Bière De Syrah
Jester King Brewery

Bière De SyrahBière De Syrah
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From:
Jester King Brewery
 
Texas, United States
Style:
Wild Ale
Ranked #26
ABV:
7.3%
Score:
97
Ranked #403
Avg:
4.45 | pDev: 5.84%
Reviews:
27
Ratings:
166
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 10, 2022
Added:
Jul 30, 2015
Wants:
  79
Gots:
  47
A barrel-aged sour beer refermented with Syrah grapes. Bière de Syrah consists of a blend of beer fermented in oak barrels for nine to twelve months with our mixed culture of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria harvested from the air and wildflowers around our brewery. The blend was then refermented with Syrah grapes for about two weeks, transferred off of the fruit, then aged for an additional nine months in oak barrels. After packaging, the beer naturally conditioned for an additional two months prior to release. Altogether, Bière de Syrah is roughly two years old.

Bière de Syrah was brewed with Hill Country well water, barley, wheat, oats, and hops. It was fermented with our mixed culture of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria harvested from the Texas Hill Country prior to refermentation with Syrah grapes. It is unfiltered, unpasteurized, and 100% naturally conditioned in bottles, kegs, and casks. Bière de Syrah is 7.3% alcohol by volume, 9 IBU, 3.2 pH at the time of packaging in June 2015, and has a finishing gravity of 1.001 (0.25 degrees Plato).
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Rated: 4.5 by ear-bending from Texas

Dec 10, 2022
 
Rated: 4.25 by Dactrius from Netherlands Antilles

Jun 22, 2021
 
Rated: 4.75 by RiceOwls27 from Texas

Mar 26, 2020
 
Rated: 4.52 by ScottP from New Hampshire

Dec 25, 2019
 
Rated: 4.5 by Ben1313 from New Hampshire

Nov 23, 2019
 
Rated: 4.25 by Dizzy242 from Massachusetts

Oct 21, 2019
 
Rated: 4.27 by Duncian from Pennsylvania

Aug 14, 2019
 
Rated: 4.44 by rcjennings from Ohio

Aug 12, 2019
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.22/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Foggy garnet with an instantly fizzling out white pink head.

Vinous, grapey and wine-forward, a mild tannin accompanies a punchy oaky sourness in the effervescent medium-light body that finishes tingly semi-dry. Light pepperiness comes with a hint of char, but overall it's a clean expression of red wine grape with an appropriate sourness and minimal funk.

Blend One 2015
May 25, 2019
 
Rated: 4.28 by MephistosCafe from North Carolina

Jan 11, 2019
 
Rated: 4.41 by _JLPK_ from North Carolina

Nov 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.93 by 22Blue from Kansas

Aug 20, 2018
 
Rated: 4.39 by cp45 from New Jersey

Jul 22, 2018
 
Rated: 4.31 by SadMachine from New Jersey

Jul 03, 2018
 
Rated: 4.29 by hcproff36 from Texas

Jul 02, 2018
 
Rated: 4.34 by Sirnickatnite from Texas

Jun 14, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by oline73 from Maryland

May 07, 2018
 
Rated: 4.65 by stewartea from Texas

May 02, 2018
 
Rated: 4.49 by wordemupg from Canada (AB)

Apr 28, 2018
 
Rated: 4.27 by Beerbom from California

Apr 06, 2018