The Wild One
Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store

 

 

 

Dark brown in color with a fingernail of beige around the rim and covering half of the top. The aroma is of horse blanket, barnyard funk, and dark cherries. I’m tasting dark cherries, horse blanket, and barnyard funk. The mouth is dry and crisp.

 

Pours a light brownish red with small tan bubbles that dissipate to fast to be really called a head.

Aroma is light sweet from the grain, venous notes from the barrel light tart fruits grapes, cherries, dryness from the oak hints of brett.

Taste follows the nose light brown malt notes hints of sweetness soon dominated by the venous barrel notes, plus the oak and light brett tartness. Normally would have trouble finishing a 750 of a tart sour but this one blends all aspects together so its pretty damn drinkable .

Mouthfeel is light with medium full carbonation without being too much if that makes sense.

Overall a pretty damn good brew.

Clear deep amber/copper color with a minimal tan head. Toasted grain and dark fruity aroma of grapes and cherries. Tart cherry, oak tannin, slight cider vinegar acidity. Medium bodied, goes down easy.

I understand La Folie might have inspired this beer possibly but this one is much better to me. Taste is about the same but there's more fervor to this one. The main plus is this is full bodied where as La Folie felt kind of...watery to me. Solid brew

Bottle from JohnnyHops.
Roughly a year old.
Reminds me of an Oude Bruin.

 

 

Medium reddish brown clean pour save a thin cream ring. Vinous barrel bring out notes of cherry, currant flowers, light brett, and rustic grain. Earth, wine, dark oak, a whisper of cherry skin, hints of lemon and pear, decent underripe cranberry and dried prune, sour brown malts round out. Feel is lighter bodied with a tart and vinous light finish, doesn't build so the end is kind of bland where you want culmination. Good for a rainy day

 

Sour brown ale made with wild yeast, aged up to 8 months in oak foeders; 6.3% abv... Ruddy brown and fairly clear under a finger of tan foam... Tangy apple and tannic oak, moderately sweet, very little bitterness; smooth and amply carbonated; something like sweet grapefruit flesh in there, too... 1/15/21 bottling...

Unknown vintage; drank 6/25/16 on draft @ Sheffield's.

Opaque purple appearance.

No head; no lace.

Sour dark grape & soft grain notes in the nose.

Medium thin mouthfeel.

Dark grape & tart cherry flavors.

Easy to drink, fruity & great for summer. The mild tartness adds a hint of complexity, but this was more fruit beer than sour.

A beer I have missed on many occasions for 5+ years. Now on tap at my local beer bar. How times have changed. On tap at Das Beer Garden. Deep orange with a big white head. Smells of toasted malt, dark fruit, and a bit of vinegar acidity. Tastes of slight vinegar throughout. Never too much, but always present. Green apple, too. Toasted malt. A little bit of a red wine character. Moderately sour. Well carbonated and pretty crisp for what it is. Medium body. Very good.

 

 

On tap at Novare