8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
The beer is a slightly orangey yellow gold color. It’s clouded through, but with Solera Weisse, the cloudiness was more due to bottle handling than anything. Thick white head of fine foam. Better head retention than expected, some lacing. The aroma has a funky lemon character. Lemon rind with underlying Meyer sweetness. The lacto flavor is strong but not bitingly acidic. Fairly solid dose of oak pops up. Gentle wheaty malt sweetness in the background. Dusty, fruity funk. Apricot, pineapple. Very good stuff. Taste is mildly dry. Low bitterness. Some acidity from the lemon more than anything. Moderate oak in the finish. Lemon peel, under ripe apricot. Nice grain sweetness rounds off the other flavors. Very refreshing and pleasant. Creamy, soft feel. Relatively low carbonation. This is another excellent entry in the Brewers Cut series.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2016
at 21:55
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The beer is a fairly pale yellow gold. There’s sediment in the bottle, but it settles out, so the clarity kinda depends on the bottle handling. The head is white and a little fizzy, but it settles into a fairly solid layer of foam. Better than expected retention, some lacing. The aroma has a very pleasant lacto character. It’s fruity with a restrained lacto yogurt character. Smells very wine barrel-ish. Sweet grapey note with oak. Apricot, plum, light lemon. Light bready, wheaty background. Taste is gently sour with lots of that nice fruity wine barrel flavor. No real pucker. Gentle sweetness. Very easy to drink and refreshing. The feel is creamy and light. Gentle carbonation. Lemon and oak in the finish. Lots of apricot with light under ripe pineapple. Lots of good stuff going on and absolutely no real negatives. Far too many of these lacto and/or wine barrel sours come out with a strong butter flavor, but this is free of that off-flavor. Excellent beer from Sudwerk. They deserve more praise for these Brewers Cut bottles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2016
at 21:48
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
15th January 2016
That’ll be me 20K then @ ChrisO’s. Thanks to Fergus. Almost clear paleish gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is airy, semi dry and has mild fine carbonation. Nice light malt sweetness, a little cream. Nice mellow lemony vibe into modest generic fruits. Smooth semi dry finish. Very drinkable.
That’ll be me 20K then @ ChrisO’s. Thanks to Fergus. Almost clear paleish gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is airy, semi dry and has mild fine carbonation. Nice light malt sweetness, a little cream. Nice mellow lemony vibe into modest generic fruits. Smooth semi dry finish. Very drinkable.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2016
at 06:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Kenny’s 20K, thanks to Fergus, 15/01/16. Pale golden blonde with little in the way of a head. Nose is light spice, pissoi, sea weed, grassy, trace of lemon. Taste comprises lime-ade, balsa wood, lemon tinged straw, light salt licks, grassy. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a citric wilt/ Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2016
at 16:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at The Davis Beer Shoppe. Apparently imperial because a slightly higher ABV than their baltic porter. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is fruit and dark malt. Darkish fruit. Full bodied. Flavor is lots of heavy, darkish fruit and very dark malt. Seems a bit salty. Not bitter; not dry. Quite tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 May 2016
at 10:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pour is a dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is a mix of sugar and loads of dark fruit. Lots of plumbs and figs. Flavor is pure raison juice with a bit of treacle and toffee. This was such a dark fruit forward beer. One of the best dopple bocks I’ve had in a long time. This beer leaves so much raison on the tongue you may think you are eating a box of sun-maids.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2016
at 19:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at the Davis Neer Shoppe. Pours hazy gold with a transient white head. Sour citrus aroma. Med+ body. Flavor is sour citrusy fruit. Not mouth rending, but quite towards that. Really nice sour.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Apr 2016
at 18:19
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml. bottle from Perry’s. Batch 5. It pours a mostly clear orange color with a white head that shrinks rather quickly. The aroma is really nice. Tons of brett and hops. Funky and tangy with orange, wood, barnyard, passionfruit, grape. Awesome. It reminds me of a Jolly Pumpkin or Anchorage beer, only hoppier. The flavor has lots of wine barrel, orange, passionfruit, vanilla, wet hay, and grape. Pretty much the same as the aroma, only more barrel influence. Very tart, but not overtly sour. Lightly spicy yeast notes in the finish with more barrel and funk. Low bitterness. Lots of hop flavor though. This was really good. Sudwerk getting into the sour game and killing it with this one! Seek it out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2016
at 18:04
7/10
Tried
on 23 Apr 2016
at 14:17
6/10
Tried
on 10 Apr 2016
at 16:48