Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Poured a hazy straw colour with a frothy white head. The aroma is big bretty sour vinegar. The flavour is acid sour with a light crispy super acid citrus palate. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Way too sour for me. Takes the lining off the back of your throat.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

17th September 2015
Hazy gold beer, tidy white head. Bretty sherbet nose. Palate is light, semi dry and has a sharp minerally crispness. Bretty sourness going to a mildly acid lemon. More brett and ripe orange before the crisp dry finish. Nice.

F00k Y3S

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

Bottle at ash’s. Pours hazy yellow, nose is funky, pickles, light fruit, taste is light rubber, funky, dry, bretty, linger of bbq sauce.

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

Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - golden with a golden yellow and a thin head. Nose - intriguing tropical fruits and smoky barbecue. Like a burnt papaya on a horse blanket. Taste - tangy, smoky and tropical fruit in the same mouthfeel. Woody Palate -close to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - a beer of individual personality. Great.

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

Bottle at Ashton McCobb’s. Pours hazy pale gold with a thin white head. Aromas of funky, horse blanket, rubber tyres, the mouldy peaches. Farmyard. Taste is sour and tangy. Dry finish.

Last wee tasting of the summer

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle from The Beerhive. Hazy golden body with a medium white head. Lively carbonation. Light lacing. Aroma of pineapple sherbet, Orval and vinegar. A promising start... but the flavour is horrible - tart berries, lemon juice and a gulp of vinegar. Medium body with a spritzy mouthfeel. Very fizzy. Thiis smelled quite appealling but the taste is far too sharp and sour. Undrinkable.

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

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; hazy golden yellow pour with a thin white head, aroma has major funk plus some assertive citrus action, taste has big metallic brett, citrus, some biscuit malt backbone, tart fruits, I quite liked this, if somebody asked me what brett tastes like I’d give them this.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

330ml bottle, take-out from Birmingham Beer Bash 2015. Pours murky orange, no head. Aroma is sour Duchesse balsamic vinegar. Taste is a big initial hit of pickled onion Monster Munch. Sour, tangy, vinegary. Kind of on the fence with this one. It couldn’t possibly have been the intended result. The elderflower is most certainly lost. A few more sips quells the pickled onion and focusses on the intense sour elements. Contemplated pouring down the sink, and after another sip I did just that.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Archer Road Beer Stop, Sheffield. Hazy orange. Minimal head. Lemon. Earth. Paper. Grubby coins. Taste is acetic tart. Palate is sharp. Finishes short, acetic tart. When Mad Hatter get it right, their beer sings. This, though, is one of those rare, big misses. Shouldn’t have got beyond the brewery.