Freude
Sonoma Springs Brewing Company in Sonoma, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
5.67
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle is at least a couple years old.Aroma is fairly fruity with some dark berry and cherry notes as well as dark figs. Light chocolate and toasted bread malt notes with hints of acidity. It smells better than I was expecting based on the previous review with no sign of condiments. Pours a dark murky brown with a very thin light tan head that has surprisingly good retention considering its just a few bubbles from pouring this beer a foot above the glass. Oddly enough, this is also the first beer that hissed when I removed the wax to get to the cap; I don?t think it likes me. Faint lacing and no legs. Flavor has a hint of sweetness that quickly turns acidic. Moderate lactic acidity but also quite a bit of acetic acid. Medium light notes of cherries, berries and figs. Finish does have an odd malt character with a bit of toastiness that doesn?t blend great with the acidity. Lingering fruit, acetic acid and toasted malt. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium low to low carbonation. Moderate acidic astringency with medium low alcohol warmth. Overall about what I was expecting. The aroma was good but the flavor was acetic and the fruit was a bit washed out. I hope my sink is thirsty.
nimbleprop (16838) reviewed Freude from Sonoma Springs Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
750ml bottle pours a translucent, muddy brown with some cloudy white head. Nose of dill, celery, pickle juice. Tastes like... pickles, lettuce, cabbage. Medium bodied, pickle finish. Whoa, weird.
Drake (22940) reviewed Freude from Sonoma Springs Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
750 mL bottle courtesy of nimbleprop. I got a pour from the middle of the bottle and it already looked like mud. Thin off-white head. Decent head retention. Tart aroma with notes of mustard, vegetable and herbal notes, dill particularly. The taste is tart, earthy and spice with that same dill thing going on. Medium bodied. Weird and funky, and not necessarily in a good way. The other ratings are much better, so it looks like we got a bad bottle.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, thanks to t0rin0 (I think) at Sourfest. Pours with a murky, brown body with a small tan head. Aromas are lightly smokey, sour, vinous, hair dryer, suntan lotion, molten plastic, dark fruits and berries. Flavors are of berries, acetic acid, caramel, vinous, plastic. Earthy. Light bubbles.