Tygrisku
Marz Community Brewing

I cracked it open and the thing immediately exploded. Foam everywhere! Had to wipe it up.

Anyway, it pours (violently) a hazy straw color with a bubbly champagne-like head. The smell drew me in: ripe banana, white wine, and leathery funky yeast. I'm a big fan of wine characteristics in sours or similar ales. The taste is the same minus 1. Same characteristics, only less pronounced. No sourness and no presence of hops. It tastes like the fusion of a saison and a bottle of champagne, finishing rather dry with high carbonation. It's rare to have a beer whose feel is more intense than its flavor. I don't know if I'll return to this one, but it was certainly interesting.

This is strangely refreshing, with nice contrasting dry white wine and wood with juicy ipa fruit and hops. Results together to have plenty of funk, yeast, grass, and for fruit: orange, lemon, peach, and pear. Not the most complex actually, because it simplifies itself all together, hard to explain. Very easy drinking somewhat rustic with barnyard feels, but light and bright. Smell is less complex, more typical wild golden ale like. Interesting

 

 

 

a blend of three different wild golden ales aged in wine barrels, with varying levels of hops from what i gather, and clearly incorporating a whole range of critters, as this is both wildly bretty, but also quite piquent, indicative of a bacterial element at work as well, wonderful yeast complexity and also high drinkability, not things that often come together in the same drink! hazy bright yellow beer with a ton of head on it from the bottle, uniform frosted look with no visible sediment. i get a vinous nose, both the barrels and the hops in play right away, with strong pineapple notes from the hops, some mandarin and lemongrass too, summery in its complexion and working amazingly well with the apricot and peach qualities i am getting from the brett complex. the barrels have some tannins to contribute, as well as the oaky maturity, which i think sets this apart from others trying to do the same thing. the flavor is great too, super fresh on the hops, almost a wild ipa character to it, but alas there is so little bitterness to finish, just softly rounded out by the oak and the brett, its farmy and funky and refreshing. seemingly wheat and pils malt based, there isnt a ton of character there but there doesnt need to be, as this works perfectly as a base. the hops and yeasts go together great, its not overly barrel forward, and the wine winds its way through the whole thing. exceptional brew, a fine nightcap on a day spent drinking excellent beers!

Cloudy yellow gold pour with a foamy white head and lots of effervescent bubbles. Aroma of sour fruit and funk. Taste is light and clean with lemongrass, wood and malt flavors initially. As the beer warms some nice tropical fruit flavors develop. Finishes with a mild lemony tartness.

Not barrel aged, not fruit centric. Not overly sour or funky. Special grains? Nope. Special hops? Nada. Just a simple beer made with wild yeast, done correctly.

Tygrisku pours with a modest pale gold and crowned with a creamy eggshell froth. Orchard fruit and citrus bring the fragrance to life, but also with the woodsy action of cedar, balsa, burlap and leather. Early maltiness brings a taste of honeysuckle and fresh bread to the palate.

The ale opens up on the middle palate with a full fruit, spice and earth display. Pear, orange and lemon bounce off of clove, vanilla and lemongrass and white pepper before a brisk pungency of weathered woods, dried leather, hay and peppercorn round out the session. Lightly bitter, the finish comes with the spiciness of saazer hops with lemon pepper and a bright grassiness.

Light in body, the bubbly beer has a creamy but arid texture, light in its profile along the way. A brisk earthiness of sea air and light saddle leather funkiness decorate the aftertaste as the retro aromatic return in brief echoes. The beer has a lightness overall that adds a rustic saison-like drinkability but at the risk of blandness. Tygrisku; more like Kittenisku.