There Went The Neighborhood
Black Bottle Brewery
- From:
- Black Bottle Brewery
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 7.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.27 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 27, 2019
- Added:
- Feb 27, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by southdenverhoo from Colorado
4.27/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This beer is outstanding in several ways but misses on being, for me, a 4.75 across the board in a couple ways.
Things I like: Billed as a “Sour Saison Ale,”, this beer hits my personal sour preference just about perfect. Pleasant acidity, tart rather than aggressively sour, lactic rather than acetic, it’s really, really nice. Malt-wise, it’s nicely plummy, stonefruit, maybe a little dash of citrus, but also bready, rummy, raisiny. As a home brewer I think, a little bit of Special B? (Color is amber with a little orange tint). Aroma is all those things I noted re: malts, but also oak and a touch of brett funk and something else I couldn’t put my finger on until I cheated and read the label—white wine. they aged this in barrels previously used for white wine. That I think is where some of that nice acidity came from..
Where this just misses, and I mean this is almost a top ten all-time for me, is in a couple places. First, there’s a residual sweetness which just isn’t quite my thing. A sort of honeyed finish. If this were drier I’d have “taste” at 4.75. Second, I think a saison should have a big fluffy rocky head that lasts until the glass is drained., and the effervescence should be pouring forth from any nucleation points in the glass, throughout. This didn’t have that: in fact the head dissipated before I had fully rinsed the bottle before tossing it in the recycling. From which I had to retrieve it because I wanted to read the brewery notes. Better head, “look” would be 4.75, better carbonation, the “feel” would have been 4.5 or 4.75.Overall would have gone up too. Whatever my numerical rating is could have easily been a half point higher. But this is right up there with the Russian River stuff, to me.
Very highly recommended.
[They say in the label this is basically There Goes The Neighborhood, their rye saison, with a little brett and lactose added and aged in white wine barrels. I chose American Wild Ale because of this description, but maybe it should be classified a Saison?]
Feb 27, 2019Things I like: Billed as a “Sour Saison Ale,”, this beer hits my personal sour preference just about perfect. Pleasant acidity, tart rather than aggressively sour, lactic rather than acetic, it’s really, really nice. Malt-wise, it’s nicely plummy, stonefruit, maybe a little dash of citrus, but also bready, rummy, raisiny. As a home brewer I think, a little bit of Special B? (Color is amber with a little orange tint). Aroma is all those things I noted re: malts, but also oak and a touch of brett funk and something else I couldn’t put my finger on until I cheated and read the label—white wine. they aged this in barrels previously used for white wine. That I think is where some of that nice acidity came from..
Where this just misses, and I mean this is almost a top ten all-time for me, is in a couple places. First, there’s a residual sweetness which just isn’t quite my thing. A sort of honeyed finish. If this were drier I’d have “taste” at 4.75. Second, I think a saison should have a big fluffy rocky head that lasts until the glass is drained., and the effervescence should be pouring forth from any nucleation points in the glass, throughout. This didn’t have that: in fact the head dissipated before I had fully rinsed the bottle before tossing it in the recycling. From which I had to retrieve it because I wanted to read the brewery notes. Better head, “look” would be 4.75, better carbonation, the “feel” would have been 4.5 or 4.75.Overall would have gone up too. Whatever my numerical rating is could have easily been a half point higher. But this is right up there with the Russian River stuff, to me.
Very highly recommended.
[They say in the label this is basically There Goes The Neighborhood, their rye saison, with a little brett and lactose added and aged in white wine barrels. I chose American Wild Ale because of this description, but maybe it should be classified a Saison?]
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