Frazzled
Oedipus in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Collab with: LervigBelgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.84
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Fruitsalad (2292) ticked Frazzled from Oedipus 4 years ago
Bierkoning (17781) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. dark brown color with a red haze, Hints of roast, caramel and red fruit in the aroma. Malty sweet, soft roasty caramelly flavor with red fruit. Pleasant.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Blueberry and rhubarb rye stout fermented with saison yeast - a great example of how modern craft beer hybridizes any possible style. Collab of Oedipus with Lervig, this cannot go wrong... Bottle from a Mitra shop in the Netherlands. Creamy, thick, dense, pale greyish beige head with good retention, slowly showing some gaps here and there in the middle, black robe with ruddy brown hue at the edges. Aroma of hazelnut paste, toasted peanuts, stewed rhubarb, blueberry jam and even actual fresh blueberries, toasted brown bread, liquorish, hard butterscotch candy, peanut butter, dried fig, candied orange peel, hints of marmelade, old dry brownies, dough, pear, pipe tobacco, turnip, damp soil, horse steak, fermenting tree leaves, cloves, strawberry coulis, cassis, blue grapes. Fruity onset, peach, blackcurrant and pear sweetishness and sourishness, blueberries are apparent but not overpowering yet providing a fresh, ’real’ fruit sourishness over the sweet core, medium carbonation, bit fizzy, smooth mouthfeel but not as viscous as one would expect from a present-day 7.5% stout. Nutty and caramelly malt sweet backbone with a very thinly metallic edge, adding more toasty, but only very vaguely coffeeish bitterishness towards the end, while the ’dark’ fruit sourishness continues and actually attracts more attention than the maltiness; ends a bit earthy, even slightly ’dirty’, with ongoing blueberry sourishness and estery and malty sweetishness, highlighted by a dash of orange peel-like, aromatic hoppiness, more ’bright’ and less buried under dark malts than usual in a stout, but establishing only a mildly spicy, bit earthy, late and brief bitterness. Spiciness is subtly accentuated by the rye - soggy grey rye bread does spring to mind - and sourishness in turn is accentuated by the wheat, which refrains from becoming overly soapy. Spicy and juicy fruit tartness mixed with fruit sweetness gets the last word - a play of stewed rhubarb and dito blueberries, as was the intention. Heavily roasted bitterness (or ’astringency’ as they put it themselves) remains as good as absent so this beer, in all, has a more porter- or even (especially given the yeast strain) Belgian dubbel-like profile than anything truly stout-like, yet in an elegant, clever way, with the berries and rhubarb given enough stage play. I like the spicy and sweet, genuinely fruity, almost ’foresty’ aspect a well-applied dosage of blueberries can lend to a beer and here this aspect is well played out; the rhubarb is less evident. Has an attractive, rounded malt profile as well. Enjoyable enough, truly a ’fruit stout’ except for the fact that it lacks a bit in ’black’ maltiness, and admittedly I did expect a bit more ’oomph’ from anything with the name Lervig attached to it. Perhaps a bit more black malts ’viscosity’ could make for some improvement.
Koelschtrinker (37410) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Trocken malziger, mild röstiger Antrunk. Mild herb-würzig, leicht erhöhte Karbonisierung. Wenig hefig-kräutrig. Okay. 10/8/8/8/10/8
mart (14808) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at TCBW. Pours dark brown. Aroma is roast, berries. Flavor is sweet and bitter, roast, fruits, berries. Overall: good.
visionthing (9534) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at TCBW, Tallinn. Hazy dark brown with a reddish hue and a beige head. Mild roasty aroma with nice blueberry notes, wood, coffee and hints of roasted malt. Moderat to medium sweet with a surprising acidity, medium flavour intensity and a light bitterness. Weird, but certainly interesting.
Hermod (8273) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from a euro swap, I think. From Maakun? Thanks! Bbe 11/08/2017. Poured dark brown with some red hue like. Dense light brown head. Mild sourness , blueberries, dark chocolate in aroma. Flavor has lots of chocolate, blueberries ate there as well, as is the sourness. Fits quite nicely here. Warming finish with hint of vanilla and milky chocolate. Mild sourness in finish that lasts.
Borresteijn (10497) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl Bottle from Vonk. Deep brown to black colour, beige head. Aroma of chocolate, some sweet raspberry and berries, fudge, Belgian yeast, brownie. Flavour is medium sweet, Belgian Stout, chocolate/pralines, yeast, hint of raspberries, tiny hint of tartness, relatively dry, bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Nice stout, but guess the fruit flavours are a bit unpronounced. I didn’t mind though.
Zlotta (7004) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
0.33 l bottle from ’De Molen’, bottled in August 2016. Clear, very dark red to black with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, beige head. Sweetish, sourish, slightly roasty and moderately fruity aroma of cocoa, coffee, blueberry and rhubarb. Sweetish, a bit sourish, moderately roasty and slightly fruity taste of cocoa, coffee powder, hazelnut, blueberry and maybe hints of rhubarb, followed by a short, slightly roasty-bitter, a bit tart finish. Medium body, slightly creamy, a bit astringent and moderately effervescent mouthfeel, soft to average carbonation. Quite tasty, fortunately just a touch of acidity, well-balanced actually.
potjebier (6091) reviewed Frazzled from Oedipus 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ home (7.5%!). Black color. Beige head with good retention. Aroma’s: roasty, fruit, a bit umami. Retronasal it’s primarily fruit, some roasted malts, drop. Flavor is light sweet, roasted, with some fruity sourness. Medium bodied. Finishes a bit dry, light bitter. I think I could recognize the blueberry, but not the rhubarb.