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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Cotteridge Wines. Poured a hazy medium amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is light yeast hop. The flavour is light bitter with a dry hoppy light floral light bretty palate. Light bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jun 2015
at 12:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg from Cotteridge Wines tasting rooms; clear amber pour with a thin beige head, slight sour and malt aroma, taste has dark fruits, light caramel, brett action.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2015
at 06:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Fyne Fest’, Achadunan, Cairndow, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, Saturday 13thJune 2015 Pours amber with a white head. Mmmhhh..a little rather dull beer from Siren, yeh’, it’s a bitter with some brett, I get that but it’s got very little going for it, touch fruity, malty with a caramel edge, and a little sourness on the nose. Ok but a tad dull. A6 A3 T6 P3 Ov12 3.0
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jun 2015
at 23:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at Siren, 13th June 15. Pretty dull beer, not enough Brett to make it interesting, lacks flavour and complexity
Tried
on 14 Jun 2015
at 01:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at CBC Holborn, 03/06/15. Lightly hazed orange golden with a moderate light beige covering. Nose is light wood, tarte fruit, faint diaper, bitter citric peel, brett light, hints of glue, apple core. Taste comprises ripe fruit, on the turn melon, spice, straw, light brett, faint menthol. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with light acidity. Ok approachable bretted sour, packs some flavour for 4.5% but lacks character for me.
Tried
on 12 Jun 2015
at 16:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Golden amber with a tight cream head - looking like a traditional ESB - but with rather heavy carbonation; the aroma is sour, but not overly so - reminding me of grape must; in the mouth it’s well balanced, the sourness is there, but it’s quite subtle and is countered by some sweet caramel malts; the finish is clean and fresh. An interesting idea, but it’s not going to wow the sour drinkers, or appeal to a traditional bitter man.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jun 2015
at 08:10
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild spiced slight herbal. Bitter. Mild spiced, herbal and toasted dry malty. Bitter and slight herbal finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jun 2015
at 07:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
4th June 2015
Craft Tottenham Court Road. Keg. Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry and mildly minerally crisp. Mellow malts, traces of caramel and twig, Mild dried fruits. Modest savoury brett. Light dry crisp finish. Clean enough but a bit recessed.
Craft Tottenham Court Road. Keg. Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry and mildly minerally crisp. Mellow malts, traces of caramel and twig, Mild dried fruits. Modest savoury brett. Light dry crisp finish. Clean enough but a bit recessed.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2015
at 10:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap. Mother Kelly’s. Bethnal Green. Described as an English bitter. I get that. It’s malty. Light bitter. Bit vinous. My Dad would take it back, and possibly argue some kind of toss. I liked it. Pretty easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jun 2015
at 15:47
8/10
Tried
on 03 Jun 2015
at 10:42