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Amicis Mortis
Jester King Brewery
- From:
- Jester King Brewery
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Saison
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 11.33%
- Reviews:
- 17
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 16, 2020
- Added:
- Aug 20, 2015
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 16
We’re pleased to introduce Amicis Mortis — a farmhouse ale brewed with sweet potatoes, chili peppers, and coconut in collaboration with Brasserie Dunham in Dunham, Quebec. We first tasted beer from Brasserie Dunham at Shelton Bros. The Festival in Los Angeles, California in the fall of 2014 and were completely and utterly impressed. The integration of yeast character, acidity, dryness, bitterness, and effervescence in their farmhouse ales was staggeringly good, and they’re wonderful people to boot. We instantly knew we wanted to work with them.
Amicis Mortis was brewed with Hill Country well water, malted barley, raw wheat, hops, sweet potatoes, and chili peppers. Sweet potatoes were added to the mash, and a small dose of chili peppers were added late in the boil. It was fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture of microorganisms consisting of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria harvested from the air and wildflowers around our brewery. A couple of weeks into fermentation we added coconut and more chili peppers to the beer. Amicis Mortis was packaged on May 20th, 2015 and refermented in bottles, kegs, and casks. It is 4.2% alcohol by volume, has a finishing gravity of 0.999 (zero degrees Plato), and is 32 IBU.
Amicis Mortis was brewed with Hill Country well water, malted barley, raw wheat, hops, sweet potatoes, and chili peppers. Sweet potatoes were added to the mash, and a small dose of chili peppers were added late in the boil. It was fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture of microorganisms consisting of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria harvested from the air and wildflowers around our brewery. A couple of weeks into fermentation we added coconut and more chili peppers to the beer. Amicis Mortis was packaged on May 20th, 2015 and refermented in bottles, kegs, and casks. It is 4.2% alcohol by volume, has a finishing gravity of 0.999 (zero degrees Plato), and is 32 IBU.
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Ratings by csfcmitchell:
Rated by csfcmitchell from Texas
3.75/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Apr 22, 2016
3.75/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Apr 22, 2016
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden
3.99/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottle pour at Row 34 in Boston. Big thanks to Suzie!
Pours a clear yellow with a fizzy head.
Smell is very earthy, sort of like the forest floor in the fall. A bit of white wine also is hinted at.
Taste is quite simple, but very clean, very crisp. There are slight hints of chilis and coconut, but mainly a very drinkable farmhouse beer.
Light bodied, but there is sort of an oily feel to it, which may be the sweet potatoes?
Very nice and interestning beer to try, also my first Texas beer. Once again, big thank you to Suzie at Row 34 for this one!
Mar 14, 2017Pours a clear yellow with a fizzy head.
Smell is very earthy, sort of like the forest floor in the fall. A bit of white wine also is hinted at.
Taste is quite simple, but very clean, very crisp. There are slight hints of chilis and coconut, but mainly a very drinkable farmhouse beer.
Light bodied, but there is sort of an oily feel to it, which may be the sweet potatoes?
Very nice and interestning beer to try, also my first Texas beer. Once again, big thank you to Suzie at Row 34 for this one!
Reviewed by JordonHoltzman from New York
3.99/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured into a tulip. Dry crisp saison. I do not get any of the sweet potato, coconut or pepper. However, it's still delicious. The Brett bread notes, farmhouse yeast, make for a great beer that is a table beer. Not sure if that was the intent; this is a year old. Maybe if fresh, the ingredients would have more of a presence.
Oct 22, 2016Rated by Rimbimhoot from Illinois
3.67/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Earthy, watery, light chili pepper, kind of bland
May 17, 2016
Amicis Mortis from Jester King Brewery
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
85 ratings
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