Envious
New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.57
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Envious is a unique beer, a hybrid of many techniques. Its high-gravity malt-fermented base is blended with Michigan pear juice and chardonnay yeast for a second fermentation, before being aged with raspberries and oak. Unlike any style or beer before it, it must be tasted to be appreciated.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle courtesy of Mark on 06/28/2010. Clear reddish brown body with a medium creamy tan head. Sweet fruit and raspberry aroma. Sweet raspberry and fruit flavor. Medium body with moderately high carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2010
at 13:57
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft @ Gallaghers, Kalamazoo. Dark brown colour, tan head. Aroma of toasted malts, fruity, raspberry. Flavour is toasted malts, fruits, raspberry. A bit watery. Not much to it.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jun 2010
at 04:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
2010 Bottle thanks to blutt59. Pours with a tan head and a brown body. Aroma is tannic, sharp berry and chocolate cake. Taste is fruity, chocolate, oak, berry, tannic, pear. Light bubbles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2010
at 22:08
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Amazing blend of pear and other fruit juices. Almost like a lambic/ale hybrid without the sourness of lambic. Purplish pour. Rated 4/10/10
Tried
on 29 Apr 2010
at 16:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sample from bottle at Glunz Beer Expo, April 5. Nice dark brown color, but the beer has no haze. Thin layer of foam with a touch of lace. Smell has a little bit of pear, but not overwhelming. Taste has some cider to it. Very thin mouthfeel, does not seem to have any of the alcohol that it claims. I don’t know why, but I am just not as impressed as everyone else seems to be by these new New Holland beers. Pear juice flavor doesn’t stand out. I guess they wanted to match it to the malts, but they kind of both lose out that way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2010
at 12:02