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Mo' Betta Bretta
Pizza Port Bressi Ranch
- From:
- Pizza Port Bressi Ranch
- California, United States
- Style:
- Brett Beer
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 95
- Avg:
- 4.43 | pDev: 9.48%
- Reviews:
- 19
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 22, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2004
- Wants:
- 78
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Thorpe429 from Illinois
4.4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Huge, huge thanks to CaptainCougar for this very longtime want. Original batch. Served in a snifter. The pour yields a well-carbonated straw-golden-colored brew with a nice white head that falls somewhat quickly, leaving a bit of lacing behind. The nose is quite complex, filled with notes of hay and grass atop some green apple, pineapple, and lemon. Wheaty dryness comes through the nose, though apparently wheat wasn’t used in this brew. The spices are gone, but the Brett notes have really come to the forefront and are absolutely delicious. Straw and some lemon and pineapple notes come through. Earthy character in the background. Body is light-medium with a very dry finish. Absolutely exquisite. Was thrilled to finally see this bottle and it absolutely delivered. Thanks again!
Dec 15, 2012Reviewed by HopHead84 from California
4.05/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
5/26/2012
Huge thanks for the bottle! I've wanted to try this one for ages. Snifter.
A: Yellow orange with an enormous white frothy head. Fast fading but robust.
S: Light pineapple with some pear. Lots of leather with earth and a grainy malt profile. There's a subtle tartness.
T: Tangerine accompanies restrained pineapple notes and a touch of lemon. Lots of earth and leather. Very dry and crisp with a grainy malt profile and a light tartness.
M: Medium body with very high carbonation. The mouthfeel is dry and sticky.
Overall: Highly drinkable. I found this to be really enjoyable. I would have loved to try this in its prime. Looking forward to the new batch.
May 27, 2012Huge thanks for the bottle! I've wanted to try this one for ages. Snifter.
A: Yellow orange with an enormous white frothy head. Fast fading but robust.
S: Light pineapple with some pear. Lots of leather with earth and a grainy malt profile. There's a subtle tartness.
T: Tangerine accompanies restrained pineapple notes and a touch of lemon. Lots of earth and leather. Very dry and crisp with a grainy malt profile and a light tartness.
M: Medium body with very high carbonation. The mouthfeel is dry and sticky.
Overall: Highly drinkable. I found this to be really enjoyable. I would have loved to try this in its prime. Looking forward to the new batch.
Reviewed by hopdog from Pennsylvania
4.5/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
750ml bottle. Sample courtesy of EDA. Bottle #405.
Poured a lighter yellow color with a large, quickly diminishing white head. Aromas of citrus, grass and yeast. Lightly sour tasting. Pineapple. Refreshing and crisp. Lively and fizzy body.
Notes from 1/16/05
Nov 07, 2008Poured a lighter yellow color with a large, quickly diminishing white head. Aromas of citrus, grass and yeast. Lightly sour tasting. Pineapple. Refreshing and crisp. Lively and fizzy body.
Notes from 1/16/05
Reviewed by illidurit from California
4.5/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.5/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Another big thanks to cquiroga for excavating this rarity for the RBSG 08 Grand Tasting. Pours a pale gold with a sticky white head. Lemony gueuze aroma with a big dose of earthy brett funk. Flavor is lemony and cidery with some pineapple sweetness and a dry musty brett finish. Crisp and drinkable.
Aug 07, 2008Reviewed by orbitalr0x from Illinois
4.7/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.7/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
750ml bottle from Solana Beach. Hand bottle #88. My first beer of the new year pours into my glass a hazy yellow orange with lots of carbonation that brings on a big fizzy white head above the brew. It sticks at half an inch and doesn't go away. Aromas start with a big fruity nose with tropical and citric accents. Pineapple is there with a crisp grain backbone, slightly toasted. Sour, musty funkiness moves in big time from the 100% Brett yeast.
First sip brings a nice crisp, slightly sweet grain maltiness quickly followed by a myriad of fruity flavors. Citrus and tropical flavors run all over the place. Sour, funky mustiness moves in as it flows down and doesn't become overpowering but melds in perfectly with the overall brew. Mellow herbal hops are just barley noticeable on the finish as it ends crisp, dry and smoothly in perfect harmony. This one shows off how tasty a 100% Brett brew can be.
