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Elder Brett
Epic Brewing Company
- From:
- Epic Brewing Company
- Utah, United States
- Style:
- Saison
Ranked #360 - ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #8,809 - Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 9.65%
- Reviews:
- 108
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 30, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 28, 2012
- Wants:
- 31
- Gots:
- 71
Epic Brewing Company’s latest barrel-aged beer brings something new—wild yeast. This brew is a collaboration ale with Crooked Stave Artisan Brewing of Fort Collins, Colorado. Chad Yakobson, brewmaster/owner of Crooked Stave, is well known for his skill and knowledge in the brewing of sour and Brettanomyces driven beers. The beer was brewed at Epic by the two brewers. Kevin Crompton, Epic’s brewmaster, and Chad spent several weeks working on the recipe and selecting the proper Brett strains and barrels for the beer to morph from a golden Sasion into a Saison-Brett Golden Ale.
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Ratings by kagent777:
Reviewed by kagent777 from Utah
4.33/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
4.33/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
Bomber directly from the brewery poured into my perfect pint. This one is from release two, with 9.5 %ABV. Epic website does not have info up for batch two. This was released fairly recently.
Appearance: A nice effervescent crystal clear pale straw. Lots of nice bubbles streaming to the surface, almost looks like champagne. Leaves a sheet of lacing as I drink it down.
Smell: I get a lot of white wine notes that smell very dry and almost sharp. I do not get "horse blanket". I am new to brett beers, so take my review with a grain of salt. I do get a musty cellar sort of smell, I do not recognize it so it must be from the Brett?
Taste: Starts out white wine like, then goes a little funky with a good mix of barrel and brett (I assume). The finish finally returns to more familiar "beer-like" territory at the end. The wine note is a touch sweet with fruit notes as the beer warms, but certainly not cloying. The grain note on the end is light with a cracker taste. Very complex. I do not want the bottle to end.
Mouthfeel: A lighter beer in the body with plentiful carbonation that is still smooth.
Overall: This is a very interesting take on beer and I am glad to have tried it. I certainly will not get it often with it being 12 a bottle, a little steep for my tastes. Very happy to have this available in the market. I hope they are careful with the yeast.
Nov 27, 2012Appearance: A nice effervescent crystal clear pale straw. Lots of nice bubbles streaming to the surface, almost looks like champagne. Leaves a sheet of lacing as I drink it down.
Smell: I get a lot of white wine notes that smell very dry and almost sharp. I do not get "horse blanket". I am new to brett beers, so take my review with a grain of salt. I do get a musty cellar sort of smell, I do not recognize it so it must be from the Brett?
Taste: Starts out white wine like, then goes a little funky with a good mix of barrel and brett (I assume). The finish finally returns to more familiar "beer-like" territory at the end. The wine note is a touch sweet with fruit notes as the beer warms, but certainly not cloying. The grain note on the end is light with a cracker taste. Very complex. I do not want the bottle to end.
Mouthfeel: A lighter beer in the body with plentiful carbonation that is still smooth.
Overall: This is a very interesting take on beer and I am glad to have tried it. I certainly will not get it often with it being 12 a bottle, a little steep for my tastes. Very happy to have this available in the market. I hope they are careful with the yeast.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by CaptainHate from Ohio
4.21/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
22 ounce Batch #9, 9.4%, brewed 11/23/2014, bottled 3/22/2016.
Found this in a bottle store and snagged it immediately. Poured into a tulip with a deep golden body capped with a small white head. Sour funk smell hits you immediately followed by a grape and grass pleasant aroma. Taste followed the smell with a nice wine tinge that I really like in a saison. I assume the wine taste comes from the barrels. Mouthfeel was very refreshing. Perfect farmhouse ale selection for an early summer night.
Too bad they don't make this anymore because this deserves to be tried by all fans of the style. The bottle place had one more left which I'll do my best to snag.
