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Cellar 3: Natura Morta Boysenberry
Green Flash Brewing Co.
- From:
- Green Flash Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.14 | pDev: 8.45%
- Reviews:
- 8
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 21, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 21, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 7
No description / notes.
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Ratings by retry4z:
Rated by retry4z from California
4/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Jul 08, 2016
4/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Jul 08, 2016
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Buck89 from Tennessee
4.04/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A beautiful magenta color. Clear and with a faint light pink head.
Aroma: fresh boysenberry with a hint of vanilla and funk.
Taste: followed the nose. Tart and fresh boysenberry, raspberry, and some grassy funk. Moderately sour.
Feel: light bodied and crisp. Lively carbonation on the palate.
Overall: a great, refreshing, interesting beer.
Jan 07, 2018Aroma: fresh boysenberry with a hint of vanilla and funk.
Taste: followed the nose. Tart and fresh boysenberry, raspberry, and some grassy funk. Moderately sour.
Feel: light bodied and crisp. Lively carbonation on the palate.
Overall: a great, refreshing, interesting beer.
Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
2.94/5 rDev -29%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
2.94/5 rDev -29%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
750 mL bottle. Bright purple body. Smells of strong berries with a jammy sweetness. Tastes sour right off the bat. Nasally sour. Berry sourness. Not quite vinegar. A little oak in the back end. Way too sour for me. Medium carbonation. Tastes ok, but it's nearly undrinkable from sourness.
Jun 21, 2017Rated by CraftBeerRunner from California
4.06/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Sour, slightly funky, fruit flavors abundant. Diving Dog, Oakland, March 2017.
Mar 30, 2017Reviewed by BigIslandfarmer from Minnesota
4.53/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.53/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Poured from the bottle into a stemmed glass. Dark, dark purple with a pink/white head. When held up to the light it's more of a raspberry color. You wouldn't think this is a beer from the look of it. Lacing clings to the glass. Smell is very good! Dark berries, red wine, oak, and the slightest hint of vanilla. Taste is very well balanced. Splits the difference between sour and funky. Balsamic vinegar, cherry, dark berries, oak, and vanilla. Finishes dry. Very similar to a lambic. Good mouth feel for a barrel aged sour. Overall a very well made beer! If you are a fan of lambics, pick up a bottle of this!
Oct 27, 2016Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
4.01/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Appearance: Pours a deep purple color capped by a frothy violet head that fades away rather quickly; a few spots of lacing hang around
Smell: Extraordinarily fruity, with a crushed boysenberry aroma; somewhat funky, vinous and quite acetic
Taste: Acetic boysenberry from the outset, with a growing acetic red wine character; slight funk, in the middle, and dry and oaky through the finish
Mouthfeel; Light to medium body with buoyant carbonation
Overall: I like fruited sours but I prefer a bit more subtlety in the flavor profile; this one beats your palate like a drum
Sep 08, 2016Smell: Extraordinarily fruity, with a crushed boysenberry aroma; somewhat funky, vinous and quite acetic
Taste: Acetic boysenberry from the outset, with a growing acetic red wine character; slight funk, in the middle, and dry and oaky through the finish
Mouthfeel; Light to medium body with buoyant carbonation
Overall: I like fruited sours but I prefer a bit more subtlety in the flavor profile; this one beats your palate like a drum
Reviewed by avalon07 from South Carolina
4.38/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.38/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
L: Poured from a bottle to a tulip glass. Had a dark ruby-brown color and a thick, cloudy consistency. There was an inch and a half of foamy / fizzy, somewhat long-lasting head. Sparse lacing.
S: An odd, yet enticing aroma of lots of fruit, a dank, musty quality (this goes away very quickly), and some malt.
T: There are some light malt notes in the flavor, but it's dominated by fruit. Lots of the advertised boysenberries, some raspberries, a slight tannin presence, blackberries, a little vinous quality, citrus, and a sourness. The flavor resembles that of a lambic or gueuze. Quite vibrant, sweet, and light.
F: A highly carbonated beer with a prickly finish. Light- to medium-bodied.
O: If you like fruity beers, this is a good one to try. It's lively, drinkable, and surprisingly complex.
Sep 07, 2016S: An odd, yet enticing aroma of lots of fruit, a dank, musty quality (this goes away very quickly), and some malt.
T: There are some light malt notes in the flavor, but it's dominated by fruit. Lots of the advertised boysenberries, some raspberries, a slight tannin presence, blackberries, a little vinous quality, citrus, and a sourness. The flavor resembles that of a lambic or gueuze. Quite vibrant, sweet, and light.
F: A highly carbonated beer with a prickly finish. Light- to medium-bodied.
O: If you like fruity beers, this is a good one to try. It's lively, drinkable, and surprisingly complex.
Rated by TheWolf from Delaware
4.17/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Very close to Bretta rose
Aug 15, 2016Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.3/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.3/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Man are boysenberries sour! And that makes it a no-brainer for Green Flash brewers as they embark on a robust farmhouse flavor that favors a sour side. Premiere sourness decorates the fruit and brings the most out of them kicking and screaming.
Rich in a ruby-mauve dark red cloak, the beer settles in the glass with a slight rouge stained column of foam. Fruit hovers over the rim with hints of plum, cider, raspberry, cranberry and rhubarb. Its sweet early palate is of hard blackberry candy with a mildly creamy fruit center.
A beautiful array of flavors spread across the tongue as the jaws tighten and the lips begin to pucker. Plum, blackberry, lime, lemon and white wine vinegar strike the senses with force. Green apple, red grape and balsamic create a sour but savory interplay before a finish of red wine, beet and sour oaken rhubarb.
Medium-light on the palate, the savory dark fruits cling to the mouth and promote a lasting impression of sweetness and fruit but the sheer acidity nearly erases all that as its full sour brunt strips the thirst and teases the palate with a seductive tang and tart display. A mild earthen afterglow of oak and cork give a cellar-like aura to the session in the most delightful way possible.
Aug 13, 2016Rich in a ruby-mauve dark red cloak, the beer settles in the glass with a slight rouge stained column of foam. Fruit hovers over the rim with hints of plum, cider, raspberry, cranberry and rhubarb. Its sweet early palate is of hard blackberry candy with a mildly creamy fruit center.
A beautiful array of flavors spread across the tongue as the jaws tighten and the lips begin to pucker. Plum, blackberry, lime, lemon and white wine vinegar strike the senses with force. Green apple, red grape and balsamic create a sour but savory interplay before a finish of red wine, beet and sour oaken rhubarb.
Medium-light on the palate, the savory dark fruits cling to the mouth and promote a lasting impression of sweetness and fruit but the sheer acidity nearly erases all that as its full sour brunt strips the thirst and teases the palate with a seductive tang and tart display. A mild earthen afterglow of oak and cork give a cellar-like aura to the session in the most delightful way possible.
Cellar 3: Natura Morta Boysenberry from Green Flash Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
91 out of
100 with
35 ratings
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