Score
7.79
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375ML, split 3 ways. Wow. gorgeous pour. it's this dark cherry blood red color. wow. the aroma is good. Acidic, tart, lots of raspberry. hmmm. well blended. No vinegar, it's like a fruit salad of flavors, chewy mouthfeel, tasty!
Bottle - pours reddish white head - nose and taste of raspberry, cherry, oak and tart black currant - medium body
Bottle thanks to Ben. Pours a dark ruby with small off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is strong currant, cherry skin, oak, light funk. Thin body, currant, oak, sweet cherry, funky, nice tartness, enjoyed this.
Bottle - Raspberry and nice current. Clear ruby with almost no head. Nice tart berry, raspberry and cranberry. Dry finish.
At Quintessence 2018. Clear red ruby color with pinkish head. Yeasty and malty, spicy herbal, floral, berries, some funky notes. Acidic and light sweet taste. Light to medium thin to oily body with soft carbonation.
Hf flora Pours unclear pinkred. Smsll to no wh head. Smell is intense, herbal. Taste is fu, tart , dry, fruity, milder herbal notes .
Quintessence. Cloudy bright ruby. Super herbal, quite fruity, earthy, perfume, fennel. Medium, tart, no yoghurt, little acidity, bushes, red fruit, but just a bit too mashed. Lingering sour palate. Good, but over the top.
Intensiver, säuerlich kräutriger Beginn. Mild herb, spritzig, trocken bitter. Süffig, runde Würzigkeit. Algen. 10/9/10/9//10
Hill Farmstead's delightful Flora farmhouse ale turned into a fruit beer with fresh blueberries, blackcurrant berries and raspberries; from a 37.5 cl bottle at Cantillon's Quintessence tasting event. Medium thick, moussy but slowly opening, dirty off-pinkish head on top of a hazy, deep and warm ruby red beer with violet tinge. Aroma of a lot of blueberry jam, raspberry yoghurt and indeed some - less explicit - cassis, sourdough, blue grape peel, rhubarb compote, young cheese, sour cream. Crisp sour fruit acidity in the onset, again seemingly more blueberry flavour than raspberry and blackcurrant but with a general 'dark forest fruit' feel to it nonetheless, lemony around its edges and a bit wry due to fruit skin and seed tannins, spritzy carbonation, lingering fruit (even rhubarb-like), drying sourness over a soft, sourdough-like basis, tannic notes further drying the finish - but all the way at the back, the fructose from the berries delivers a trace of sweetness amidst all the tartness. Fascinating sour ale, very genuine and uncompromisingly pure and dry, this is modern American sour at a high level.