Petite Sour - Blueberry | Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
Brewed by:
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
Colorado, United States
crookedstave.com
Style: American Wild Ale
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.50%
Availability: Rotating
Notes / Commercial Description:
Wild ale aged in oak barrels with blueberries
Added by Rifugium on 06-28-2014
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Ratings: 442 | Reviews: 62
3.91/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Drinkable. Blueberry definitely comes through. No oak. $8 for this is a con however.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Drinkable. Blueberry definitely comes through. No oak. $8 for this is a con however.
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4.12/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a reddish violet, with plenty of carbonation and slight bubbles on the surface. Taste is tart and sour blueberry, slightly acidic, slight oak, some sour wheat, but mostly big berry sour notes. Not a lot of depth, but well made. Is a sipper with the cumulative sour and acidic flavors.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a reddish violet, with plenty of carbonation and slight bubbles on the surface. Taste is tart and sour blueberry, slightly acidic, slight oak, some sour wheat, but mostly big berry sour notes. Not a lot of depth, but well made. Is a sipper with the cumulative sour and acidic flavors.
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3.96/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
July 8th, 2015 - With the core sours out of the way, our tasting session moves on to the Sour Blueberry. Here I am still skeptical, even though the last couple of Crooked Stave brews have been revelations. The color is a beautiful pomegranate red, with a slight bubble gum pinkness, and the smell is sweet and full of blackberry, bubble gum and pomegranate juice. It smells as it looks in synchronicity. The front of the flavor is tangy, and the pomegranate appears again, but the flavor shift dramatically, adding some blueberry darkness and depth. This note drifts for a long time, until cooly settling into a delicious and long, quiet aftertaste of fruit.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
July 8th, 2015 - With the core sours out of the way, our tasting session moves on to the Sour Blueberry. Here I am still skeptical, even though the last couple of Crooked Stave brews have been revelations. The color is a beautiful pomegranate red, with a slight bubble gum pinkness, and the smell is sweet and full of blackberry, bubble gum and pomegranate juice. It smells as it looks in synchronicity. The front of the flavor is tangy, and the pomegranate appears again, but the flavor shift dramatically, adding some blueberry darkness and depth. This note drifts for a long time, until cooly settling into a delicious and long, quiet aftertaste of fruit.
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3.98/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.25/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
One of the 14 beers we have had in one session of some bad-ass tasting brew.
Very refreshing with a nice blueberry presence. Lactic but not really sour. Nice
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
One of the 14 beers we have had in one session of some bad-ass tasting brew.
Very refreshing with a nice blueberry presence. Lactic but not really sour. Nice
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3.71/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
The beer pours out a dark pink/light purple color, with a thin light pink head--------- the aromas are of tartness, wheat, Apple skins, and berries---------- the flavors are sour up front with oak, light sweetness and berries, the beer has a thin mouthfeel with a dry light finish----------- overall for the abv this was a tasty sour, I do prefer my sours more full bodied and overly sour, this was more on the tart side--
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
The beer pours out a dark pink/light purple color, with a thin light pink head--------- the aromas are of tartness, wheat, Apple skins, and berries---------- the flavors are sour up front with oak, light sweetness and berries, the beer has a thin mouthfeel with a dry light finish----------- overall for the abv this was a tasty sour, I do prefer my sours more full bodied and overly sour, this was more on the tart side--
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4.3/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap. Poured a clear, golden amber color with a small, white head of foam. It smelled of blueberries, oak and tart fruits. Tart up front with oakiness from the barrel. Sour but not overpowering.
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look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap. Poured a clear, golden amber color with a small, white head of foam. It smelled of blueberries, oak and tart fruits. Tart up front with oakiness from the barrel. Sour but not overpowering.
