Sour Mashed Sweet Potato
Fullsteam Brewery
- From:
- Fullsteam Brewery
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 07, 2011
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Sour mashed, not a wild or sour beer.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Verecund from Texas
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Enjoyed on tap at Fullsteam 01.06.2011.
Pours an abundantly hazy apricot yellow-orange. The contact lens head sticks, but there's little lacing.
Pleasant nose of straw, some orange, and fresh citrus/citric acid. It's clean, with very little suggestion of sweet potato. Palate begins much the same - some lactic tanginess, citrus, and graininess - but ends oddly, with notes of sweet potato and earthy bitterness. (On second taste, the bitterness here is earthy, but it also resembles orange pith.) Something doesn't work for me - the light bitterness and vegetal notes clash with the otherwise balanced flavor profile, and there's even a suggestion of something resembling vomit, which shows in some sours. I'm not sure if it's some unwanted bacteria or (more likely) just the clash of lacto with the sweet potato mash.
Just under medium-bodied, with a somewhat effervescent mouthfeel. Medium to high drinkability.
Technically, I like this beer: above average nose, lactic milky acidity, citric acidity. But the weird vegetal (expected) and enteric (not expected) notes clash horribly with the parts of the beer I like.
Looking forward to future, fruit-based sours from Fullsteam! Try this if you get the chance.
Jan 07, 2011Pours an abundantly hazy apricot yellow-orange. The contact lens head sticks, but there's little lacing.
Pleasant nose of straw, some orange, and fresh citrus/citric acid. It's clean, with very little suggestion of sweet potato. Palate begins much the same - some lactic tanginess, citrus, and graininess - but ends oddly, with notes of sweet potato and earthy bitterness. (On second taste, the bitterness here is earthy, but it also resembles orange pith.) Something doesn't work for me - the light bitterness and vegetal notes clash with the otherwise balanced flavor profile, and there's even a suggestion of something resembling vomit, which shows in some sours. I'm not sure if it's some unwanted bacteria or (more likely) just the clash of lacto with the sweet potato mash.
Just under medium-bodied, with a somewhat effervescent mouthfeel. Medium to high drinkability.
Technically, I like this beer: above average nose, lactic milky acidity, citric acidity. But the weird vegetal (expected) and enteric (not expected) notes clash horribly with the parts of the beer I like.
Looking forward to future, fruit-based sours from Fullsteam! Try this if you get the chance.
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