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Benevolence
Wicked Weed Brewing
- From:
- Wicked Weed Brewing
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 6.4%
- Score:
- 92
- Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 5.5%
- Reviews:
- 9
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 17, 2020
- Added:
- Aug 23, 2016
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 7
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Ratings by papposilenus:
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.08/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.08/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
From the 500ml bottle, dated 07/19/16, batch #1199. Served in a tulip.
Pours a heavily hazed copper with a two-finger head of soapy off-white... ecru? ecru foam. The head lasts for a couple of minutes before settling back to a thick coating of scum and a solid sheet of lacing.
Sharp nose of vinegar, raspberries, mildew and damp wood.
Taste is assertively sharp and tangy, with oranges, raspberries, melon and peaches steeped in cider vinegar. After the acidity comes a woody, caramel-creamy smoothness, finishing with a little tangerine-lemon and funky, mildewed carpet off a wet basement floor... which sounds revolting but is really rather interesting and pleasant.
Mouthfeel is light-to-medium, moderately-well carbonated and, somehow, both mouth-puckering and creamy.
If I were actually paid to write reviews you might be entitled to demand that I explain how something can be both mouth-puckering and creamy at the same time but, as it is, screw you. It just is.
Oct 05, 2016Pours a heavily hazed copper with a two-finger head of soapy off-white... ecru? ecru foam. The head lasts for a couple of minutes before settling back to a thick coating of scum and a solid sheet of lacing.
Sharp nose of vinegar, raspberries, mildew and damp wood.
Taste is assertively sharp and tangy, with oranges, raspberries, melon and peaches steeped in cider vinegar. After the acidity comes a woody, caramel-creamy smoothness, finishing with a little tangerine-lemon and funky, mildewed carpet off a wet basement floor... which sounds revolting but is really rather interesting and pleasant.
Mouthfeel is light-to-medium, moderately-well carbonated and, somehow, both mouth-puckering and creamy.
If I were actually paid to write reviews you might be entitled to demand that I explain how something can be both mouth-puckering and creamy at the same time but, as it is, screw you. It just is.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by StoutElk_92 from Massachusetts
4.67/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.67/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Date bottled: 7.29.16
Pours copper amber orange color with a dense creamy white foam head. Smells real complex and earthy with wet leaves, barnyard foresty funk, oaky spice, dried fruit, grains and earthy hops. Tastes tart, funky, complex with barnyard horse blanket, wet leaves, dusty forest floor, oak barrel, wine, dried fruit, apricot, some sweet spice, bready malty grains, with earthy aged hops. Feels medium bodied, creamy smooth with moderate carbonation. Overall a real nice and complex barrel-aged sour ale.
Mar 17, 2020Pours copper amber orange color with a dense creamy white foam head. Smells real complex and earthy with wet leaves, barnyard foresty funk, oaky spice, dried fruit, grains and earthy hops. Tastes tart, funky, complex with barnyard horse blanket, wet leaves, dusty forest floor, oak barrel, wine, dried fruit, apricot, some sweet spice, bready malty grains, with earthy aged hops. Feels medium bodied, creamy smooth with moderate carbonation. Overall a real nice and complex barrel-aged sour ale.
Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
4.35/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Appearance: Pours a very hazy peach nectar color, the head reasonably impressive; splashy lacing left all around
Smell: Green apple, white wine grape and a hint of berry, all bathed in acetic tones
Taste: Acetic fruit tones of green apple, white wine grape and a hint of cranberry; with both funk and caramel elements arriving, in the middle; oaky, woodsy and acetically sour, through the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation
Overall: Really interesting flavors in this sour; I like what the hint of caramel (like what typically is found in an amber ale) brings to this beer
Dec 25, 2016Smell: Green apple, white wine grape and a hint of berry, all bathed in acetic tones
Taste: Acetic fruit tones of green apple, white wine grape and a hint of cranberry; with both funk and caramel elements arriving, in the middle; oaky, woodsy and acetically sour, through the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation
Overall: Really interesting flavors in this sour; I like what the hint of caramel (like what typically is found in an amber ale) brings to this beer
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
4/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Dark orange color with off-white head. Aroma is funky with nice farmhouse character and unripe fruits. Taste starts sour, quite dry, rustic, funky but not too yeasty. Medium body and carbonation. Overall it's really nice gueuze style sour ale with balanced funk and sourness.
Nov 28, 2016
Benevolence from Wicked Weed Brewing
Beer rating:
92 out of
100 with
44 ratings
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