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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7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 8
Head gone after ample seconds. Looks as white wine for all the world. End of bottle solid deposit. Wormwood, pepper, apples, fennel, sage. Medium acidity, cider, sage, rosemary, again some wormwood. Bone-dry. Feels much better carbonated than it looks. Dry-out effect and some acidthinning. This is out of this world. Utterly original and tantalising. L&L keeps producing gems.
Tried from Bottle at Dr. Beer - Bar & Shop on 16 Aug 2025 at 08:58

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 7
750ml bottle. Cloudy, purple colour with small, frothy fading, minimally pink-ish, white head. Sweet-ish, fruity and slightly lactic aroma, notes of sweet cherry, raspberry, a touch of sauerkraut. Taste is sour, lactic, fruity, notes of sauerkraut, minimally diluted hints of raspberry and cherry.
Minimally oily, watery texture, astringent, simultaneously minimally greasy palate, medium, dense, prickly carbonation.
Wonderful nose, a bit rough concerning taste - OK.
Tried from Bottle from Pakhuis Twente on 20 Jun 2025 at 20:55

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
From tap at Café Pardaf, Antwerpen. Nicely dry just as I like my Saison. Wheaty pale malt, some funk. Tart and sour, fruity notes including some citrus, stone fruit. Medium body, dry finish. Lovely.
Tried from Draft on 25 Jan 2025 at 06:59

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
20 cl Teku tulip draft at Beer Lovers Bar in Antwerp, Belgium. The pour is a slight hazed orange golden with a foamy white head that falls slow with nice lace. The aroma is earth, dirt, funk and a mild lactic sour. The taste is big sour up front, moving to citrus, wheat grain and then some nice mineral. Much smoother than the nose suggested. The palate is sparkling carbonation, medium to light bodied with a funk and lactic finish. Fun one, glad I was able to try it.
Tried from Draft on 10 Nov 2024 at 23:34

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours clear blonde. Small white head. Scent is dusty oak, lactic acid-like clean acidity. Mildly malty. Taste is crispy acidic, dry, mild lemon, wheat, lactic acid. Fairly sharp, drying. Oak. Medium-low intense carbonation. Medium body. Very decent, a bit symplistic in it's acidity, but i've had far, far worse. Enjoyable.
Tried on 18 May 2024 at 18:25

8/10
Great Irish geuze!
Tried from Draft on 16 Mar 2024 at 21:40

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
18/I/24 - 37.5cl bottle @ ElManana+1’s place, BB: 27/X/25 0855 (2024-42) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!

Clear blond yellow beer, practically no head. Aroma: nice, lots of brett, funky, fruity, lemony, a bit spicy, wood notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity, lemony, clean funk, more lemon, sour, fruity, a bit spicy. Aftertaste: dry, funky, sourish, lemon, peaches, apricot, nice acidity, juicy, good one!
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2024 at 20:00

8.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle 37.5 caged and corked bbd 1/2025. Slightly hazy deep golden colour, tiny fizzy quickly disappearing head, no lacing, Quite subtle aroma, brett, tart, barnyard, gooseberries, herbal notes, some wood. Round taste, medium sour and slightly sweet, brett, tart, gooseberries, green apples, barnyard, woody notes, bit peppery. Medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation, dry sour aftertaste, some sweetness, very much geuze-alike, gooseberries and green apples, well-balanced, very good.
Tried from Bottle from De Tros on 03 Jan 2024 at 16:24

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle 750 ml, courtesy of Eric. Shared with him and Miro B at Cellar above ground. Cloudy reddish orange, short lasting white head. Nice subtle, smooth profile, some barrel, blueberries. Juicy.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2023 at 04:37

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Bottle, at share, thanks to Chris M. Pours red. Raspberry, cherry, tart, funk, vinegar, sweet cherry, berry, hedgerow. Medium body. Good.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2023 at 01:49