Fortuna Roja
Freetail Brewing Company
- From:
- Freetail Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- 94
- Avg:
- 4.26 | pDev: 9.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 25
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 29, 2018
- Added:
- Feb 06, 2011
- Wants:
- 150
- Gots:
- 8
SCORE
94
Outstanding
94
Outstanding
Batch 1 (2011) - 200 Bottles
Batch 2 (2012) - 120 Bottles
Batch 2 (2012) - 120 Bottles
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Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania
4.09/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This review is based off the original 2011 bottling that ive cellared for 7 years prior to sharing with friends.
It appears a polished clear golden yellow with a white head.
It smells fruity almist vinous with cheese and something like cucumber.
The taste is vinous, cider-like and lemony tart with oak and an overall sweet tart feel in the aftertaste.
This is medium in body with light carbonation. A tangy, enjoyable brew that is not showing its age at all. This went over really well with the people I shared it with.
Mar 29, 2018It appears a polished clear golden yellow with a white head.
It smells fruity almist vinous with cheese and something like cucumber.
The taste is vinous, cider-like and lemony tart with oak and an overall sweet tart feel in the aftertaste.
This is medium in body with light carbonation. A tangy, enjoyable brew that is not showing its age at all. This went over really well with the people I shared it with.
Reviewed by BarrytheBear from Wisconsin
3.68/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
2012
Fairly still orange pour with a faint funk on the nose coupled with watermelon juice. Not sure if time tempered this or it's just this light and faint.
LOTS of prickly pear, fruity at the start that moves into tart pucker and a sour fade that lingers. Funk is light here as well and the profile is prickly pear dominant.
Interesting flavor here but it becomes a bit overbearing at times as not much helps to ease the prickly assault. Fun try and a beer that was a huge top want a few years back.
May 31, 2015Fairly still orange pour with a faint funk on the nose coupled with watermelon juice. Not sure if time tempered this or it's just this light and faint.
LOTS of prickly pear, fruity at the start that moves into tart pucker and a sour fade that lingers. Funk is light here as well and the profile is prickly pear dominant.
Interesting flavor here but it becomes a bit overbearing at times as not much helps to ease the prickly assault. Fun try and a beer that was a huge top want a few years back.
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
4.45/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Huge thanks t to rudzud for this one, one I figured I'd never try. 2011 vintage.
No real head, honey orange hazy color, very slight blush colored hue.
Nose great, nice tart funk, little fruity sourness, generic fruity but not really specific, mild lambic aroma into Brett in the background, watermelon candy, little melon like,
Taste brings lots of tart but juicy fruit, fair sourness with a prickly pear like, into big watermelon and generic melon balls. Nice tart generic fruit lambic, with little acidic bite, almost like a citric acid, into a mild sour Brett like funk. Touch of musty acetic acid, and funk, vinous note. Finish is a little dry and sticky flemmy, bit acidic, more lambic and tart fruit.
Mouth is lighter bod, decent bit lighter carb, nice acidic bite.
Overall delicious, not the most phenomenal beer or sour but very good.
May 21, 2014No real head, honey orange hazy color, very slight blush colored hue.
Nose great, nice tart funk, little fruity sourness, generic fruity but not really specific, mild lambic aroma into Brett in the background, watermelon candy, little melon like,
Taste brings lots of tart but juicy fruit, fair sourness with a prickly pear like, into big watermelon and generic melon balls. Nice tart generic fruit lambic, with little acidic bite, almost like a citric acid, into a mild sour Brett like funk. Touch of musty acetic acid, and funk, vinous note. Finish is a little dry and sticky flemmy, bit acidic, more lambic and tart fruit.
Mouth is lighter bod, decent bit lighter carb, nice acidic bite.
Overall delicious, not the most phenomenal beer or sour but very good.
Reviewed by rudzud from Massachusetts
4.52/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.52/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Received in one of my first trades ever, shared with JLindros and Threelions. 2011 vintage, review number 1700.
A - Poured into a Kate the Great tulip a clear blush hue with no head but loads of effervescent.
S - Aromas of light funk, tart fruit, sour candies, prickly pear fruit, brett, tart almost powder smarties. Really really pleasant.
T - Taste is very tart, almost juicy prickly pear, light funk, floral, flower petals, watermelon jolly ranchers, sweet candy. Refreshing. Loads of prickly pear.
M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, crisp.
O - Overall this beer was tasty, everything I hoped it would be. Loads of prickly pear, nice funk, really tasty.
May 16, 2014A - Poured into a Kate the Great tulip a clear blush hue with no head but loads of effervescent.
S - Aromas of light funk, tart fruit, sour candies, prickly pear fruit, brett, tart almost powder smarties. Really really pleasant.
T - Taste is very tart, almost juicy prickly pear, light funk, floral, flower petals, watermelon jolly ranchers, sweet candy. Refreshing. Loads of prickly pear.
M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, crisp.
O - Overall this beer was tasty, everything I hoped it would be. Loads of prickly pear, nice funk, really tasty.
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