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Whiskers On Kittens
D9 Brewing Company
- From:
- D9 Brewing Company
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
Ranked #489 - ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #8,204 - Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 8.35%
- Reviews:
- 13
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 05, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 23, 2015
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 20
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.
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Ratings by buckyp:
Rated by buckyp from South Carolina
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Apr 20, 2017
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Apr 20, 2017
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by patre_tim from Thailand
3.99/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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.
Sep 29, 2020Smells 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.
Reviewed by DrDemento456 from Pennsylvania
4.25/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
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!
Jul 19, 2020Reviewed by Beejay from Virginia
3.92/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
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.
Apr 06, 2020S: 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.
Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland
4.09/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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.
Jan 28, 2020Reviewed by superspak from North Carolina
4.2/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.2/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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.
Jun 21, 2019Rated by klastinger from Florida
3.93/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Nice blonde sour with a very refreshing taste.
Apr 01, 2019Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.9/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
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.
Mar 03, 2019This 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.
Whiskers On Kittens from D9 Brewing Company
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
76 ratings
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