Mouthfeel is crisp and on the lighter side with wonderful bursts of carbonation. Goes down easy and ends up being very refreshing. Just an amazing, contemplative brew here. I only wish I had more than this one bottle. I can't wait to try the Lost Abbey reincarnation of this one. Wow.
Jan 02, 2008First sip brings a nice crisp, slightly sweet grain maltiness quickly followed by a myriad of fruity flavors. Citrus and tropical flavors run all over the place. Sour, funky mustiness moves in as it flows down and doesn't become overpowering but melds in perfectly with the overall brew. Mellow herbal hops are just barley noticeable on the finish as it ends crisp, dry and smoothly in perfect harmony. This one shows off how tasty a 100% Brett brew can be.
Mouthfeel is crisp and on the lighter side with wonderful bursts of carbonation. Goes down easy and ends up being very refreshing. Just an amazing, contemplative brew here. I only wish I had more than this one bottle. I can't wait to try the Lost Abbey reincarnation of this one. Wow.
Reviewed by CharlesDarwin from Rhode Island
4/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Originally reviewed March 31, 2007. Pour from a 750mL. Aroma starts as a unique banana skin with fragrant herbal tartness. Orange-gold pour, with a bubbling foam of white. Flavor has a crisp pale fruit composition, harboring floral starfruit, passionfruit, old pineapple juice and some peculiar coconut juices. Bretty the whole way through (duh). Smacks nicely dry and clean with some musty Pakistani spices. Very unique. Cant wait to see this as a Lost Abbey. Thanks Chris!
Jul 21, 2007Reviewed by egajdzis from Pennsylvania
3.9/5 rDev -12%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -12%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured a opaque, cloudy, pale, yellow color with spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma was sweet and spicy brett, funky barnyard, and orange citrus. The taste was brett and some tart lemon and grape peels. Medium carbonation, this came off rather thin to me. Mouthpuckering, this reminded me of a gueuze.
Aug 09, 2005Reviewed by francisweizen from Washington
4.92/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.92/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Dark peachy orange with a nice huge head of eggy froth. Tons of tiny bubbles make up for a massive carbonation that tickles the nose, and dances on every tastebud of the tongue. Aromas are super bretty and the aromas include horse blanket and various farmy notes, as well as some peppery booze, citrus fruits, and more gueuxe-y sour laden notes. Taste is awesome! All about the brett from the get-go. Funky tastes abound as well as peppery hops, and sour lambicy notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, but not quite perfect. Drinkability, however, is quite perfect! A wonderful beer, sampled on a very fun evening in Michigan...
Jul 18, 2005Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.7/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.7/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
From my notes: 750ml. bottle, unlabelled; original gravity 1.060; brewed from 2-row pale malt, wheat, and cara-pils; magnum hops used for bittering; 100% fermented with Brettanomyces anamolous; given a 3 week primary fermentation; care must be taken in opening the bottle due to excessive carbonation - treat it as you would champagne; an excellent example of the flavors and aromas produced by Brettanomyces for anyone who's unfamiliar.
Upon opeining, the head wants to climb out of the bottle; but carefully poured, it delivers a hazy golden body beneath a huge head of bright-white froth that displays excellent retention and delivers brilliant Brussels lace. Tiny, streaming, effervescent bubbles can be seen rising to buoy the head.
The nose offers a "clean" Brett character with the typical stable-like, wet wool, and mildly feral-like characteristics that are to be expected. What malt is there is limited; and apart from the Brett only a touch of citrus-like acidity comes through from the acetic acid.
It's fairly light-bodied and zesty in the mouth due to its effervescent carbonation.
The flavor is not as acidic as might be expected (...thinking of the acidity of a lambic.... but there's only Brett here), and some lightly sweet malt comes through amidst it's acetic acid tartness. Citrusy fruit and a cloud of barnyard wafts billow life into it, giving it a greater character and refreshing dryness. The bitterness is restrained, but amidst the tartness and dusty, mineral-like dryness of the Brett it's not really needed. It finishes dry with some residual dusty farmyard memories, but for the most part it passes away quickly, leaving you refreshed and ready for another sip.
