Ivy Bells
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.29
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IVY BELLS is a custom blend of both traditional Barrel-aged and Solera-fermented spontaneous ales. Made by refermenting pineapple,apricot, pink guava, blood orange, raspberry, passion fruit, cherry and grape in a golden-blonde base beer blend. At BLACK PROJECT, blending beers is what we do, but this release is a chance to blend with fruit directly. The goal is not necessarily to be able to taste each of the fruit flavors individually, but to have the right amounts of each to create the end product that we feel is the most delicious.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to the RB crew for sharing! Sampled bottled @ BXLBeerFest 2018! Ugly murky reddish, born murky with no head; Nose is murky strawberry, red fruit, acidic, rotting red fruit,..; Taste is rotting sweet red fruit, wild strawberry, lemon, murky, imperfect but nice, murky body, fermenting strawberry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2018
at 22:51
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Black Project Ivy Bells (by Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
25/VIII/18 - sample @ BXL Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2018-1109) Thanks to the Belgian and Dutch Ratebeer crews for sharing today's beers!
Very cloudy pinkish orange beer, practically no head. Aroma: funky, very yeasty, smells like a Berliner Weisse, but a bad one. Pretty unpleasant, smells like puke with fruit, a bit like the Kindl one, which is not a compliment... Also some tannins. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: acidic start, rather clean acidity, bitter touch, some tannins, funky. Aftertaste: nice fruity notes, but also some puke and vinegar.
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
25/VIII/18 - sample @ BXL Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2018-1109) Thanks to the Belgian and Dutch Ratebeer crews for sharing today's beers!
Very cloudy pinkish orange beer, practically no head. Aroma: funky, very yeasty, smells like a Berliner Weisse, but a bad one. Pretty unpleasant, smells like puke with fruit, a bit like the Kindl one, which is not a compliment... Also some tannins. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: acidic start, rather clean acidity, bitter touch, some tannins, funky. Aftertaste: nice fruity notes, but also some puke and vinegar.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2018
at 20:06
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2018
at 15:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at BXL festival. Murky dark pink with almost no head. Lots of nice red berries, funk, sharp tart grapefruit juice, strawberries, light mineral, earthy funk, peach, wheat. But over medium sour and soft sweet and bitter. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2018
at 13:20