Wicked Weed Brewing Bretticent

Bretticent

 

Wicked Weed Brewing in Candler, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
7.09
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 62
This traditional saison is brewed using North Carolina grown barley, wheat and rye from Riverbend Malthouse and is open fermented. The beer is then finished with Brettanomyces and bottled. Drink it fresh, or let it age and bring out the funk.
 

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

Bottled 7/9/15, shared by AdamC on 5/21/16.
Golden-blonde body has a touch of muted brass. Good clarity, leaving the sediment behind and a white head that shows moderate retention.
Brett is fairly perfumey but shows some more mild guava and lime skin notes. A lovely malt character sits behind it, adding rustic cereal notes, with the various grains showing nicely. Light pear and vanilla linger on the end with no alcohol or flaw. Some light minerality and wet hay give saison character and a delightfully mild sulfur note can’t help but charm. It’s not terribly saison-like, overall, with not much of a yeast profile but seems more like a rustic brett golden ale, which is fine. The grains are certainly enjoyable and add complexity and I love the light sulfur.
Soft, lightly malty texture shows both the softness/chewiness of the wheat and rye. Hints of honey and vanilla back a guava-lime character with some strong lemon suggestions. Tight carbonation, no alcohol or flaw. I like that it’s not terribly tart and retains a good fruity vibrancy with plentiful malt/grain characteristics. Not much of a traditional saison, but again, it works well as a brett golden ale, which is basically what most brewers making these "saisons" are actually putting out. But I’m less concerned about what it’s called than how it is brewed and this one is brewed well.

Tried from Bottle on 30 May 2016 at 11:31


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle pours out a hazy straw topped with a fizzy white head. Nose is funk brett light citrus belg esters plenty of pepper spice. Taste is more citrus notes brett you drying it out a nice pepper spice and a touch of funky fruit.

Tried from Bottle on 30 May 2016 at 09:03


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Cotteridge Wines tasting room; hazy golden yellow pour with a small frothy off white head, aroma has a hint of spice, taste has sharp lemon, melon, some grapefruit, straw, light spice.

Tried from Bottle on 30 May 2016 at 07:44


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty funky aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty bretty funky finish.

Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2016 at 07:37


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle / date of 7-9-2015 AdamChan, he carried it back from NC. Aroma is funky Brett, old citrus, weak.

Flavor is about what I expected. Flavor is The taste is bretty and funky, yeast, spice, and a bit of fruitiness as well. Complex fruits in layers. Dry texture. The body is lighter and crisper then I was expecting.

Tried from Bottle on 21 May 2016 at 17:09


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

July 2015 bottling. i bought this at the Funkatorium. Hazy pretty golden orange, a nice thin 1 line head. Smells great. Buckwheat, cream of wheat, honey, banana and sulphur. Good mouthfeel, dense, thick, very heavy. Taste is hay, wheat, honey, oranges, bread like merita white bread.

Tried on 21 May 2016 at 16:54


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sample at BrewDog Malmö. A bit hazy golden with a white head. Aroma and taste of citrus, some bread, brett and grass. Kind of relaxed and easy to drink.

Tried on 15 May 2016 at 06:10


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

50cl bottle pours a dark gold with some cloudy, white head. Nose has dusty couch, straw, grass, dried citrus peel. Flavor has light white flour, citrus peel, light band aid, flower pollen. Dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jan 2016 at 19:51


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 13

Draft. Hazy light golden body with a frothy white head. Brett and more brett in the nose — farmyard and horse blanket along with toasted grain, cracker, light citrus. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/creamy texture, lively carbonation. Lightly sweet aftertaste. Less than bone dry, but enjoyable. Taste of lacquer, funk, mustiness and fruit. The problem for me with many brett saisons like this is that the brett is so dominant you have to dig deep to get any delicacies, one of the pleasures of good saisons.

Tried from Draft on 04 Dec 2015 at 11:41


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Citurs and some hay. Bretta. Golden pour with good head and lacing. Tangy finish. Nice balance. Some peel here. Bottle shared at tasting a while back.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2015 at 11:03