Sour Big Head Nut Brown
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 3.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 19, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 01, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle, a sour brown ale made so by spending some time in a cask that formerly held Kettle Valley Caboose red wine, since, um, '2011'?
This beer pours a murky, dark dishwater brown colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, finely frothy, and somewhat fizzy ecru head, which leaves a few instances of iceberg profile lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of sour red wine vinegar, a bit of dry white cheese, grainy, bready caramel malt, oily bar-top nuts, and well understated earthy, leafy hops. The taste is sharp, acidic red fruit, a hint of phenolic yeast, more bready caramel malt, a touch of wet saltine cracker, gritty nuts, and plain leafy, woodsy-esque hops.
The carbonation is quite low and hard to discern at times, but seems capable in its supportive duties, the body medium-light in weight, as that wispy acetic acid nature just cuts right through things, including an otherwise commendable smoothness. It finishes fairly dry, the soured red fruit and pithy nuttiness doing the most to linger and stand out.
Grizzly Paw has not a bad barrel-treatment sourness candidate in the brown ale, and it shows, unlike with the IPA. Overall, the red wine cask does sort of take over, but in a benevolent, 'can't we just get along' manner. Interesting, and a good sign of things to come at this mountainside brewery.
Jun 04, 2015This beer pours a murky, dark dishwater brown colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, finely frothy, and somewhat fizzy ecru head, which leaves a few instances of iceberg profile lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of sour red wine vinegar, a bit of dry white cheese, grainy, bready caramel malt, oily bar-top nuts, and well understated earthy, leafy hops. The taste is sharp, acidic red fruit, a hint of phenolic yeast, more bready caramel malt, a touch of wet saltine cracker, gritty nuts, and plain leafy, woodsy-esque hops.
The carbonation is quite low and hard to discern at times, but seems capable in its supportive duties, the body medium-light in weight, as that wispy acetic acid nature just cuts right through things, including an otherwise commendable smoothness. It finishes fairly dry, the soured red fruit and pithy nuttiness doing the most to linger and stand out.
Grizzly Paw has not a bad barrel-treatment sourness candidate in the brown ale, and it shows, unlike with the IPA. Overall, the red wine cask does sort of take over, but in a benevolent, 'can't we just get along' manner. Interesting, and a good sign of things to come at this mountainside brewery.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.44/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.44/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Grizzly Paw's first of their Sour beer series.
Appearance - Pours a chestnut brown with a finger of foamy beige head.
Smell - sour aromas of grapes, caramel malts, toffee, earthy hops, hint of nuttiness.
Taste - Starts of with a pungent hit from the grapes then goes into the caramel malts, hint of toffee, earthy hops, and hint of nuttiness.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a lingering sweetness from the barrel.
Overall - Good on Grizzly Paw for trying this type of style. I find the barrel takes dominance and the brown ale characteristics are lost in this one - its too bad because I was hoping to get some of those flavours to coexist with the barrel.
Feb 01, 2015Appearance - Pours a chestnut brown with a finger of foamy beige head.
Smell - sour aromas of grapes, caramel malts, toffee, earthy hops, hint of nuttiness.
Taste - Starts of with a pungent hit from the grapes then goes into the caramel malts, hint of toffee, earthy hops, and hint of nuttiness.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a lingering sweetness from the barrel.
Overall - Good on Grizzly Paw for trying this type of style. I find the barrel takes dominance and the brown ale characteristics are lost in this one - its too bad because I was hoping to get some of those flavours to coexist with the barrel.
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