice! Collaboration with Crooked Stave.
Tried
at
The Ale House
on 08 Jul 2015
at 13:52
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap@CBC Covent Garden, London (03/06/2015) - pours golden amber with white head. Sour fruity aroma and taste, acidic, grapes, bretty, dark fruits, light caramel, tart on the palate, dry tart finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2015
at 04:51