Pulling Nails (Blend #05)
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Perennial Artisan AlesSour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production
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Score
7.41
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Pulling Nails is our ongoing experiment in the art of blending individual threads of different beers to create one unique, complex, finished beer. Blend #5 showcases our love for fruit refermentations in oak. Threads for Blend #5 include:
Kriek du Fermier - with Balaton Cherries
Coolship Blond (late 2013 brew) - with Montmorency Cherries
The Balaton Cherries add unique baking spices, cherry tannins and dried leather to the vibrant acidity, fresh juice and youthfulness of the Montmorency Cherries. Tons of Brettanomyces influence in this blend and earthy hops lends itself more toward a Belgian profile than our highly tart Missouri Wild Ale approach.
Expecting this to age gracefully for years to come.
Kriek du Fermier - with Balaton Cherries
Coolship Blond (late 2013 brew) - with Montmorency Cherries
The Balaton Cherries add unique baking spices, cherry tannins and dried leather to the vibrant acidity, fresh juice and youthfulness of the Montmorency Cherries. Tons of Brettanomyces influence in this blend and earthy hops lends itself more toward a Belgian profile than our highly tart Missouri Wild Ale approach.
Expecting this to age gracefully for years to come.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Chris and Ruth Pre-GBBF 2017 tasting - London. Cheers! Pours lightly hazy grapefruit pink with a creamy, white head. The nose holds light funk, lemon, melon, lemon squash. Lightly sweet with moderate acidity, some lemon meringue, light dough. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with decent acidity, nips of white pepper, hay. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2021
at 20:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle - Funky cheese and light berry notes. Murky orange with a decent white head. Light sour peach and funk.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2018
at 03:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
At ratebeer best pours out golden peach color. Nose is nice cherries oak barrel some funky notes. Taste is more of the nice tart cherries vanilla barrel funk oak.
Tried
on 02 May 2018
at 20:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle 750ml. @ [ chriso & Boudicca's pre- GBBF Shindig 2017 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Side Project Pulling Nails Blend #5 ].Unclear - hazy light to medium red orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, tart, berries, cherries, red berries, cherry skin, light wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic with a long duration, tart, berry, cherry, cherry skin, red berries, light wood, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170805] 8-3-8-3-17
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2018
at 14:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at Shelton Fest VIP bottle share. Pours a cloudy orange with small off white head. The aroma is funk, floral, oak, cherry skin. Thin body, strong funk, oak, fruit is very subtle while funk dominates.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2017
at 17:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at Chris & Ruths pre GBBF Shin Dig, cheers for all the shares, 05/08/17. Hazed reddish orange with a decent light crimson covering. Nose is tarte berry fruit, damp hay, cherry skins, funk, grass, light spice, damp wood. Taste comprises pissy red berry funk, damp straw, barnyard, apple rot, lemon rind, wood must, cherry jizz. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a mellow pucker and balanced acidic rip. Solid well constructed sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2017
at 09:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at C&R Pre-GBBF Tasting 2017. Cheers! It pours hazy pinkish - blush with a small white head. The aroma is soft, fresh, bright, tart, fragrant, rose hip, raspberry, cherry skin, tangy action, wood and some sherbet. The taste is crisp, dry, firm bitterness, lemon sherbet, floral, rose hip, funk, red berry skin, granny smith apple, grape skin and vinous character with a drying finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Bright, tart and has a good depth of flavour. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2017
at 02:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at Chriso’s and Ruth pre GBBF shindig. 02/08/2017. Many thanks. A peach pink coloured pour with a a fine white head. Aroma is farty, peach, yogurt funk, smoked raspberry. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, caramac bar, lacto, funk, yogurt. . Peach, American sour. Caramac bar. Palate is semi sweet, tangy, sour. Pear. Palate is semi sweet frothy, spicy lacto. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2017
at 14:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
5th August 2017
The great pre GBBF bottleshare at ChrisO’s. Very hazy apricot colour beer, big pale cream colour head. Palate is light, dry and has decent fine carbonation. Mild brett and lemon acid. Modest tropical fruit vibe. Floral candy fruits. Smooth finish. Tasty.
The great pre GBBF bottleshare at ChrisO’s. Very hazy apricot colour beer, big pale cream colour head. Palate is light, dry and has decent fine carbonation. Mild brett and lemon acid. Modest tropical fruit vibe. Floral candy fruits. Smooth finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2017
at 12:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Chriso’s and Ruth pre GBBF shindig, August 5, 2017. Pours flat, a bit pinkish, nice grainy sour nose. Taste displays also some grainy berries. Tart, refreshing nd lost of red currants. Brett and horse blanket also. Refreshinga nd actually very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2017
at 06:48