Sudden Zest
Crime & Punishment Brewing Company
- From:
- Crime & Punishment Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Gose
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 10.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 21, 2017
- Added:
- May 03, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Citra dry - hopped blood orange Gose! Brewed with wheat and oats, kettle soured, hopped singularly with a whirlpool of Citra, with additions of sea salt and coriander, fermented with a blend of Orval yeast and Brettanomyces Bruxenellis with 126lbs of blood orange puree, and finally dry - hopped with Citra.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Crime & Punishment Brewing Co. "Sudden Zest" - 4.0% ABV
on tap at the brewery on 21 January 2017
$4 / 8 oz.
"Sudden Zest" seems to be a regular at Crime & Punishment, and that's fine by me. If you get there early, I think they open at 11, or particularly for brunch, it's a nice kind of Mimosa-like beer that's refreshing and eye-opening. It's a hazy yellow beneath a fizzy bright white head that drops quickly to nothing, which is common for sour beers. The aroma is earthy and funky with grapefruit and orange. In the mouth it's light-medium in body, and acidic and effervescent. The flavor follows the aroma and it's tart, dry, citrusy, mineralish, subtly spicy and earthy - and it displays clear orange, without any grapefruit. It's not too acidic, and not too puckering (a glass of grapefruit juice is far more acidic; it's probably more like orange juice although that's hard to determine as orange juice also has so much balancing sugar in it). I wish there was a little more character from the Brettanomyces, but at the same time it's good as it is, and I wonder if it was more amped up would it override the orange flavor? Would it become too funky? As-is: very nicely done!
Jan 23, 2017on tap at the brewery on 21 January 2017
$4 / 8 oz.
"Sudden Zest" seems to be a regular at Crime & Punishment, and that's fine by me. If you get there early, I think they open at 11, or particularly for brunch, it's a nice kind of Mimosa-like beer that's refreshing and eye-opening. It's a hazy yellow beneath a fizzy bright white head that drops quickly to nothing, which is common for sour beers. The aroma is earthy and funky with grapefruit and orange. In the mouth it's light-medium in body, and acidic and effervescent. The flavor follows the aroma and it's tart, dry, citrusy, mineralish, subtly spicy and earthy - and it displays clear orange, without any grapefruit. It's not too acidic, and not too puckering (a glass of grapefruit juice is far more acidic; it's probably more like orange juice although that's hard to determine as orange juice also has so much balancing sugar in it). I wish there was a little more character from the Brettanomyces, but at the same time it's good as it is, and I wonder if it was more amped up would it override the orange flavor? Would it become too funky? As-is: very nicely done!
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