Fox Farm Brewery Consonance & Dissonance - Marquette

Consonance & Dissonance - Marquette

 

Fox Farm Brewery in Salem, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Fruit Series
Score
7.36
ABV: 6.7% IBU: - Ticks: 3
Consonance & Dissonance is our ongoing exploration of the distinct harmony between wine grapes and spontaneous beer. Once again, we worked with our family at Blue Heron Vineyard at Foster Farm in South Windsor to select a unique variety and target the ideal picking window for our use - with this iteration we opted for Marquette, a deeply flavorful hybrid variety. As the dark blue/black fruit color would suggest the grape is known for its rich fruit character (dark cherry, currant) a bit of spice and firm tannin. A carefully assembled multi-year blend of spontaneous beer was transferred onto the crushed fruit just after harvest (in 2022) and given time for a complete refermentation. We then transferred the beer back to a 750L oak cask to rest for another several months before bottling last summer. As we’ve mentioned before, the extended time in oak and glass serves to round out the beer dramatically. This one will continue to develop with grace but is drinking wonderfully at this moment.
 

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8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

750mL bottled 6/1/2023, drunk 5/3/25.
As pictured.
Whew, yeah, that's a lot of poop! But excellent minerality with tasteful grape additions. Tart and with rich wheat and chewy neutral wood.
Tart and fruity with rich grape, and yet surprisingly not too much acid. Not as barnyardy in the flavor. Intense, though, with lots of personality. Good body, good wood structure and good attenuation. Could age this for another five years without batting an eye. As with real lambics, im sure this would age well for many years beyond that.

Tried from Bottle at Fox Farm Brewery on 03 May 2025 at 19:16


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared by Clarkvv --thanks, Clark! Lightly hazy amber with slight reddish hue, ring of head and no lacing. Aroma is strong tart fruit over barnyard, old book. Taste is strong tart fruit (back of the mouth puckers) over any sweet fruit, dried dog excrement. Smooth texture, fairly thin, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Some barnyard here but mostly tart avoids sour or too poopy. Well made.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2025 at 19:13


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7.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

750 ml bottle. Crimson in color. Aroma is barnyard and minerals. Flavor is cow dung, old basement, funky red grapes. Lightly sour, the bacteria does give a lot of barnyard. The grapes do balance it to a point.

Tried from Bottle at Fox Farm Brewery on 03 May 2025 at 19:12