7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
American sour from a 75 cl bottle served at Tim Webb’s masterclass during Carnivale Brettanomyces. Light gushing upon opening, resulting in a coarse, off-white head dissolving due to badly cleaned tasting glass; colour is a hazy, peachy straw blonde. Aroma is very estery and tart and immediately reminds of the Brettanomyces lambicus this is brewed with; lemon zest, starfruit, dry white wine, old sherry, grapefruit peel, field flowers, wet leather, red apple. Fresh lemony acidity in the onset, unripe grapes and sour berries but still relatively soft and gentle in comparison with many Belgian lambics, somewhat spritzy carbo, very lightly malty underneath but not turning sweetish - instead there is a good basic wheat sourishness in the lead. Finishes quite complex, with drying tartness of course, lemony and refined and a bit puckering, horseblanket Brett flavours and some powdery yeastiness. Nice sour ale if you’re into lambics, elegant, but more a kind of compromise between a farmhouse ale and a lambic than an actual lambic beer. Still, recommended for the sour lovers.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2015
at 15:30