Field & Oak Elderflower
Kane Brewing Company in Ocean, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
7.14
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In early May 2020, our team traveled to one of our favorite small farms in New Jersey to hand-pick the year's elderflower harvest. Our team carefully selected a blend of some of our favorite mature barrels with an average age of 19 months at the time. We cold macerate the freshly harvested flowers in our traditionally made spontaneously fermented beer for a single night to retain only the most elegant floral aromatics. The beer was then racked back to oak for further conditioning for an additional 6 months prior to bottling. After bottling, Elderflower | 2020 Harvest spent over two years conditioning and rounding out to perfection. The total average age of Elderflower | 2020 Harvest is nearly 4.5 years. Elderflower | 2020 Harvest pours a brilliant golden color with incredibly creamy and well-integrated carbonation. The aromatics immediately burst with a beautiful green apple and fresh spring flowers, while the base beer brings well-rounded acidity balanced by flavors of apricots and pomelo.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
500 ml bottle from Kane Direct, 1/9/22. 2019 Harvest, First Blend, Bottled October 2019. Unclear yellowish color, fizzy foam of white head. Floral, fruity, and grassy. Bubble gum, orange, and lemon. The aroma would have made me think it would taste much funkier and more tart, but it actually drinks really bright and fairly sweet. Quite good.
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from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2022
at 19:44