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4.25/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A-Pours a very nice reddish purple color with a slight head and lacing
A-Aroma has blueberry hints
T-The taste follows the nose with a pleasant blueberry sour flavor
M-A light bodied very well carbonated beer
O-A very nice blueberry sour summer beer
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A-Pours a very nice reddish purple color with a slight head and lacing
A-Aroma has blueberry hints
T-The taste follows the nose with a pleasant blueberry sour flavor
M-A light bodied very well carbonated beer
O-A very nice blueberry sour summer beer
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3.34/5 rDev -21%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.73/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
4.35/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.36/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project "Petite Sour Blueberry
375 ml brown glass bottle
$6.99 @ Cherry Hill Wine, Liquor & Beer (Wegmans), Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: Foam started to come out of the bottle upon opening but perhaps that's because i shook it up a little bit. It's got a nice, short but creamy, pinkish head atop a hazy ruby-orange colored body. Again, maybe it wouldn't have been as hazy if I'd been more careful with it. The aroma suggests blueberries amidst funkiness, "tartness", and oak. It's pretty intense. The flavor is not as funky as the aroma suggests, maybe because there's some sweetish malt and blueberry flavor blocking it. It's still tart, fairly sharp, but not puckering; and the blueberry is stronger than the aroma suggested. It's not bitter at all but none is needed as it finishes tart and dry with some drying oak as well. Blueberry and a mild funkiness lingers in the aftertaste. I'm not sure how to describe the funkiness other than earthy, and a bit like wet straw. The head has now dropped to a thin surface covering but it's left some very nice lacing behind. In the mouth it's light-medium in body and gently effervescent, tingling and caressing the tongue. It's pretty much perfect as any more carbonation would enhance the acidity even further. There's something really special about this beer. It's funky and interesting but at the same time readily accessible. Hmmm, I feel like I could drink several of these and enjoy the last one just as much as the first. Highly recommended.
4/4.25/4.5/4.5/4.25 = 4.36
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look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project "Petite Sour Blueberry
375 ml brown glass bottle
$6.99 @ Cherry Hill Wine, Liquor & Beer (Wegmans), Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: Foam started to come out of the bottle upon opening but perhaps that's because i shook it up a little bit. It's got a nice, short but creamy, pinkish head atop a hazy ruby-orange colored body. Again, maybe it wouldn't have been as hazy if I'd been more careful with it. The aroma suggests blueberries amidst funkiness, "tartness", and oak. It's pretty intense. The flavor is not as funky as the aroma suggests, maybe because there's some sweetish malt and blueberry flavor blocking it. It's still tart, fairly sharp, but not puckering; and the blueberry is stronger than the aroma suggested. It's not bitter at all but none is needed as it finishes tart and dry with some drying oak as well. Blueberry and a mild funkiness lingers in the aftertaste. I'm not sure how to describe the funkiness other than earthy, and a bit like wet straw. The head has now dropped to a thin surface covering but it's left some very nice lacing behind. In the mouth it's light-medium in body and gently effervescent, tingling and caressing the tongue. It's pretty much perfect as any more carbonation would enhance the acidity even further. There's something really special about this beer. It's funky and interesting but at the same time readily accessible. Hmmm, I feel like I could drink several of these and enjoy the last one just as much as the first. Highly recommended.
4/4.25/4.5/4.5/4.25 = 4.36
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4.34/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Reddish copper color with a slight blue hue. Not a trace of foam soon after the pour, with bubbles ascending from the bottom of the glass. Lots of funk on the aroma, with some blueberries, hay, wood, and phenolic notes. Tart but quickly opening up with blueberries, lemons, and then showing some wood and funk. Light bodied and lively carbonation. Outstanding.
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look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Reddish copper color with a slight blue hue. Not a trace of foam soon after the pour, with bubbles ascending from the bottom of the glass. Lots of funk on the aroma, with some blueberries, hay, wood, and phenolic notes. Tart but quickly opening up with blueberries, lemons, and then showing some wood and funk. Light bodied and lively carbonation. Outstanding.
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4.5/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Petite Sour - Blueberry from Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
Beer rating:
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442 ratings
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