American Graffiti
Black Bottle Brewery
- From:
- Black Bottle Brewery
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 7.3%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 1.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 23, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 17, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
[Reviewed from notes taken in Winter 2014.]
750ml bottle cost $20 @ Black Bottle. Served into a stem-goblet.
HEAD: Lasts only 10 seconds. offering white foam a half finger in height. Leaves no lacing on the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Clear translucent peach colour. Clean; no particulate or lees are visible within. Average vibrance.
Looks nice for a sour. Not unique or special, but nice.
AROMA: Peach fruit, fruity hop notes, oak, barrel sugars, and a light hint of sourness (probably lactobacillus-induced). Blonde malts; Belgian pale malts.
A pleasant aroma of mild strength.
I'm not finding the Scotch barrel notes this is intended to have at all. I definitely hoped for more sourness and bacterial notes.
I detect no off-notes or overt alcohol.
TASTE: Peach fruit, fruity hops, blonde malts, Belgian pale malts, white oak throughout, and ample barrel sugars. Has a nice albeit restrained lactic sourness - maybe a 3-4/10 in terms of intensity (hardly puckering).
Above average depth of flavour. Average flavour duration and intensity.
I don't taste any Scotch/Scotch barrel notes at all.
It's balanced and approachable, but not real intricate. Has a nice subtlety to it in terms of the white oak. Cohesively built, but not a gestalt whole of a beer. It's tasty. I like it.
TEXTURE: Lightly smacky on the palate. Smooth and wet. A bit overcarbonated. Medium-bodied. Of apt thickness. Complements the taste well, boasting a good overall presence on the palate with apt acidity for a sour ale.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy.
OVERALL: It's a nice drinkable sour from Black Bottle, but $20 per bottle is unwarranted given its level of quality. I'd get it again were it not for that price. Worth trying once. I'm excited to see where Black Bottle's sour programme goes in the future.
Low B (3.52) / GOOD
May 23, 2017750ml bottle cost $20 @ Black Bottle. Served into a stem-goblet.
HEAD: Lasts only 10 seconds. offering white foam a half finger in height. Leaves no lacing on the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Clear translucent peach colour. Clean; no particulate or lees are visible within. Average vibrance.
Looks nice for a sour. Not unique or special, but nice.
AROMA: Peach fruit, fruity hop notes, oak, barrel sugars, and a light hint of sourness (probably lactobacillus-induced). Blonde malts; Belgian pale malts.
A pleasant aroma of mild strength.
I'm not finding the Scotch barrel notes this is intended to have at all. I definitely hoped for more sourness and bacterial notes.
I detect no off-notes or overt alcohol.
TASTE: Peach fruit, fruity hops, blonde malts, Belgian pale malts, white oak throughout, and ample barrel sugars. Has a nice albeit restrained lactic sourness - maybe a 3-4/10 in terms of intensity (hardly puckering).
Above average depth of flavour. Average flavour duration and intensity.
I don't taste any Scotch/Scotch barrel notes at all.
It's balanced and approachable, but not real intricate. Has a nice subtlety to it in terms of the white oak. Cohesively built, but not a gestalt whole of a beer. It's tasty. I like it.
TEXTURE: Lightly smacky on the palate. Smooth and wet. A bit overcarbonated. Medium-bodied. Of apt thickness. Complements the taste well, boasting a good overall presence on the palate with apt acidity for a sour ale.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy.
OVERALL: It's a nice drinkable sour from Black Bottle, but $20 per bottle is unwarranted given its level of quality. I'd get it again were it not for that price. Worth trying once. I'm excited to see where Black Bottle's sour programme goes in the future.
Low B (3.52) / GOOD
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