T-Funk
Full Pint Brewing Company

Welcome back to my Hoppy New Full Pint Sunday (Week 704)! This serves to dual purpose of creating this week's theme as well as continuing the eradication of The Bottle Backlog at Chez Woody. The latter is actually a finite proposition as I am buying fewer & fewer bottles anyway.

From the Bottle: "Beer Nerd Stats: OG: 9.0// 4.5$ ABV // < 1 IBU Malts: Acidulated Barley, Torrified Wheat, Special Aromatic Hops: Cascade Tea: Orange Peko, Black Tea Funk: Lactobacillus Delbrueckii Fruit: Blackberry".

Being that it was a wheat-based beer, some haziness/cloudiness was not out of the question, so I did some pre-Pop of the cap, in-bottle agitation to ensure that all was in readiness. I Pop!ped the cap & began a C-line pour, but I gotta tell ya, the idea of Torrified Wheat terrified me! It rushed up to form a brief fizzy, foamy finger of pinkish head that quickly dissipated to wisps. 8=( Color was a deeply cloudy Pinkish-Purplish-Red (SRM = N/A). What a gorgeous shade! Nose was funky, fruity, sour & I was reaching for my GIRD pill. Phew! Fruit generally gives alcohol a tartness, but this was going to be challenging for me. Mouthfeel was kind of thin, not exactly watery, but not much beyond it, either. The taste was very tart & puckering, NOT sour, with a pronounced berry flavor that I would have misidentified as raspberry if I didn't know better. I did not really register the tea at first in the mélange of flavors inherent in this beer, but as it warmed, it began to take on a mellow tea-like character. Orange Pekoe Black is fairly common & we used to buy tins of it in bags for Chun King Chow Mein & Chop Suey nights as supper at home when I was a kid. The other thing that happened as it warmed is that it got funkier & more tart! Now, I could really taste the fruit. Mmm. I will readily cop to not being a Tart/Sour aficionado, and Goses are more my speed, but this was a pleasant diversion from all of the AIPAs of late. Finish was dry, tart & fruity, just like the style calls for.

 

Interesting sounding beer a sour style with some tea leaves is something different.
A - Good pink ruby color looks like a good level of blackberry. 1/2 inch of frothy head.
S - Typical lemony sourness of the style with slight wheat and fruit.
T - Actually quite good the berry tart mixes well with the style and the tea leaves seem to balance a bit of the tartness with some earthy bitterness. I love it!
M - Very light and refreshing easy to drink!

Overall a beer done right not sure if it has much tea flavor but the beer is delicious regardless!

 

 

 

 

Dark hazy wheat looking dark blond-ish. Darker than usual berlinerweiss beer. Not much if any head. Slight gray lacing. Smells light tartness and a bit malty, but not sweet. Some fruit character from the blackberry. Tea is present in the nose but very subdued. Taste is layered yet not too complex. Blackberry tartness and tea acidity up front. Followed by some earthy herbal taste from the tea (maybe hops too?), the typical berliner sourness comes through clear and present, but not face cringingly, followed by a faint fruit sweetness of blackberry. Mouthfeel starts flat-ish, mid pallet the bubbles start tingling the tongue pretty agressively, then fades smooth. None of that weird seafoam sudsy cat saliva after-spit effect, that sometimes comes about when drinking a kettle-soured lactic beer. The body is nice and present with a 4.8%abv; enough to leave it fullbodied and void of that thin whispy bubbled horsepiss feel that other BWs carry. Very pleased overall. Would love to see this on regular rotation.