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 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pours unclear blonde. Small white head. Scent is full, funky, apricot, brett. very vibrant. taste is tart, vibrant, apricot (intense) , lovely balanced. Buttery, lactic acid, bit more complex than just only Lactic acid though. Lovely enough !
Tried on 14 Mar 2022 at 13:05

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
375ml bottle. Funky, tart and slightly vinous grapey with some fruits, citrus, hints of green apples, hay and farmyard, hints of yeastiness and peach. Okay, pretty refreshing.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2022 at 20:01

9.1/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 9.5 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
Deep pink head over slightly hazy red-pink to purple beer. Intense, overpowering sour cherry nose with in the background perfumey raspberry. An almost unbelievable intense red fruit - both sour cherry and raspberry - flavour, totally integrated with the beer imposing themselves as ultimate character. Light acidthinning and -burn, refreshing and sparkling. Absolutely amongst the best fruitbeers recently sampled. Cudo's to the brewer!
Tried from Bottle from Borger Bottles on 06 Feb 2022 at 11:44

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Etre. Deep burgundy with a very shortlived fuzzy pinkish head. Sour cherries, raspberry kernels, quite puckering. SLight funk in the aroma. Not very complex but quite tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2022 at 20:45

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
Head gone in seconds; hazy, faintly orangey golden beer. Lambic-y smell with lots of fruit, apricot brandy. Apricot, peach, again apricot brandy, faint lactic acid, faintly mild yellow spices. Acidthinning; lipsmacking acidity, medium to good carbonation. Very good fruitsour, nose almost made it lambic-y.
Tried from Bottle from Borger Bottles on 30 Jan 2022 at 09:56

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
375ml bottle. Opalescent, yellow-ish, golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, snow white head. Mildly bretty, funky, tangy and vinous fruity, yeasty, slightly herbal and woody aroma, notes of brine, mustard seed, white grapes, a touch of oak, tarragon, dill. Taste is tart, tangy, vinous fruity, mildly woody, slightly citrusy hoppy, mildly bretty, funky yeasty, notes of white grapes, some brine, mustard seed, tarragon, lemon peel, oak. Oily texture, smooth and soft, minimally astringent palate, fine, mildly prickly carbonation. Very harmonious, homogeneous and balanced, rich and manifold - very good!
Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2022 at 01:12

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
375ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, yellow-ish golden colour with average to huge, frothy, fading, white head. Herbal-spicy, tangy aroma, a touch of white balsamico, oaky overtones. Taste is mildly tart, slightly tangy and herbal-spicy,, notes of herbs, a touch of oak, white grapes; lingering, dry finish. Watery texture, dry, minimally astringent palate, medium to fine, prickly carbonation. Rather mild, homogeneous - not bad.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2021 at 22:29

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle from Etre. Slightly cloudy orange with white head. Tart yoghurt, wood, some funk. Citrus, stone fruit. A bit light and simplistic yet quite tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2021 at 22:49

7/10
On tap at Cafe Pardaf. A slightly hazy yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma of sweet apples, sulfur, yellow fruits. Taste of tart orange fruits zest, vinegar, grapes, oak.
Tried from Draft on 13 Nov 2021 at 21:46

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5

Bottle 375ml. @ [ Trinntorp 🇸🇪 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡 💻👀

[ As Land & Labour / WhiteFrontier Screaming Trees ].
ABV: 5.2%. ✅ Haxy - murky medium yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, juniper, pine - spruce, kveik yeast, sour. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet pine - spruce, citrus - juniper, sweet malt, fruity malt, sweet yeast - kveik yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20211030]
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Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2021 at 21:57