Koelorado Currant
Trinity Brewing Company

 

 

 

This beer is extraordinarily bad - and I actually love very acidic and weird beer. It's simply hard to drink and so acidic that one can hardly get it down. There is some underlying flavor but it's well hidden. It's hard to believe that a great brewery like Trinity released this.

Crazy beer, like nothing else, but definitely not my favorite, and in a lot of ways pretty close to undrinkable. Pretty color, deeply saturated bright red from the currants, thin though and with very little head after the initial pour. Super sharp aroma, a little sweetness and koolaid from the fruit, but this is acid run wild, just too much, gone, so harsh. I remember the original being very weird, but not so sour, this is past vinegar, not sure how anyone could have more than a few ounces. White wine notes, citric and lactic acids, heavy bacterial properties, a touch of overwhelmed sweetness from the fruit, concentrated lemons, paint thinner, chemical solvents, chrome polish. It's intense, and I guess I could see folks liking it, but for the purists and th Brewers out there, this has dry little appeal. Lots of love and respect for trinity, but what are they thinking here?! More of a novelty than an appealing beverage, I am in no hurry at all to have this wreck my palate again anytime soon...

 

Look and mouthfeel are irrelevant here. This beer was absolutely disgusting. I'm not the kind of person doesn't understand what spontaneously fermented means or have unreasonable expectation about what it could produce. It's a shot in the dark in many ways, but some environments are not conducive to producing a beer you would actually want to drink. This is an example of that. Either make the wort selective enough that you eliminate the unwanted microorganisms or dump the garbage that happens to result from leaving wort outside. Just putting wort in a koelschip and allowing spontaneous fermentation to happen doesn't mean you made something good. And that's fine, in fact it's par for the course, but don't serve it if you have any respect for yourself. You make some really nuanced and respectable beers, ones I really enjoy, but this wouldn't have even passed as vinegar.