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Open Spaces
Side Project Brewing
- From:
- Side Project Brewing
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Flanders Red Ale
Ranked #11 - ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #3,199 - Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 6.26%
- Reviews:
- 4
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 28, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 23, 2017
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 13
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
The Flanders Red has been one of my favorite styles since the start of my affection for sour beer. More than 4 years ago, I took a slightly different approach to this traditional beer by barrel fermenting it with our local microflora in Missouri Chambourcin Barrels. The result is our most precise interpretation of a sour style to date. Loads of cherry, dark fruit, a vibrant acidity and a very well-rounded almond-oak presence define this beer that was aged for 46 months in oak and bottle conditioned for 4 months before release.
Blend #2 was fermented and aged in new-to-us, mature red wine oak barrels for 4 to 6 years and then bottle conditioned for 5 months before being released.
Blend #2 was fermented and aged in new-to-us, mature red wine oak barrels for 4 to 6 years and then bottle conditioned for 5 months before being released.
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Reviewed by WickedBeer from Alabama
4.32/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Blend #2.
The nose on this is fantastic; spiced black cherries, raspberry, fig jam, & hibiscus. The palate punches with sour cherry, balsamic, drying oak, and hints of baking spices. Definitely enjoy warmer; lots of complexity, but way too sour/acidic when cold.
Mar 28, 2023The nose on this is fantastic; spiced black cherries, raspberry, fig jam, & hibiscus. The palate punches with sour cherry, balsamic, drying oak, and hints of baking spices. Definitely enjoy warmer; lots of complexity, but way too sour/acidic when cold.
Reviewed by Luscious_Malfoy from Illinois
4.49/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
poured from a 750mL bottle into a SP stemmed bulb glass. pours a light chestnut brown with three fingers of sandy brown foam. grape must, black cherry, oak, chocolate and even hints of caramel. taste follows with a slightly dry, oaky finish. full mouthfeel. not super carbonated yet it foamed up quite a bit on a pretty gentle pour. fairly tart and acidic but milder at room temp with all the flavors popping. it’s a slow sipper for sure but it’s very good and you can tell a lot when into making it, even if it isn’t everyone’s favorite style.
Dec 17, 2017
Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
4.28/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
750ml bottle, blend 1, served in a Side Project snifter. Pours a medium reddish body, slight orange hue, one finger white head, good carbonation, short retention and no lacing. Smell is heavy vinegar acidity mixed in with sweet caramel and clean malt sweetness. It's sour, and then sweet. I like it. Flavour is a bracing, heavy vinegar acidity that transitions to a sweet caramel and tapioca flavour, with oak throughout. The barrel shows up to play. Mouthfeel is medium-fuller bodied, substantial, good carbonation with a fairly heavy acidity on the finish. Basically, this beer is sour and then sweet. It's an interesting dichotomy.
May 01, 2017
Reviewed by gibgink from Missouri
3.96/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Pours more on the reddish side, with a very strong acidic presence on the nose. Did I say acidic? I think my tongue got heartburn when it hit my mouth. Now I personally have a hard time with sours, because I have a bad heartburn reaction to the acidity, and I could not have very much of this brew. Some might find it a turn off, and others might find it enticing. So at the end of the day this beer rates pretty low on my SP scale, but for the acidity reason.
I did a little research on my own, and I think this is probably the same beer that Cory used for Unlabeled batch 2(that beer being blended and more tolerable to my heartburn reaction).
Apr 13, 2017I did a little research on my own, and I think this is probably the same beer that Cory used for Unlabeled batch 2(that beer being blended and more tolerable to my heartburn reaction).
Open Spaces from Side Project Brewing
Beer rating:
93 out of
100 with
24 ratings
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