King's Nectar 3 In 1 Hybrid Ale
Whistle Stop Restaurant & Woodman Brewery
- From:
- Whistle Stop Restaurant & Woodman Brewery
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 7.42%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 13, 2012
- Added:
- Feb 01, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois
3.62/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Three subsequent pours at the GTMW '11, review from quick scrawled notes, just found in last years' program.
The story behind the experience was almost more interesting than the beer, but this was my favorite of the 4-5 that were available at the fest.
We had recently been to the bar/brewery, and mentioned this to the brewer, who was very guarded and seemed skeptical of that fact. He sat on a bucket, at eye level to the table, and filled glasses under the table... which was a bit odd. Attempted some casual conversation about this beer, and again were met with tight-lipped answers about the style and what the "3" components were meant to be. Maybe he was shocked somebody drank 3 pours of the same beer, or the explanation was just too long, who knows. If you can't explain your own beer to someone that asks, what's the point?
On to the beer itself...
Tawny orange, some sediment visible and a thin froth at the edges. Fruity aroma, definite honey and vinous notes that were lightly sweet but somewhat complex. Taste had a white wine tartness to it, pithy fruit with some honey and grainy traces as well. Body was a bit watery like most of the Woodman brews, but this had slightly more heft to it. From what I recall this was the highest abv brew that he had at the fest, maybe 8-9%. It was refreshing, and definitely ambitious, though it still could use some tweaking to be something great. Likely could be classified as a Braggot, due to the use of honey and grapes. Points for creativity, hope future batches have more body to them.
Blurb from Woodman Brewery on facebook:
"We try NOT to conform to style of beer, because we want to be different. The idea behind the King's Nectar is to make it a Wine(the grape flavor in the background), Liquor(Saffron, the worlds most expensive spice is boiled in), and of course, the beer(grains). The ABV should be at around 7.5% Feel free to give your own impressions, because there is no beer in any store quite like it! Thanks for trying us out!!!!"
Apr 13, 2012The story behind the experience was almost more interesting than the beer, but this was my favorite of the 4-5 that were available at the fest.
We had recently been to the bar/brewery, and mentioned this to the brewer, who was very guarded and seemed skeptical of that fact. He sat on a bucket, at eye level to the table, and filled glasses under the table... which was a bit odd. Attempted some casual conversation about this beer, and again were met with tight-lipped answers about the style and what the "3" components were meant to be. Maybe he was shocked somebody drank 3 pours of the same beer, or the explanation was just too long, who knows. If you can't explain your own beer to someone that asks, what's the point?
On to the beer itself...
Tawny orange, some sediment visible and a thin froth at the edges. Fruity aroma, definite honey and vinous notes that were lightly sweet but somewhat complex. Taste had a white wine tartness to it, pithy fruit with some honey and grainy traces as well. Body was a bit watery like most of the Woodman brews, but this had slightly more heft to it. From what I recall this was the highest abv brew that he had at the fest, maybe 8-9%. It was refreshing, and definitely ambitious, though it still could use some tweaking to be something great. Likely could be classified as a Braggot, due to the use of honey and grapes. Points for creativity, hope future batches have more body to them.
Blurb from Woodman Brewery on facebook:
"We try NOT to conform to style of beer, because we want to be different. The idea behind the King's Nectar is to make it a Wine(the grape flavor in the background), Liquor(Saffron, the worlds most expensive spice is boiled in), and of course, the beer(grains). The ABV should be at around 7.5% Feel free to give your own impressions, because there is no beer in any store quite like it! Thanks for trying us out!!!!"
Reviewed by WastingFreetime from Wisconsin
3.12/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Reviewed from session notes.
This... is a tough one to classify, as far as beer category for the posting. I picked up a bottle on a whim for my Woodmans session. The only ingredients I know for certain are that this beer was made with saffron and some kind of grape puree or juice. Which would be a fruit beer except that the label directly mentions hybridizing 3 styles. And I'm having a super hard time identifying the other two (styles). For now I'm just calling this one a fruit beer and I'm throwing away all notions of reviewing the beer "to style" in favor of simply seeing what I like and don't like about it.
A. Appears a opaquely clouded (all sediment clouding, I don't believe in decanting) golden-orange color with an eggshell colored foam collar for a head and some medium lacing.
S. Has a strong white grape juice aroma on top of a pronounced biscuit malt nose. Also present is a kind of "dry mead honey" aroma. Perhaps mead is one the three styles hybridized? I don't know for certain. I can't tease out any particular hop aroma from this one.
T. Starts out as a semi-dry Riesling sort of wine flavor, transforms into a very dry sort of watery and bland English Brown ale with herbal punctuation, finishes as a dry mead sort of flavor. Its absolutely bizarre, and I love it like I like all strange and unusual beers. But it can also be said that it lacks focus... I say, try it yourself and see if you like it, especially if you have a taste for the "weird beers".
M. Light and thin in texture, not very well carbonated.
Feb 01, 2012This... is a tough one to classify, as far as beer category for the posting. I picked up a bottle on a whim for my Woodmans session. The only ingredients I know for certain are that this beer was made with saffron and some kind of grape puree or juice. Which would be a fruit beer except that the label directly mentions hybridizing 3 styles. And I'm having a super hard time identifying the other two (styles). For now I'm just calling this one a fruit beer and I'm throwing away all notions of reviewing the beer "to style" in favor of simply seeing what I like and don't like about it.
A. Appears a opaquely clouded (all sediment clouding, I don't believe in decanting) golden-orange color with an eggshell colored foam collar for a head and some medium lacing.
S. Has a strong white grape juice aroma on top of a pronounced biscuit malt nose. Also present is a kind of "dry mead honey" aroma. Perhaps mead is one the three styles hybridized? I don't know for certain. I can't tease out any particular hop aroma from this one.
T. Starts out as a semi-dry Riesling sort of wine flavor, transforms into a very dry sort of watery and bland English Brown ale with herbal punctuation, finishes as a dry mead sort of flavor. Its absolutely bizarre, and I love it like I like all strange and unusual beers. But it can also be said that it lacks focus... I say, try it yourself and see if you like it, especially if you have a taste for the "weird beers".
M. Light and thin in texture, not very well carbonated.
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