Barrica Kumquat
Masia Agullons - Cervesa Artesana

these guys make awesome beer, and its always a rare treat to find and drink some. in this case, i am only somewhat sure i am under the right listing specifically. the beer menu where i found it said kumquat, but nowhere on the bottle did it mention anything about it, except for a scribble with marker on the cap which anyone could have written. it was also in brown glass, not the green glass i see commonly when i look for images of this one online. however, it was marked 2013, so possibly they have changed packaging and such from vintage to vintage, but also possibly this is regular barrica 2013, if you have any info let me know! it pours a near still bronze color, clear and shiny but without anything else than a little patchy white bubbling around the edges of the glass. it smells like lambic, but also very vinous, super wild and mature, oaky, wine barrels for sure, no oxidation at all, lots of bright acidity and minerals and some cool rustic funk too, undeniably old world and mouth watering! the flavor is killer too, maybe a little more disjointed than the nose, but the lambic vibe remains, cleaner acidity though and the wine and oak tannins everywhere. subtle peach and stone fruit, elderflower bittering, and as far as i can tell no sign of kumquat, although i have to take it on faith from the menu that this is in fact that beer, it could be some of the piquancy, but any obvious citrus that is appreciable as separate from the bacterial tartness in here is gone. this is dry but there is a fruited sort of sweetness here before the barrel kicks in, interesting and layered beer. its thin to me, especially without the carbonation, possibly past its prime at this point, but a relic and something still well worth paying for and drinking at this stage. i hope to get some answers on this one, but we really dug it regardless of the kumquats or not, lambic-esque and impossibly mature and refined. these guys deserve more attention than they seem to ever get here in the states...