Synthesis Analogous
Jester King Brewery

Had this very tasty beer at the brewery. It was poured from tap into a large snifter.

Beautiful reddish garnet-pint color (hard to describe). Brief effervescent head and little lacing but this did not distract from the beer.

Smell and taste of ripe tart berries. Flavors of cinnamon candy and tart cherries. This beer is rounded out with a very pleasant floral mellowness that makes this beer very enjoyable.

Briliant red body with a pink tinted white cap that settles into a ring. Nose is potent jammy berries in a wild way with dark oak and flowers supporting. Taste bring the whiskey infusing the raspberry and blackberry, with rustic oak and barrel funk supporting. Feel is slightly darker and certainly more boozy, but nowhere near hot, feel is tart at most, limited acidity. Wonderful beer for the opening of true spring

1858
Name: Synthesis Analogous
Brewery: Jester King
Location: Austin, TX
Style: Wild Ale
ABV 7.9
Date: 08/2022
I visited Texas, and Jester King was on the must-do list. I drank a lot of wild ales; most of what I drank resides in my cellar. I purchased this beer at the brewery and brought it back home. I am using a tulip glass; the pour created a foamy one-fingered head with no retention. The retention does not bother me because of the style. The color is a light reddish color with a pinkish hue. There is lots of carbonation and bright clarity. The appearance is beautiful.
Nosing the glass, I smell berries, sourness, a hint of the farmyard, a touch of fruity sweetness, oak, hints of whiskey, and light floral esters.
Tasting the beer berries, hints of farmyard funk, a touch of fruity sweetness, oak, a hint of whiskey, light floral esters,
The mouthfeel is dry and puckering, The body is light, and the carbonation is high, with a pleasant finish.
This is a wonderful beer experience. The berries are not on the front of the palate yet, it harmoniously lingers with the rest of the beer. It has the perfect amount of sweetness, tartness, and finish. I loved this beer.

 

 

 

2020 edition. Very tart. Draft at Torst.

 

 

 

Would I buy this again? Definitely. This Jester King offering is way to rare to not have it if you can get it.

That said, both fruits (raspberry & blackberry) are very subtle throughout. The sherry barrels are more noticeable on the nose then the fruit.

Fruit is present in the taste & smell, but not overly noticeable - which is reasonable considering both fruits were on their second refermentation for this beer.

As a huge Jester King fanboy (they are my favorite brewery - by a mile) this beer would fall as a low-end "Top 10 JK beers" for me (#9 or 10).

Score based on blend #2 from June 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

Hazy without any sediment, the color is consistently dark salmon from top to bottom, with a fizzy off-white head that settles to nothing but a thin ring.

Smell is seedy blackberry and raspberry with softening peach and cranberry that are all nearly overtaken by an intensely complex oak presence that is like heavily roasted pecan, almost maple-esque. At the very back end is a hint of stinky cheese.

Synthesis is surprisingly juicy and jammy for a Jester King beer--I don't normally get that characteristic from them--but also sharply tart and deeply black peppery. This intense oak flavor is a very complex and completely appreciated contribution from the Sherry, which is still coming across as roasted pecan to me. Gummy apricot and notes of caramel corn-esque pie crust arise as it warms. The specific notes of raspberry and blackberry don't actually come through distinctly in flavor, but this is unbelievably drinkable for a fruited Jester King sour.

Feel is crisply carbonated, nicely tart sour, with a slick swallow but just barely semi-dry finish.

Batch #2 June 2017 vintage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

750ml bottle. Served in a snifter glass.

Pours a lightly hazy, light reddish-pink with a one finger white head, nice lacing. Fair retention. As you'd expect, this is a pretty beer. Smell is a rich raspberry sweetness with a tarter blackberry-like tartness, light hay, dark fruit, mild lactic acidity, some minerality to it. There is a ton of fruit here, and the aroma is akin to Atrial Rubicite, but a bit more complex. Really a nice fruit-forward nose. Flavour pulls back a little bit on the fruit, in favour of a more dry saison-like vinous, earthy and grainy wheat-like character. Raspberry jam sweetness is perfectly complementary here, but there is a big, big acetic bite on the backend that isn't so much tart as it is sour. Somewhat unexpected, given that Jester King loves their 1.000 final gravity designations, but very welcome. I'm guessing the sherry barrel is mingling in with what I am perceiving to be the fruit flavour. The blackberry isn't really anywhere to be found, perhaps the tart character is from the blackberry. Mouthfeel is lighter bodied, refreshingly sour on the finish with a rolling fruit flavour that lingers. A really nice treat from Jester King, and a damn nice fruited wild ale to drink on a summer evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Jester King beer out there IMO.

L: Beautiful pink to red to purple hue with a soft pink/white head. Looks like raspberry jam.

S: This is incredibly complex. Jammy raspberry and blackberry, lambic like funk, dry sherry, tons of oak. Just perfect.

T: It really holds up to the nose, and probably even better. Jammy berries that are balanced with the sherry, funk and oak. So complex and incredible.

F: Light and subtly effervescent with a great dryness on the end, not sweet at all.

O: I don't think there's a better JK beer out there. The complexity of this is incredible and reminds me so much of lambic. The sherry barrel in unique and very awesome and is goes perfectly with the fruit. Better than Sherry Atrial.