It's really quite an unusual beer (Vinnie's Sanctification from Russian River, and the Prof's Flemish Wild Ale are the only others I can think of right off hand...), and it's absolutely not to be missed.
May 29, 2005Upon opeining, the head wants to climb out of the bottle; but carefully poured, it delivers a hazy golden body beneath a huge head of bright-white froth that displays excellent retention and delivers brilliant Brussels lace. Tiny, streaming, effervescent bubbles can be seen rising to buoy the head.
The nose offers a "clean" Brett character with the typical stable-like, wet wool, and mildly feral-like characteristics that are to be expected. What malt is there is limited; and apart from the Brett only a touch of citrus-like acidity comes through from the acetic acid.
It's fairly light-bodied and zesty in the mouth due to its effervescent carbonation.
The flavor is not as acidic as might be expected (...thinking of the acidity of a lambic.... but there's only Brett here), and some lightly sweet malt comes through amidst it's acetic acid tartness. Citrusy fruit and a cloud of barnyard wafts billow life into it, giving it a greater character and refreshing dryness. The bitterness is restrained, but amidst the tartness and dusty, mineral-like dryness of the Brett it's not really needed. It finishes dry with some residual dusty farmyard memories, but for the most part it passes away quickly, leaving you refreshed and ready for another sip.
It's really quite an unusual beer (Vinnie's Sanctification from Russian River, and the Prof's Flemish Wild Ale are the only others I can think of right off hand...), and it's absolutely not to be missed.
Reviewed by IceAce from California
4.7/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.7/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Bottle # 424
Boy, this stuff had no intention of remaining cooped-up in the 750ml bottle after slooowly prying off the cap. It had to have been a five minute process in a failed effort to ensure every golden drop made it into my BJ's Crand Cru glass.
Aroma is funky...and all over my hands after wrangling a little over eight ounces into my glass. The nose is funky dry, funky sweet, with a sharp phenolic pineapple thrust which simply tears through your olfactory. Apparance is hazy gold with a stark white collar of foam constantly fed by a never-ending source of CO² from within the body.
Finally, the first sip. Oh my...this is surely different! Entry is forged by the burly, take-no-prisoners prickly carbonation.and a delightful sweetness around the perimeter of the tongue. Midtaste begins as a dry wave followed by the wild brett targeting a bullseye square in the middle of the tongue with funk.
Dry Funk.
Very dry funk.
That said, the finish leads with a hop hint making a halfhearted effort to push back the wild yeast...but to no avail (thank goodness!). This brew fades away slowly with flashes of sweet fruit, tart yeast, and all the goodness that a guy named Tomme and Two Guys named Jeff could squeeze into a bottle!
May 17, 2005Boy, this stuff had no intention of remaining cooped-up in the 750ml bottle after slooowly prying off the cap. It had to have been a five minute process in a failed effort to ensure every golden drop made it into my BJ's Crand Cru glass.
Aroma is funky...and all over my hands after wrangling a little over eight ounces into my glass. The nose is funky dry, funky sweet, with a sharp phenolic pineapple thrust which simply tears through your olfactory. Apparance is hazy gold with a stark white collar of foam constantly fed by a never-ending source of CO² from within the body.
Finally, the first sip. Oh my...this is surely different! Entry is forged by the burly, take-no-prisoners prickly carbonation.and a delightful sweetness around the perimeter of the tongue. Midtaste begins as a dry wave followed by the wild brett targeting a bullseye square in the middle of the tongue with funk.
Dry Funk.
Very dry funk.
That said, the finish leads with a hop hint making a halfhearted effort to push back the wild yeast...but to no avail (thank goodness!). This brew fades away slowly with flashes of sweet fruit, tart yeast, and all the goodness that a guy named Tomme and Two Guys named Jeff could squeeze into a bottle!
Reviewed by Bighuge from Minnesota
4.45/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Bottle # 255.
