Coeur de Cuvée Blend #8
Side Project Brewing

 

Pours orange with a steady fog to the translucency. Head is two fingers of white foam. Aroma is very mild and delicate citrus, paired alongside oak, lemon grass, stone, and grassy hops. Fairly dainty, with a mild acidic start. Balance is good. Flavor profile is a similar storyline, bringing lemon zest, alongside grassy hops, a squeeze of citrus, stone, and oak. As a whole, it leans tart with a mild acidity, drying up slightly at the end. Dynamics are smooth, flowing from start to finish. Mouth feel is medium in thickness with a soft, consistent effervescence. Overall, pairing the light tartness up with the faint citrus sweetness works out well here. Really fun and intriguing to sip on, with the biggest danger being that the sips turn into gulps rather quickly.

Served into a 15.5oz Spiegelau tulip from a 750mL bottle.

 

 

 

Poured at fridge temp. Pours an opaque orange with white head. Nose is sour, funk, lemon. Taste is lemon, vanilla, candy, pear, cherry, funk. This is quite sour! Great overall.

 

Bottle pour into a taster glass.
Gold orange appearance with a modest foamy head. Tart peach, lemon, oak notes. Medium body and carbonation, crisp lively mouthfeel.

This one pours a golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like very tart pear, lemon peel, white wine, and grassy funk.

This is pretty delicious, but very, very tart. It’s lemony, with a lot of delicious earthy pear funk, some citrus and stone fruit, and white wine and oak.

This is light bodied, very puckering, making this a pretty slow sipper overall.

This is delicious, but not necessarily for the faint of heart.

750 mL bottle. Hazy yellow. Smells of pears, wheat, lemon, white wine. Tastes of bright white wine, cidery notes, pear, tart up front, but dies down. Grainy back end and mineral finish. Medium body. Bright, tart, fruity, winey, and overall very pleasant.

poured from a 750mL bottle into a SP stemmed bulb glass. pours a semi hazy orange with a finger of fluffy white foam that reduces down to nothing in an instant. tart pear and even fleshy peach on the nose with a touch of oak and some mustiness. taste follows and the fruit aspect is like somewhere between PdF, AdF and Fuzzy. pear has always been a more subtle flavor to me. very watered down. but this is slight tart with some stone fruit qualities. medium-full mouthfeel that drinks somewhere between beer and a semi-dry white wine. this was excellent. delicate in both the base beer and the fruit. fairly complex and not overly sour. nice CdC addition.

This is exceptional. I love the Chablis influence; lots of tart citrus, pear, and a touch of salinity with medium acid. Slight musty tartness that’s more detectable on the nose. This one’s juicy & refreshing, while still being slightly dry and puckering.

 

Look - bright golden yellow with a slight haze and a slight white head and initial rimming slight lacing
Smell - tart oak citrus pear
Taste - nice pear tart with a really nice oakiness to it
Feel - medium full body with a very very light carb
Overall - just a delicious beer