Saint Dekkera Barrel Reserve Sour: Fraise (Strawberry)
Destihl Brewery in Normal, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.31
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Our complex, Belgian-style ‘wild beers’ are aged for several months or even years in our oak barrels. Each barrel contains a different base beer (with distinct color, flavor, body, alcohol, malt and hop character) which undergoes spontaneous and prolonged fermentation with wild critters including Brettanomyces, which is a non-spore forming genus of yeast which lives on the skins of fruit in the wild. The genus name Dekkera is used interchangeably with Brettanomyces and was discovered at the Carlsberg brewery in 1904 by N. Hjelte Claussen, who was investigating it as a cause of spoilage in English ales but which is appreciated and encouraged in certain traditional Belgian-style ales.
BARREL #6: Strawberry Blonde
BARREL #6: Strawberry Blonde
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the Normal, IL location. Poured a clear, slight straw color, small wispy white head. Aroma is mostly sour notes, touch of fruit notes were present, mild fruit. Flavor was light sweet berry notes, with funky fruit notes. A really tart and interesting brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2011
at 22:07
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sampled from the tap at 2010 FOBAB. Poured a slight hazy gold with a white head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma had a nice sour light strawberry note with some backing funk. Flavor began with strawberry that grew tart and was backed by some sweet grain and a bit of funk.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Nov 2010
at 10:42