Turning, Turning
TRVE Brewing Co.

been pretty jazzed to try this one, i love their mixed culture stuff, and fig and spearmint seems like a mighty interesting combination for a funky beer, but it somehow works, is festive for this time of year whether they intended that or not, and overall another baller release from these guys, the first i have seen from them in this shape bottle, a cool look for sure. honey to light orange colored, a little sediment in the bottom, soft haze throughout, fizzy short white head but lots of carbonation, appears well bottle conditioned. the nose is awesome sour and herbal and sweet and wintery and woody, the oak pops, white wine notes, then the sweet fig, richer than any malt in here, pale underneath it so it pops, raisin and molasses hints to it, a little red fruitiness, and the herbal mint is real identifiable, almost an apple mint thing, even a white sage note to it, pungent but appropriate, neat against the lemony sourness and light bretty funk, its old and new at the same time, excited, and very weirdly appealing to me! its neat that the fig seems largely fermented out, in that this isnt sugary to drink, but its flavor is retained, definite wet tobacco and raisin to it, mostly on the finish. the mint it vibrant and fresh and all though this, only slightly medicinal, and wrapped up with other herbs to me, faint lemongrass with the fruity bacterial element and vinous side, white pepper maybe too, almost belgian esters for a flash, green pear and all, and its super funky, farmy, wet animal, mature too, love this wow, so much to taste and it changes as it warms and sits, more sour later, more mint too, incredibly complex and these two things i never would have thought to put together end up really complimenting each other, its like sweet and umami and fresh and savory all at once, very compelling, and the uplifting carbonation and almost soothing newish oak are just right for it as well. really strange, really good, trve slays!