Save The Bee
Oakshire Brewing
- From:
- Oakshire Brewing
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 7.67%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 19, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 21, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by MaltsOfGlory from Oregon
3.67/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
22 oz bottle
A somewhat aggressive pour yields almost a finger of head into my pint glass. Head is white, and most of it quickly fizzes away. Body is a hazy yellow, with hints of orange. Visibility is very low, but I can somewhat see the carbonation, and it looks medium. A little film is left on top of the body, so we'll see how the lacing goes. So far, not a bad looking beer, typical look for the style.
The nose has a dash of honey, followed by that tart, dry Farmhouse smell. Some of these Farmhouse beers seem more like Gose's than like Saisons to me, I almost get lemon and even salt here. I suppose the bottle does indeed list this as being a "tart" farmhouse, but it's almost borderline sour on the nose. Not getting much of the dry hopping that was apparently done. Not really any clove here either. Overall it's a nice smell, and while it is intended to be tart, it smells more like a Gose. Anyways, nice smelling beer. I want to give this guy a 4 on the nose, because on deeper sniffs the honey does a good job of balancing this out. But it's just too faint overall and requires too much effort to smell, so 3.75.
Yeah, the flavor definitely hits on the main smells I pick up. Tart, a little salty, with possibly some lemon, definitely acidic overall. Frankly the nose was a little better because you could at least pick up that honey on some sniffs, it's really not here on the flavor. It's a nice crushable beer, but it could offer a lot more complexity. I understand it's tart, and that is a dominating flavor, but it's still a farmhouse, there should be more going on here. Hell, it even says there are "fruity esters" and "clove" neither of which I really get, other than a little lemon. It's a nice beer, and if the style was different, or if the label didn't boast all these flavors, I might like it a little bit more. But when I'm expecting something, I kinda want it. Good beer, not amazing.
Mouthfeel is puckering, dry, with a relatively low carbonation. Body is pretty thin. The mouthfeel overall seems to adhere more to that of a beer that wants to be a sour (which this basically is) rather than one that wants to be a farmhouse. Again, I'd prefer something different than this, comes off a little watery frankly.
The drinkability is very high. It's a nice tasting beer, with a light ABV.
Overall this is a nice beer, but I just want so much more out of the style, and the ingredients. Hard to knock a beer too much for those things, which is why it will still get a good grade, but it definitely hurts it. I guess I'll just consider this a sour, and say, not a bad sour.
The appearance turned out surprisingly bad. The film completely disappeared, and I got zero lacing. Kinda hard to grade this one, because it started out pretty nice looking, but man did it die towards the end.
Nov 29, 2016A somewhat aggressive pour yields almost a finger of head into my pint glass. Head is white, and most of it quickly fizzes away. Body is a hazy yellow, with hints of orange. Visibility is very low, but I can somewhat see the carbonation, and it looks medium. A little film is left on top of the body, so we'll see how the lacing goes. So far, not a bad looking beer, typical look for the style.
The nose has a dash of honey, followed by that tart, dry Farmhouse smell. Some of these Farmhouse beers seem more like Gose's than like Saisons to me, I almost get lemon and even salt here. I suppose the bottle does indeed list this as being a "tart" farmhouse, but it's almost borderline sour on the nose. Not getting much of the dry hopping that was apparently done. Not really any clove here either. Overall it's a nice smell, and while it is intended to be tart, it smells more like a Gose. Anyways, nice smelling beer. I want to give this guy a 4 on the nose, because on deeper sniffs the honey does a good job of balancing this out. But it's just too faint overall and requires too much effort to smell, so 3.75.
Yeah, the flavor definitely hits on the main smells I pick up. Tart, a little salty, with possibly some lemon, definitely acidic overall. Frankly the nose was a little better because you could at least pick up that honey on some sniffs, it's really not here on the flavor. It's a nice crushable beer, but it could offer a lot more complexity. I understand it's tart, and that is a dominating flavor, but it's still a farmhouse, there should be more going on here. Hell, it even says there are "fruity esters" and "clove" neither of which I really get, other than a little lemon. It's a nice beer, and if the style was different, or if the label didn't boast all these flavors, I might like it a little bit more. But when I'm expecting something, I kinda want it. Good beer, not amazing.
Mouthfeel is puckering, dry, with a relatively low carbonation. Body is pretty thin. The mouthfeel overall seems to adhere more to that of a beer that wants to be a sour (which this basically is) rather than one that wants to be a farmhouse. Again, I'd prefer something different than this, comes off a little watery frankly.
The drinkability is very high. It's a nice tasting beer, with a light ABV.
Overall this is a nice beer, but I just want so much more out of the style, and the ingredients. Hard to knock a beer too much for those things, which is why it will still get a good grade, but it definitely hurts it. I guess I'll just consider this a sour, and say, not a bad sour.
The appearance turned out surprisingly bad. The film completely disappeared, and I got zero lacing. Kinda hard to grade this one, because it started out pretty nice looking, but man did it die towards the end.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.39/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
this is amazing beer, especially for the price, one of the best i have ever had from oakshire to be honest, surprised it hasnt been added and talked up on here yet. its a dry hopped tart farmhouse ale with a lot of local honey and a mandarina bavaria dry hopping, its sensational. super light in color, pale hazy straw colored with a nice nearly full inch of white head. it smells and tastes like honey before wild yeast, sweet and waxy, floral and pollen laden, bright and summery, its about as true an expression of raw honey as i have seen in a beer, there is a great mix of wild yeasts in here too, a hint of bacterial sourness, but more funk than anything else, nice rustic farmy brett, and with the juicy hops, its pretty incredible. all the elements seem to exist to serve the honey profile though, and they do it nicely. its super light, although the texture of the honey can still be appreciated. this is some kind of fundraiser or charity work or something to help the bee population, which is also awesome. a really impressive beer overall, amazing honey flavor, juicy tangy hoppy, funked like crazy, and outrageously affordable at less than 5 bucks a bomber. do yourself a favor and find one of these while its still high summer, this is one of my favorite beers of the summer so far!
Jul 21, 2016
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