Jun 28, 2020Found this in a bottle store and snagged it immediately. Poured into a tulip with a deep golden body capped with a small white head. Sour funk smell hits you immediately followed by a grape and grass pleasant aroma. Taste followed the smell with a nice wine tinge that I really like in a saison. I assume the wine taste comes from the barrels. Mouthfeel was very refreshing. Perfect farmhouse ale selection for an early summer night.
Too bad they don't make this anymore because this deserves to be tried by all fans of the style. The bottle place had one more left which I'll do my best to snag.
Reviewed by jmich24 from Michigan
4.21/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
22 oz bottle
Batch 2
Aged 8 years
First half:
Crystal clear
Super bubbly
Nose is nice and complex, but an overwhelming smell of rotten grapes, sweaty feet and damp basement overwhelmed everything nice.
Taste follows nose
Drain poured it 3.25 overall
2nd half
Roused yeast and poured extra cloudy
Looks like a super opaque, rustic wheat.
Smell is again complex, over ripe fruit, pleasant funk this time.
Taste follows nose, really a great beer.
Overall 4.25
Tale of two half’s of beer. Truly an amazing experience.
Apr 11, 2020Batch 2
Aged 8 years
First half:
Crystal clear
Super bubbly
Nose is nice and complex, but an overwhelming smell of rotten grapes, sweaty feet and damp basement overwhelmed everything nice.
Taste follows nose
Drain poured it 3.25 overall
2nd half
Roused yeast and poured extra cloudy
Looks like a super opaque, rustic wheat.
Smell is again complex, over ripe fruit, pleasant funk this time.
Taste follows nose, really a great beer.
Overall 4.25
Tale of two half’s of beer. Truly an amazing experience.
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.91/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle at share, courtesy of Toby. Release # 1. Pale golden, light bubbly head. Pale golden, small foamy head. Light lemon, citrus aroma, white grapes. Small sour elements.
Jan 08, 2020Reviewed by hoptheology from California
4.45/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
22 oz bomber from Hinda65 poured into New Belgium glass. 10.1% ABV.
Hazy blonde and 1/2 finger of creamy head that dwindles to a thin ring.
Aroma of funky sour grapes and oak, with some Brett and hay.
Flavor is out of this world. First taste I got came back through my nostrils and burned them, not sure what that was about. But it starts with a wonderful mash-up of sour white grape, mango, heavy oak barrel and oak tannins, and funky yeast. It's wine-like, it's grape-like, but super oaky. It is sour, but it is the right kind of grape-y sour, with lots of barrel and oak and funk to balance it.
Feel is crisp and creamy and smooth with lots of tannins and acidity, and just the right amount of alcohol burn.
Overall, an outstanding beer worthy of seeking out. Definitely try to get this one.
Sep 10, 2019Hazy blonde and 1/2 finger of creamy head that dwindles to a thin ring.
Aroma of funky sour grapes and oak, with some Brett and hay.
Flavor is out of this world. First taste I got came back through my nostrils and burned them, not sure what that was about. But it starts with a wonderful mash-up of sour white grape, mango, heavy oak barrel and oak tannins, and funky yeast. It's wine-like, it's grape-like, but super oaky. It is sour, but it is the right kind of grape-y sour, with lots of barrel and oak and funk to balance it.
Feel is crisp and creamy and smooth with lots of tannins and acidity, and just the right amount of alcohol burn.
Overall, an outstanding beer worthy of seeking out. Definitely try to get this one.
Reviewed by iguanodon from Utah
4.05/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.05/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
[Original rating 2016-12-03] Bomber. Pours clear gold with almost no head. Aroma is sour funky farmhouse ale. Taste is sour, white wine, apple. Very good.
Oct 24, 2018Reviewed by DBosco from Massachusetts
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Release #9. 9.4% ABV. Clear golden with slight filmy head. Smell is sweet fruity - peach or grape. Taste is tart but sweet, rather vinous. Feel is is medium bodied, little carbonation. Overall, pretty good but somehow missing something. Seems almost more winelike than a beer.
Jan 23, 2018
Elder Brett from Epic Brewing Company
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
465 ratings
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