Native/Wild: Estate Honey
Oxbow Brewing Company
- From:
- Oxbow Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.09 | pDev: 9.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 25, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 15, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Native/Wild: Estate Honey is a spontaneously-fermented farmhouse ale brewed with Maine grains, aged hops, and well water with estate wildflower honey added in our coolship. After fermentation and aging in oak barrels, this beer is naturally conditioned in the bottle with additional estate honey and aged in our cellars. We have used the honey from our Newcastle apiary in a variety of our beers before, but this is our first time incorporating it into our spontaneous farmhouse ale, Native/Wild. Gold in color with notes of stone fruit, ripe pear, orange blossom, and gentle oak with a bright acidity and a dry, mineral finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ScaryEd from New Hampshire
3.55/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
750 ml bottle into a tulip glass.
Pours a hazy golden straw color with 2 fingers of effervescent white head. Leaves a crown of lacing around the glass. Good retention.
Aromas of pear, grass, funk, green olives, and flowers.
The flavor brings notes of ripe pears, peaches, green apple, vinegar, hay amd funk, with just a hint of honey on the finish.
Feel is medium bodied with good carbonation. Very dry and acidic.
Overall, a pretty good wild/farmhouse ale. The honey adds just a touch of sweetness to an otherwise funky and acidic beer. Not worth $25 though. Not even close.
Apr 06, 2021Pours a hazy golden straw color with 2 fingers of effervescent white head. Leaves a crown of lacing around the glass. Good retention.
Aromas of pear, grass, funk, green olives, and flowers.
The flavor brings notes of ripe pears, peaches, green apple, vinegar, hay amd funk, with just a hint of honey on the finish.
Feel is medium bodied with good carbonation. Very dry and acidic.
Overall, a pretty good wild/farmhouse ale. The honey adds just a touch of sweetness to an otherwise funky and acidic beer. Not worth $25 though. Not even close.
Reviewed by ChipChaight from New York
4.21/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
08/29/20 bottle from the brewery in Portland during 2020 Maine trip. Pours a slightly opaque pale golden yellow with fizzy white head that lingers, smell is bitter sour grassy funk, musty grape skins, green apple flesh, hints of honey peach skin, taste is tart lemon/lime candy, spumante bianca, white grape skins, hints of floral honey sweetness/orange blossom, feel is light, well carbonated, and dry, mildly acidic. Takes me back to drinking spumante bianca from Ristocampo straight from the bottle, vinous effervescent goodness.
Aug 15, 2020
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