jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Melange de Mures from Springdale Beer Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at Sour’d - pours pink white head - nose/taste of blackerry, funk, lactic sour wine - medium body
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Cuvée d'Or Rouge from Springdale Beer Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draught at Meadhall, 7/27/16.
Deep copper-golden with slight auburn hues and a moderately-high clarity. Beige head atop is small and shows moderate to low retention.
Lots of red wine and oak in the nose, primarily oak. Strong toasty-vanilla character with a bit of butteriness and lactic and brett acids behind it. Fruit seems completely faded at this point, if there was indeed fruit in here at one point. Not alcoholic and some people will appreciate the big oakiness, but I don’t care for that at all. Smells more like a toasted oak barrel than a beer.
Similar strong oak dominance in the flavor. While it’s not obnoxiously overdone, I do think it is still too dominant. Behind it, soft wood tannins, light honey-caramel malt notes and mild brett and lactic acids seem well-balanced. Carbonation low but still fairly engaging. Medium body and a good amount of substantial texture. No alcohol or flaw. Light wine notes, wood and toasted oak lingering.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Melange de Mures from Springdale Beer Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at Meadhall on 7/27/16.
Beautiful, deep, magenta-tinged, dark violet body shows good clarity and a light beige, pink-flecked head showing moderate retention.
Blackberry is juicy and tart alongside moderate lactic character. Some lightly buttery oak and hints of vanilla and cream-like maltiness balance but don’t really dampen the brightness. Not a huge aroma, which was odd, like their other sours. Not really sure what’s dampening it, but there’s no flaw or alcohol.
Really nice blackberry and lactic mix, though it’s not too sour (quite tart and acidic on the end). There’s a honey-cream-like maltiness that brings forth more of the meatiness of the blackberries, as well as plentiful wood tannin softness and a very tight carbonation. Awesome stuff, favorite of their sours.
GenDV138 (9249) reviewed Cuvee d'Bandwagon from Springdale Beer Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
4 oz pour on draft at Jack’s Abby. Consumed on 4/21/2016. March/April 2016 batch dry hopped with Saaz and Chinook. Clear golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of musty oak, white wine, grapes. Tastes of wine, musty oak, stone fruit, grapes. Medium body with a dry finish. Pretty nice.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Cuvee d'Bandwagon from Springdale Beer Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at Row 34, 11/18/15.
They are so god damned not-forthcoming about detailed information on their sour barrel project beers. Occasionally they will feature one on their blog/website/twitter, but they’ve put out what, 11 or 12 of them, or something like that? The vast majority you just get "Sour lager with cranberries" or what we have here "golden lager soured in wine barrels with X dry hops." I don’t know, I just feel like these beers are so time-consuming that you’d definitely want to say a lot about them when releasing them. Anyways, pretty irrelevant to the actual beer, end rant.
Golden beer with a small white, rapidly fleeting head and good clarity (light haziness).
Not knowing the accuracy of the commercial deScription and finding nothing more about this beer online than that, I was unsure if there was fruit in it. Because it certainly smells a whole lot like blueberry skin and/or cranberry pulp. Very floral, poignantly spicy and with a very dry fruitiness. Turns out, no fruit and this is just the manifestation of the wood mixing with the grape character. It’s interesting and also makes room for very light brett fruitiness (light citrus skin, bit of funk). Cracker-like character is all that can be gleaned from the malts, in the nose.
A little less wood and grape-driven in the flavor, with a bit more rounded fruitiness, some moderate honey-like sweetness and a pretty tight carbonation that helps add a perceived creaminess, to some extent. Acidity is moderate to moderately-high but not crude or obnoxious. For as much grape and wood character as the beer has, there’s little/no astringency, which is quite impressive. Hops add tropical fruits, light citrus and really do a good job of mimicking/supplementing the yeast and wine-derived fruitiness.