Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, RBESG 2012 grand tasting. Hazy yellow to golden colour. Aroma strong fruity, wild yeasts, sour, pretty promising. Heavy sour taste, fruity, sour apples, peach/apricot. Dry sour finish. Good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled on the RBSG bus. Orange-blonde color. Flat. Funky lemon and cream nose. Yogurt, lemon, and vanilla flavors, well sour. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle, RBESG 2012 grand tasting. Amber to brown colour. Aroma blackberry, plum, raisins, rot. Taste heavy sour, taste buds massacre. Finish is completely dry, medium sour with tartness. Rather extreme beer. Minus points because I could not drink a pint of this thing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
75 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and light spiced. Tart, citric, orange zest, fruity and bretty. Dry and citric into a tart finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
RBESG 12. Poured a lovely misty red body. The nose isn’t immediately appealing, feces mixing with various bretty note, blackberrieas and maybe some caramel. The taste is soft though to counter the sourness, and the berries show themselves through the brett. All in all, quite nice!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
RBESG Grand Tasting. Hazy golden color with small white head. Fruity aroma with peaches, apricots, citrus. Tart taste with peaches, citrus and wood. Dry finish. Good one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
RBESG Grand Tasting. Purple amber colored beer. Aroma of blackberries, caramel, toffee. Tart taste with blackberries, citrus, vanilla. Dry finish. Nice beer.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
RBESG Grand Tasting. Cloudy golden with a tiny white head. Aweeeesome funky aroma with oak, leather, grass, brett, and a hint of peaches. Dry and tart flavour with some lemon juice and sour peach, and with a malty or even popcorn-like flavour
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
RBESG Grand Tasting. Complex and refined aroma, toffee, caramel, blackberry, funk. Dry and tart flavour of blackberry, pineapple, funky brett and a hint of oak
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle number 114/857 fro, the March 2012 batch. Pours with a deep violet purple hued body with a frothy off-white head that slowly fades. From far away the room fills with the aromas of jammy fruity blackberries, a light earthiness and a vinous red wine (pinot-ish) aromas. On closer inspection there is some very bright fruit, medium funky brett. Light butyric. Low grain, very vinous. Flavors are very nice: jammy fruit, bright blackberry, good acidity, clean lactic and malic sourness. Very vinous, red wine like. Oak, tannic finish (berry and wood). Low phenol, medium-low funk. Very nice fruit character. Lactic sourness, no real noticeable acetic components. Cleaner and more berry forward than my homebrewed blackberry sour, but also less funky and acidic. Lively carbonation, medium light bodied. Elegant. Very well made! Probably my favorite from Crooked Stave so far!