Plumtastic - Single Barrel - Barbados Rum
OEC Brewing (Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores)

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From:
OEC Brewing (Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores)
 
Connecticut, United States
Style:
Wild Ale
ABV:
7.3%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
4.06 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 08, 2020
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Mar 08, 2020
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Sour, fruity, oaky with notes of dark fruit and plums, rich and balanced with some undernotes of rum barrels and a dry finish. Collaboration with LoverBeer, blended barrel aged sour ales matured on Italian plums, then double matured in a Barbados rum barrel for 3 months
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.06/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at OEC Brewing in Oxford, CT.

This one pours a dark purplish brown color, with a small white head, and not lacing.

This smells like red wine, very sour plums, rum spice, white wine vinegar, oak, and dark fruit.

Some OEC sours lean in to the vinegar arena, and this touches on that just a little bit. It's nothing too overwhelming, luckily. The rum barrel is a very nice partner to the plum's dark fruit and slight spice type character. There's some nice oak character that dries out the acidity, and keeps it crisp on the finish. There's a lot of dark fruit, obviously, and a bit of red wine type character, even though it's not in wine barrels.

This is dry, with a pretty tart finish. It's a slow sipper, as it is definitely pretty intensely flavored.

I was bummed to just miss being able to get a bottle of this one, but I was happy to try it anyway.
Mar 08, 2020