Sour First Frost
Fullsteam Brewery
- From:
- Fullsteam Brewery
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 8.8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 4.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 31, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 19, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Verecund from Texas
4.13/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.13/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Description: "One-year-old First Frost aged on persimmons and a cocktail of wild yeast, back-blended with this year's First Frost." Eight gallon batch.
Enjoyed on tap at the Fullsteam tavern on 02.18.2011.
Pours a deep burgundy, with a ring of white bubbles three (bubbles) deep lining the edge of the glass.
Immediately intensely fruity: red currants; sharp apple. As it sits (or perhaps, after tasting it), the nose calms down and I pick up sweeter notes of prunus fruit [apricot] assumedly from the persimmons in the newer batch of FF. Lots of acetic acid and fruity vinegar.
A tiny bit of butyric acid greets the tongue ("rancid" fruitiness), red wine vinegar, some softer berry notes. Lots of nice tart acidity. Some madeira sweetness on mid-palate, followed by a pungent tart and almost spicy end note likely from the fresher winter warmer. Nicely balanced, this works better than I thought it would and the fruit is really showcased more than in the regular beer.
Medium-bodied and attenuated on the higher side, though there's some sweetness from the younger beer.
A nice showing, I wish there were more of this to go around. By and large my favorite Fullsteam beer to date. About the only thing I can say is that this might benefit from some oak-aging, but it drinks mighty fine the way it is. Even the lady friend, who normally can only drink a few ounces of sours, enjoyed a glass to herself.
Feb 19, 2011Enjoyed on tap at the Fullsteam tavern on 02.18.2011.
Pours a deep burgundy, with a ring of white bubbles three (bubbles) deep lining the edge of the glass.
Immediately intensely fruity: red currants; sharp apple. As it sits (or perhaps, after tasting it), the nose calms down and I pick up sweeter notes of prunus fruit [apricot] assumedly from the persimmons in the newer batch of FF. Lots of acetic acid and fruity vinegar.
A tiny bit of butyric acid greets the tongue ("rancid" fruitiness), red wine vinegar, some softer berry notes. Lots of nice tart acidity. Some madeira sweetness on mid-palate, followed by a pungent tart and almost spicy end note likely from the fresher winter warmer. Nicely balanced, this works better than I thought it would and the fruit is really showcased more than in the regular beer.
Medium-bodied and attenuated on the higher side, though there's some sweetness from the younger beer.
A nice showing, I wish there were more of this to go around. By and large my favorite Fullsteam beer to date. About the only thing I can say is that this might benefit from some oak-aging, but it drinks mighty fine the way it is. Even the lady friend, who normally can only drink a few ounces of sours, enjoyed a glass to herself.
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