The beer is golden and murky (to say the least). A big ol crop of white foam is formed on top and slowly dwindles to a nice one finger sized head that sticks around for some time. Lacing is full. What a strong aroma! Pineapple juice and mild farmyard tones mix nicely. Other tropical fruits seem to be present on the nose as well. What a medley. A nice little melange of tropical tones is perceived on the palate as well. Pineapple is the one I perceive to be the strongest. There is some tartness to this beer, but not overpowering by any means. It adds a nice touch. Lemon peel and orange rind come to mind also. Pink grapefruit pulp. There's really an extraordinary amount of unique fruity tones in this one. The mouthfeel started out seeming a little too gaseous, but after a while, it mellowed out. As I made my way through this bottle I realized I was on a journey. From the onset, I was not quite sure of this Brett character. By the end of it, I came to enjoy it quite a bit. I can see how it could indeed become addictive. And my burps bring me back to my lab days. Toluene comes to mind. Whew!! Toxic stuff. But damn alluring...
I must thank my crack dealer, I mean Port dealer once again. The Long Beach Bum. I'm the addict and he is my supplier. Many thanks to one of the site's most easy going and knowledgeable advocates.
Mar 04, 2005The beer is golden and murky (to say the least). A big ol crop of white foam is formed on top and slowly dwindles to a nice one finger sized head that sticks around for some time. Lacing is full. What a strong aroma! Pineapple juice and mild farmyard tones mix nicely. Other tropical fruits seem to be present on the nose as well. What a medley. A nice little melange of tropical tones is perceived on the palate as well. Pineapple is the one I perceive to be the strongest. There is some tartness to this beer, but not overpowering by any means. It adds a nice touch. Lemon peel and orange rind come to mind also. Pink grapefruit pulp. There's really an extraordinary amount of unique fruity tones in this one. The mouthfeel started out seeming a little too gaseous, but after a while, it mellowed out. As I made my way through this bottle I realized I was on a journey. From the onset, I was not quite sure of this Brett character. By the end of it, I came to enjoy it quite a bit. I can see how it could indeed become addictive. And my burps bring me back to my lab days. Toluene comes to mind. Whew!! Toxic stuff. But damn alluring...
I must thank my crack dealer, I mean Port dealer once again. The Long Beach Bum. I'm the addict and he is my supplier. Many thanks to one of the site's most easy going and knowledgeable advocates.
Reviewed by ppoitras from Massachusetts
4.85/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.85/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
750ml bottle obtained via trade with oggg. Thanks for the opportunity... Hand-bottled #243.
OK, so it freaking exploded upon uncapping. Great smelling beer foam everywhere. Guess I should have been a bit more prepared when opening such an artisinal brew, let that be a lesson to me. Anyways...
Poured *carefully* into a Rapscallion glass, formed a 2" off-white head over the murky, almost translucent gold brew. Whoever heard of a gold-hued brew that seems to not let light pass? Head keeps rejuvenating itself due to the vigorous carbonation that continues to be generated from the bottom of the glass. After the carbonation slows down, head quickly falls to a layer of bubbles over the liquid.
Delicate, yet foamy lacing left randomly along the sides of the glass. Aroma is pungently fruity, with a dryness to it. Taste is light, earthy fruits, a bit citrusy, leaving the tongue feeling pleasantly dry and tickled. Mouthfeel is incredible, just floats over the tongue so nicely, tart but not too, and drinkability would be superb, if I could get more. Worth the trouble to track down, for sure.
Feb 16, 2005OK, so it freaking exploded upon uncapping. Great smelling beer foam everywhere. Guess I should have been a bit more prepared when opening such an artisinal brew, let that be a lesson to me. Anyways...
Poured *carefully* into a Rapscallion glass, formed a 2" off-white head over the murky, almost translucent gold brew. Whoever heard of a gold-hued brew that seems to not let light pass? Head keeps rejuvenating itself due to the vigorous carbonation that continues to be generated from the bottom of the glass. After the carbonation slows down, head quickly falls to a layer of bubbles over the liquid.
Delicate, yet foamy lacing left randomly along the sides of the glass. Aroma is pungently fruity, with a dryness to it. Taste is light, earthy fruits, a bit citrusy, leaving the tongue feeling pleasantly dry and tickled. Mouthfeel is incredible, just floats over the tongue so nicely, tart but not too, and drinkability would be superb, if I could get more. Worth the trouble to track down, for sure.
Mo' Betta Bretta from Pizza Port Bressi Ranch
Beer rating:
95 out of
100 with
27 ratings
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