Southern Symphony
Wild Heaven Beer
- From:
- Wild Heaven Beer
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 25.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2021
- Added:
- Nov 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with Cigar City Brewing.
Southern Symphony is a barrel-aged Brett beer. Three different base lager batches brewed with three different hop schedules and then aged in three kinds of barrels (wine, gin, and spirit) with the addition of two native Georgia grapes, scuppernongs and muscadines – one grape variety per barrel. Forty-five barrels, nearly every one unique. Oh, and the fruit additions were fermented with two different strains of brettanomyces. Hello, funky. A total of 38 of the 45 barrels made the final blend, with perhaps thirty of those barrels being a unique combination of inputs.
And that final blend? Imagine a rich, woody white wine with all the beautiful funkiness of a brett beer. It’s a one-of-a-kind. It will only be made this one time and we are grateful Cigar City Brewing and brewmaster Wayne Wambles for working with us to create such a tribute to creativity and innovation.
Southern Symphony is a barrel-aged Brett beer. Three different base lager batches brewed with three different hop schedules and then aged in three kinds of barrels (wine, gin, and spirit) with the addition of two native Georgia grapes, scuppernongs and muscadines – one grape variety per barrel. Forty-five barrels, nearly every one unique. Oh, and the fruit additions were fermented with two different strains of brettanomyces. Hello, funky. A total of 38 of the 45 barrels made the final blend, with perhaps thirty of those barrels being a unique combination of inputs.
And that final blend? Imagine a rich, woody white wine with all the beautiful funkiness of a brett beer. It’s a one-of-a-kind. It will only be made this one time and we are grateful Cigar City Brewing and brewmaster Wayne Wambles for working with us to create such a tribute to creativity and innovation.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ThickNStout from Georgia
4.33/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.33/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
500mL bottle from Sprayberry Bottle Shop (Marietta, GA). 13.99. Released summer 2018. Served in a Wild Heaven snifter. Enjoyed 11/6/18.
Pours an attractive golden amber with a short, quickly dissipating cap of loose, near-white froth.
Aromas of grapes, white wine, Brett, stone fruit and some vague whiskey. Deep, funky and fruity.
The Brett is huge and right up front in the flavor. Fruit skins, farmy funk, wine soaked wood, macerated grapes, peach, some slight citrus, a little pineapple, toast, flower petals, mild earth and
Medium body with fairly flat carbonation. The finish is full of Brett, oak and funky grapes.
2 years in the making, Wild Heaven and Cigar City have created something truly unique. Southern Symphony is exactly that- a harmonious blend of Brett, wine and barrel. Don’t be fooled by the over-simplified description on the bottle. 3 base lagers with 3 different hop schedules, 3 different barrels (wine, gin & spirit), 2 different Georgia grapes (scuppernongs & muscadines) & 2 strains of Brettanomyces came together to make this one-of-a-kind, one-off brew. And I’m glad I got to try it.
Nov 07, 2018Pours an attractive golden amber with a short, quickly dissipating cap of loose, near-white froth.
Aromas of grapes, white wine, Brett, stone fruit and some vague whiskey. Deep, funky and fruity.
The Brett is huge and right up front in the flavor. Fruit skins, farmy funk, wine soaked wood, macerated grapes, peach, some slight citrus, a little pineapple, toast, flower petals, mild earth and
Medium body with fairly flat carbonation. The finish is full of Brett, oak and funky grapes.
2 years in the making, Wild Heaven and Cigar City have created something truly unique. Southern Symphony is exactly that- a harmonious blend of Brett, wine and barrel. Don’t be fooled by the over-simplified description on the bottle. 3 base lagers with 3 different hop schedules, 3 different barrels (wine, gin & spirit), 2 different Georgia grapes (scuppernongs & muscadines) & 2 strains of Brettanomyces came together to make this one-of-a-kind, one-off brew. And I’m glad I got to try it.
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