Whiskers On Kittens
D9 Brewing Company

 

 

 

Copper with a light haze, and no visible carbonation and no visible head.

Smells of funky and sour.

Taste goes after the nose. It’s a balance of sour with right balance. Funk and charm.

Medium tart body with very little carbonation.

I got this in North Carolina and I’m drinking it California September 27, 2020.

Solid sour ale a bit puckering with notes of peaches stone fruit and a touch of lemon. Didn't quite get a pour but smell was sublime. Decent price for a sour blonde!

 

A: golden in color with a small white head.

S: sweet and tasty with earthy notes, and perhaps a little berry.

T: tartly sour with earthy notes, perhaps a touch of stone fruit.

M: light, crisp, and refreshing.

O: overall quite a nice brew.

 

5 oz pour on tap. I love blonde sours and this was a solid example. Moderately sour with some wheatiness. Fruitiness includes green apple, peach, white grape, and Bartlett pear. Very drinkable and balanced.

 

12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 2/27/2019. Pours slightly hazy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with solid retention, that reduces to a thin ring of lace. Light spotty lacing on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas and flavors of big tart/sour lemon, lime, orange, peach, plum, pear, apricot, melon, red/green apple, white grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, floral, grass, wheat, cracker, and white bread; with lighter notes of oaken vanilla, peppercorn, leathery/musty/lacto funk, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate lactic tart/sourness, Brett tang, and light yeast/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic/spicy yeast, moderate oak, and pale/wheat malt flavors; with an awesome malt/tart/sourness, and yeast/oak spiciness balance; with minimal puckering flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering tart/sour/spiciness and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/acidic/tangy, and fairly tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is an awesome sour blonde ale. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic/spicy yeast, moderate oak, and pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/tannic/drying finish; not overly lactic. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Awesomely well rounded Brett/Bacteria complexity; with great oak presence, and pale/wheat malts against acidity. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp drying. A really enjoyable offering, and impressive style example.

 

 

 

Nice blonde sour with a very refreshing taste.

Thanks Dwayne.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a bronzed golden yellow color with a super quickly dissipating little white head. No lace.
The aroma had some apple cider vinegar punching at some lemon juice - slightly sour then some grassy hop notes and some woody sour features.
The flavor was moderately sour with an ample tart and sweet apple cider to acidic vinegary character. Acidic sour lemon to apple-like aftertaste, pretty quick.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied, maybe a touch under with a fair sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt mostly good, maybe a touch under. ABV seemed on par. Definitely a sour woody to green apple crisp finish.
Overall, good American wild ale, definitely more or less the old school sort of quality and not so fruit forward as many are these days. I'd have this again.

 

 

 

I am CANtinuing New G7, I mean, D9, New Beer Summit, I mean, Sunday (Weak, I mean, Week 694) with this beer. It's going to be yuge!

From the bottle: "A blonde sour ale made with a few of our favorite things. Sweet, floral and exploding with sour flavor, this ancient ale was made born in Venlo, named in Düsseldorf, adopted by Vienna and reenvissioned by our brewers to capture to essence of Austria. Bold, crisp and majestic as the Alps, this wild sour ale sings upon the hilltops."

I Pop!ped the cap & started a slow, gentle pour since I have no idea what to expect from these Wild beers! I love getting wild, but at this hour, with a workday looming, nah. Once properly decanted, an in-glass swirl raised the briefest finger of fizzy, tawny head yet before fading to wisps, leaving no trace of its presence. Say, is there actual cat in this beer? Color was unquestionably solid Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9) with NE-quality clarity. Meow! 8=O I will be up front & say that as a hophead with GIRD, this is usually NOT my cuppa, but the nose was citrusy and even honey-like & I perked up like a cat when the CAN opener starts. Meow! Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but not much beyond, either. The laser-quick effect of the claws on this was downright startling! Meow! It shot right into the back of my mouth as if a mouse were cowering back there & then unleashed on the hinges of my jaw, making my ears ring in agonized response. Oh, my, Whiskers! Be a nice kitty, whydoncha? Meow! No pucker, so this was not tart in any way, shape or form. Just sour. Whew. I am stunned that it goes at such a relatively low price point! I have had others of this ilk that made me regret my outlay, but here, I was down with it. The tastes ranged from melon/cantaloupe to lemon/grapefruit to vinegar to that sour smell that ashtrays used to give off the following morning as I chewed my arm off to quietly escape, deep in the throes of regret. Well, YMMV. Finish was gaspingly dry. Gack! Meow! I need some water & my inhaler. Y'know, I actually enjoy this sort of abuse.