La Fosse
Side Project Brewing

#185, just ok

 

 

Look - haze yellow fantastic rimming and lacing
Smell - tart stone fruit like apricot peach
Taste - candied tart apricot, just delicious
Feel - medium body and fizz medium carb
Overall - delicious

 

 

 

 

375ml bottle. Label has '2022' vintage.
Cloudy, straw colored body. Brief white head. No lacing.
Aroma is apricot and wild ale. Leather, pear, and peach.
Taste is apricot with leather, grassy, and white grape.
Medium mouth feel. Dry finish. Okay carbonation.
Sublime nose and flavors, with apricot as the base note.

 

 

Purchased a bottle of this beer at the brewery in March.

Poured into a tulip glass. Hazy yellow color with brief effervescent white head with little lacing. Smell and taste of ripe, tart fruit. Apricot and peaches. Tart but a mellow smooth flavor. Nice full feel. Wonderfully refreshing. Excellent wild ale.

 

Taking inspiration from famous Brussel's apricot sour ale, Side Project is brewing more like pros when brewing and aging their own unique spin on the fruited gueuze style.

La Fosse brings a golden tinge to an otherwise bubbly champagne pour. But the beer strikes the nose with force as the overwhelming sour scent tightens the jaws and wets the whistle with fruit, funk and fauna. A scantly sweet introduction is of light wafer, sourdough and a brief hint of taffy.

But anything seeming sweet is short and succinct on the middle palate. The session quickly favors the stone fruit with a light orange, mango and peach character. Shying away from fruit rollup, the beer quickly trends vinous and winey with sharp chardonnay, bubbly dryness and a piquant spice. Its bracing acidity washes any thirst from the palate as the late taste brings an earthen tone of balsa, burlap and extended wood-age white wine.

Light, crisp and highly refreshing, the ale is a cleaner taste compared to more Brussels brewed versions, but this brighter, cleaner and fruitier version is just as good.

Finally made it for a visit to Side Project and they happened to have bottles of this for on-site so got one and no regearts! Sour but not too sour and just fully of ripe, juicy apricot flavor; glad I got it!

 

Drank as part of a beer tasting with Ron. Not sure about the price. Cool bottle, neat cap. Consumed on 04/07/23, review from notes.

A&S: The beer's appearance is bright orange at first and moves to a muddy orange as the remaining beer and sediment are poured in. The head is fizzy and big, there is some lacing. The aroma is powerful! Chalky yeast, tart peaches, and apricots.

T&M: The taste is acidic, fruity, tart, and lemony. Very clean. Cereal finish. Tartness is cleared out when the sediment is poured in and the funk comes through more than before. The high carbonation is champagne-like at first, then comes in a little more creamy later on.

Overall: It is one of the better beers I have ever had. Perfect for a warm summer day.