Score
7.33
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Bottle: Poured a murky orange brown with no head. Aroma is funky. Taste is tart bitter fruity barrel oak.
750 ml bottle into signature tulip glass; blend #2, bottled in 7/2017. Labeled at 6.5%. Pours slightly hazy deep orange/copper color with a 1 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tart lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, golden raisin, cherry, plum, raspberry, melon, red/green apple, red/white wine, hay, straw, herbal, grass, oak, honey, and toasted bread; with lighter notes of caramel, pepper, oaken vanilla, leathery/musty funk, white wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, brandy barrels, and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tart lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, golden raisin, cherry, plum, raspberry, melon, red/green apple, red/white wine, hay, straw, herbal, grass, oak, honey, and toasted bread; with lighter notes of caramel, pepper, oaken vanilla, leathery/musty funk, white wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate lactic tart/sourness and light yeast/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/sour lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, golden raisin, cherry, plum, raspberry, melon, red/green apple, red/white wine, hay, straw, herbal, grass, oak, honey, toasted bread, pepper, leathery/musty funk, white wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, brandy barrels, and moderate bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/tart/sourness balance; and zero puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tart/sourness. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, bready/grainy/acidic, and lightly tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is an excellent wind Biere de Garde style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, brandy barrels, and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to sip on with the moderately acidic/tannic/drying finish, not overly lactic. Great unique take on the style. Classic JK house Brett/Lacto funk complexity, with balanced malts and Brandy barrel notes. Not overly malty or sour either way. A very enjoyable offering.
Reddish orange appearance with a small head. Out Bruin nose, cherry, acidic, grapefruit, lemon and yeast. Well, it’s sour. The yeast though really shines through even to the end. Sweet up front, dry oily finish. has a fermented Smucker’s grape jelly taste to it with a little oak tannic bitterness toward the end.
Bottle. Barnyard nose, brandy, fruit, some yogurt, cherry, raspberry. Amber red color, cloudy, with lace. Flavors of hay, cherry, yogurt, vanilla, and crunchy dried wild flowers. Dry finish, well tart and very funky. Crazy stuff.
Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours murky golden with a frothy offwhite head that leaves a small trace on the glass while dissiapting. Smell is vinous, slightly malty, sliughtly fruity and slightly funky with caramel, bread, lemon juice, moist hay, dry soil, banryrd, charred wood, hazelnuts, leather and brandy alcohol. Taste is tiny sweet, sour, slightly malty, slightly fruity and slightly funky. Mouthfeel is round, slightly dry, tart and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and sour with sourdough crackers, caramel, lemon juice, raisins, moist hay, dry soil, barnyard, leather, charred wood and brandy alcohol. Complex intriguing sour with tons of depth.
Draught@CBC2015. Hazy amber colour with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma is sweet malts, mild herbs/spices, yeast and some citrus. Flavour is quite similar, but also has a nice nutty tone to it.
Draught @ CBC 2015 [ Yellow Session ]. - Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2015, Sparta Hallen, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads 11, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [ As Jester King Reposé ].Unclear medium amber orange color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, wheat, moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, grape - raisin, apple. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, grapes, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150501]
Bottle. Pours dark brown - nose/taste of brandy, oak, caramel, hay and dark fruit - medium body.
From tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2015, Yellow session. Amber copper color with off white head. Yeasty aroma, funky, citrusy, perfume notes, wood, wineous. Sweet bitter and light acidic taste. Light to medium oily body with soft carbonation.