Effinguud
Valley Brewing Company in Stockton, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.23
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KimLundJohansen (10465) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cloudy burgundy with a tiny off white head. Sour aroma with berries, lacto and brett notes. Flavour was sour with lacto, brett, wood and sour berries. Finished sour.
fonefan (84235) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 22fl.oz.Unclear medium to dark red brown color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry, sour berry, sour grape, oak, vanilla. Flavor is moderateto heavy sweet and light moderate acidic with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090922]
Ungstrup (52101) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet malty with sour notes of lacto, fruit, and brettanomyces. The flavor is sweet and acicid with strong notes of over ripe berries and grapes, as well as medium notes of brettanomyces, leading to a tart fruity finish. Thanks Steve for this.
yespr (55607) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark orange to brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is wineous and mild sour, roasted malt note. Wineous, fruity and wooden flavoured. Bitter. Smooth fruity and lingering mild wooden, wineous to sourish finish. Nice one.
fiulijn (28444) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cloudy brown color; no head. The aroma shows some fruity and sour side, with light vanilla oak too. Medium body strength, actually a bit light at the end, with a nice vanilla oak to cover the caramel flavor. It also has some alcohol punch. It’s a bit confusing, but not bad.
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle 65 cl. Pours a murky and opaque orangey brown with prety much no head. Lovely oak aroma, also somewhat vinous. Quite full-bodied, low in carbonation, sweet caramel, fruit and LOADS of oak. No real bitterness but a vague underlying tartness. Very yummy. 220909
Ibrew2or3 (10793) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Courtesy of boboski. Pours slightly hazy dirty brownish amber with weak white head. The aroma is wine, port, wood, oak and no weizenbock. The flavor is a brief maltiness that vanishes under a torrent of red wine fruitiness, tannins, some port and then wood oakiness. Interesting. A fleeting malty blandness is there for a moment. Enjoyable but a bit odd for the style.
notalush (7333) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to CaptainCougar for sharing this at JoeMcphee’s place - hazy, headless, still brownish amber pour - brown sugar and oak in the aroma, with a booziness that is not clearly identifiable as port - a bit tart up front, with some earthy, tannic notes - the stereotypical weizenbock character is kind of washed out by the port, which, much like in the aroma, is more of a general booziness than a strongly defined port flavor - the tannic character is the only give-away - an earthy, subtle (lacto?) sourness keeps it interesting.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Bomber from KrausenJockey drunk on 5/28/07
Wow, I’d been lookin forward to this one and have also been lookin forward to this rating. How to rate it??? It’s like no beer I’ve ever had. First of all HUGE PROPS to Steve for having the ingenuity to make something like this. Is it wine? Is it beer? It’s definitely a little of both worlds.
Not surprisingly the lack of carbonation is going to shock some less experienced palates and I could see some 1.9s and 2.5s being given to this (just pulled those numbers out of nowhere) ;)
Yep, it’s not got the mouthfeel of beer, and wow is it a lot like some red wines I’ve had, the yeast tartness even mimicking some of the grape character. But it’s definitely not lacking in beer flavor, with plenty of breadiness, vanilla, light chocolate and even some smooth, chewy wheat.
Not a "weizenbock" in the traditional German sense of the style, but if you expected that or held this beer to that standard when rating it, then in the words of a better rapper than me, "ya have no clue what me and my homie snoop dogg came to do"....just replace snoop dogg with Valley Brewing. This isnt their attempt at the GABF winning Weizenbock, but rather a very creative beer/wine hybrid in the general mold.
I’ve got little patience for beers that are overshadowed by some other, non-beer character, see my ratings on lots of over-hopped, over-fruited and over-spiced beers....but this stuff holds true to beer, you just have to get past the carbonation. Despite the oily, somewhat difficult mouthfeel for a beer, the attenuation is wonderful and, I think, very much compensates for the lack of carbonation.
Lastly (I’ll try to cut this rant off now), if you like wild yeast and barrel aging done right, then what could your complaints be here? Brett and lacto acids only extend to the point of tartness, perhaps borderline sourness, but nothing overdone. Barrel character is layered upon the chocolate, raisin and plum notes. Taste that little tannic bite? Wow, it’s in the realm of barrel-aging with wine (which, for the most part, is consistently MUCH better balanced and integrated than what most brewers are doing with barrel-aged beer).
Yes, I will admit a little bit too much breadiness and acidity does build up, as the beer progresses, but it’s simply jaw-dropping to see a beer fashioned this well with, more-or-less, no precedent.
I seriously can’t even wait for the Decadence GC. Keep this stuff comin Steve!!!
JK (8140) reviewed Effinguud from Valley Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
A dark brown and lightly carbonated beer. Aroma has light wheat and some banana. Flavor has these qualities as well, but is also quite sweet and has malt and brown sugar. Very light alcohol burn, and it works with this beer.