Land & Labour

Client Brewer in Galway, County Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪

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Land & Labour is a side project from Galway Bay Brewery head brewer, Tom Delaney, focused in sour and wild beers. Their aim is to create mixed fermentation beers with Bretts and wild yeasts, without reaching a high acidity. They have created a separated environment for this side project, and imported aged foeders from Italy, France or Switzerland. It was started in 2018, and their first available references where presented in 2020.

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8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 7 Overall 8.5
Small, pinkish head, irregular, fast gone over veiled red to terra-cotta beer. Sharpish barnyard & red berries' nose. Outspoken vinous character and aroma's. Vinous in flavour as well, with a sharp fruitacid & lactic ending. Honeyish, blossomy, but all sugars consumed. Watered fresh berry jam, redcurrant. Light body, feel is almost watery, as enhanced by acidthinning & spritzy carbonation.Very good fruitbeer. Maybe the flavours might be more bold, more explosive. Not easy with blueberries, but not impossible.
Tried from Bottle from Borger Bottles on 26 Apr 2021 at 09:35

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Head, as white rim, gone in seconds; clear darker golden beer, not very carbonated. Lactic acid, bit diary. Green fruit, rhubarb, unripe yellow fruit. Light barnyard odours, delicate. Sour fruit again in the mouth, really tart, unripe bananapeel. Again hints at barnyard. Acidbite, lipsmacking acidity, dry-out effect, serious acidthinning. Mild carbonation. It's not a gueuze. But it comes pretty near.
Tried from Bottle from Borger Bottles on 25 Apr 2021 at 07:42

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Very good, fluffy, very lightly yellowish head, fed by lively carbonated veiled ochre beer. Intense farmyard odours, lemon, wild yeasts, not unlike floormop Bretts, lemonrind, orangerind. Very lemony flavour if mild acidity; bone dry, even dry-out effect. Wild yeasts galore. Sharpish feel, some acidburn and acidthinning, Champenoise pearling. Excellent, simply excellent.
Tried from Bottle from Borger Bottles on 18 Apr 2021 at 19:30

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Murky orange with a thin head. Aroma of yeast and wheat. Flavour is sour Belgian, zesty grain on a long sour wheat finish.
Tried on 10 Apr 2021 at 19:40

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Blended sour ale (made in Ireland), part of which has been mixed-fermented and barrel aged, thanks to 77ships for sharing. Egg-white, bubbly, thin head fizzing away like the foam on a glass of coke in instants, misty yellow-gold robe with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of green gooseberries, unripe pineapple, green kiwi, crabapple, sourdough, Conference pear, chalk. Tart onset, lots of green fruit, gooseberries, sour grapes and green plums, apple peel, some unripe stonefruit wryness, medium carb with smooth mouthfeel; cereally, white-bready malt core under drying lactic sourness with a fruity character, quite refreshing, with a sour green apple note growing stronger towards the end. Strong tannic grape skin and wood effects lend the finish a vinous, drying, rich character. More than decent sour ale (or ‘saison’ as Anglo-Saxon lore dictates that saison should apparently be a form of sour ale, contrary to the actual Belgian saisons of nowadays), pleasant and enjoyable for sure.
Tried on 07 Apr 2021 at 12:01

9.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 10 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
half champagne bottle. no to odjechali irlandczycy z tym dzikim 3 letnim saisonem. coz za fermentacja i blend, kto by sie spodziewal ze posmakuje mi tu Pajotenlandem. zielona butelka z zielona etykieta tak jak koniczynka irlandzka skrywa moze nie takze zielone szyszki chmielne bo tu jest ich malenko, ale nie oto chodzi w saisonie, jest dziko, farmersko stajennie wrecz, podczas nalewania daleko bylem nozdrzami od malenkiej szklaneczki St. Feuillien saison glass a wyczulem mocno skorzane wkladki do butow, konskie siodlo, stajnie i mnostwo siana suchego w stodole. bardzo kwasne dzikie, agrestowo gronowe, mocno wytrawne cierpkie i po prostu fantastyczne
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2021 at 22:07

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2021 at 17:58

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle from Hoptimism. Initial sweet musty Blueberry aroma, before it becomes more vinous and earthy. Although the sweetness remains in the underflow. Ruby coloured, with a gold tinge. Foamy white head dies away in seconds. The flava caught me unawares. Sour with sweet and dry Blueberry. However the sourness then intensifies and a real tartness comes through. Mouth like a cat's bum time. Fruity and vinous. Underlying hints of sweetness. Medium bodied. It's probably slick but has a sedimentary mouthfeel and it's the dryness that really makes its mark, alongside average carbonation. Nice enough. Possibly too dry, I'd like more Blueberry juice.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2020 at 21:35

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2020 at 21:39

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 23 Oct 2020 at 21:14