Coolship
Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
7.63
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This beer is naturally cooled in shallow stainless steel vats, borrowed from our neighbours at Westcombe Dairy. They were previously used for making their cheese curds and it’s very fitting given that our barrel library is in an ex-cheddar store. For a brewery like us that celebrates local terroir, a completely spontaneous beer was the dream
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Rotin (7914) reviewed Coolship 2019 from Wild Beer Co 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
The fifth one of 22 beers for our 12th wedding anniversary. Norinfé's.
Bottle 0.75l. Almost clear, light orange colored. AROMA- apricot, berries, plums, funky, blue type cheese. FLAVOR- silky, slightly sweet, quite sour, lightly bitter, full of sour berries and apricots, strawberry, sea buckthorn, white flesh from baobab fruit, touch of wood, dark grapes. Medium to fuller bodied.
Very close to classic lambic. Great!
Cheeseboard (6269) reviewed Coolship 2021 from Wild Beer Co 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml bottle. Pours hazed amber to gold with beige foam. Aroma: citrus, oak, funk. Taste: moderate sharp/tart, funk, sour lemon, zesty citrus, oak, lightly dry. Medium body with spritzy carbonation.
Cheeseboard (6269) reviewed Coolship 2020 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle online from Rad Beer. Pours almost clear gold with a decent beige cap. Aroma: sour apple, apple skins, floral, funk. Taste: light to moderate tart, dry, sharp citrus, lemon, sour apple. Medium body with foamy carbonation. Very decent, an English equivalent of geuze.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Coolship 2022 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Rating #8000. 750ml @ Phill's. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: funky, bugs, some minerals, a bit fruity. Taste: along the same lines, very bright and prominent. Overall: very nice, cool(ship) beer for an 8000 rating, thanks, Phill! 😊
pictoman (9684) reviewed Coolship 2020 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy gold with small white head. Some wood, nice funk sour, a bit of underlying dairy element. Enjoyable.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Coolship 2020 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dark amber, with not much head. Has a leathery note, a touch of brett, slight bit of earthiness. Quite tart, almost bracing, with again that leather stuff, light brett, and a lemony finish. A bit too much on that lemony side of things but it's a pretty good beer.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Coolship 2020 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a minimally hazy full golden with a small white head. Aroma is quite complex, with plenty of barnyard funk, complex bugs, and some lemon skins. Flavour is quite citric and funky, with lots of barnyard funk, lemon skins, wild bugs, and oak. Citric, fairly funky, and cohesive. Not quite gueuze territory, but it's impressively done.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Coolship 2022 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The last of these sours (technically lambics because spontaneously fermented) produced by Wild Beer in an actual coolship – sadly this very distinct brewery, certainly in an English context, has meanwhile ceased brewing. Many thanks to Craftmember for sharing. Off-white, medium thick, opening and dissipating, loose head lacing in dots over a misty amber-tinged orange blonde beer with rosy hue. Aroma of unripe plum and unripe mandarin, sour grape, green gooseberry, overripe nectarine, redcurrant, sour yoghurt, some wood, some pineapple and even some peach. Crisply sour onset, bit lemony but not vinegary, rich in fruitiness with impressions of unripe stonefruit, redcurrant and gooseberry, with a certain peachy sweetness hidden within the tartness; softish carb, slick and vinous body. A layer of grapey juiciness from the (in this case Californian) wine barrel treatment lurks underneath the smooth, sour-bready and slenderly biscuity, even somewhat creamy cerealliness, dried by yoghurty sourness and ongoing fruity acidity. Clear oaky tannins in the end but remaining clean, sleek and focused on tart fruitiness, with sour grape, gooseberry, sour plum, redcurrant and even some unripe citrus lingering; a bitterish hop note pops up briefly but quickly resides again. ‘Basic’ for a sour ale, but simplicity is complicated in the mixed and spontaneous fermentation fields; Wild Beer managed to produce a perfectly balanced, easily drinkable, very elegant and very fruity sour here. Loved it.
Parmenion777 (1984) reviewed Coolship 2022 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500ml bottle - Pours a lightly hazed orange amber colour with a small off-white head that quickly settled. The aroma is tart fruit, damp straw and barnyard. A tart fruity taste, unripe stonefruit, green pears, lemony and woody flavours with a moderately sour fruity finish. Very nice.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Coolship 2022 from Wild Beer Co 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at Brewdog Paddington, 10/03/23. Golden orange with a moderate white covering. Nose is funk, lemon rind, herb, damp straw, grains, barnyard esters. Taste comprises green berry skins, dry rot, funk, lemon rind, olive stones, damp hay, hedgerow, vinous. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced acidic rise. Tidy easy drinking and well balanced sour.