Sacred Geometry
Holy Mountain Brewing Company - Interbay Brewery + Taproom
- From:
- Holy Mountain Brewing Company - Interbay Brewery + Taproom
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
Ranked #451 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #12,766 - Avg:
- 4.14 | pDev: 16.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 29, 2025
- Added:
- Nov 11, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
Ale Aged in Oak Barrels on Raspberries
Sacred Geometry is a blend of various oak aged, mixed fermentation beers. After blending, it was racked on top of a large amount of raspberries from Spooner Farms in Puyallup, WA. It then went through a secondary fermentation on the fruit in freshly emptied Washington red wine barrels.
Refermented in the bottle with Brettanomyces.
Sacred Geometry is a blend of various oak aged, mixed fermentation beers. After blending, it was racked on top of a large amount of raspberries from Spooner Farms in Puyallup, WA. It then went through a secondary fermentation on the fruit in freshly emptied Washington red wine barrels.
Refermented in the bottle with Brettanomyces.
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Reviewed by Holderness from Massachusetts
2.1/5 rDev -49.3%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1
2.1/5 rDev -49.3%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1
Undrinkably sour. True vinegar. Maybe the most sour beer I've ever had. Even though this wasn't a gusher, I have to imagine there was some unintentional refermentation in the bottle...
Sep 29, 2025
Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
4.34/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Appearance: Arrives raspberry colored with a mauve head that fades; a few spots linger
Smell: Tart raspberry sromatives with the oak integrated
Taste: Raspberry forward displaying both the sweet and tart aspects of the fruit; big oak impact, through the middle, with the wine barrel creating a vinous aspect with tannins present; moderately tart with some barnyard funk in an otherwise dry finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body but a touch overcarbonated
Overall: Really like the interesting use of the wine barrel here; sets this apart from other raspberry fruited sours
Sep 20, 2022Smell: Tart raspberry sromatives with the oak integrated
Taste: Raspberry forward displaying both the sweet and tart aspects of the fruit; big oak impact, through the middle, with the wine barrel creating a vinous aspect with tannins present; moderately tart with some barnyard funk in an otherwise dry finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body but a touch overcarbonated
Overall: Really like the interesting use of the wine barrel here; sets this apart from other raspberry fruited sours
Reviewed by kemoarps from Washington
4.26/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Disclaimer: this is a 2020 bottle reviewed in 2022, so certain elements may have grown or shrunk over time.
Pour: bloody ruddy murky. Nice little fuzzy off-white head that dissipates and leaves barely a galaxy by the time I get to sipping.
Nose is immediately tart with yeast, but also still carries a strong berry presence. It's the tart brambly-ness that raspberries can bring paired wonderfully with a juiciness, also derived from the berries. Really well integrated together and smells like just what I want from a raspberry sour. I can get some of the mellowing on the bottom end that the oak no doubt offers as well. Just really well done, and this is even after it's sat for a bit.
Flavour carries much of the same profile... raspberries are the prominent note: both their tart berry character as well as the juicy sweetness of the fruit. The tart is more prevalent, however, and this plays across to the brett which is present, but not nearly as prevalent as I would have expected, especially after it's sat for a while. The oak mellowing really plays up here as well as the brett isn't super brett-y, it's mostly just kind of an augmentation of the tartness from the berries and a little bit of faint barnyard funk.
Finish has a nice little sharp uptick, but then mellows almost immediately and really doesn't leave much sour to the end at all. It's almost more of the berry juiciness on the back end as well. I was actually almost looking for a little more pucker/punch as the berries come through and then it gets kind of thin and just kind of leaves the ghostly impression of tartness but none of the actual character itself.
Holy Mountain makes great beer and this is no exception.
Mar 06, 2022Pour: bloody ruddy murky. Nice little fuzzy off-white head that dissipates and leaves barely a galaxy by the time I get to sipping.
Nose is immediately tart with yeast, but also still carries a strong berry presence. It's the tart brambly-ness that raspberries can bring paired wonderfully with a juiciness, also derived from the berries. Really well integrated together and smells like just what I want from a raspberry sour. I can get some of the mellowing on the bottom end that the oak no doubt offers as well. Just really well done, and this is even after it's sat for a bit.
Flavour carries much of the same profile... raspberries are the prominent note: both their tart berry character as well as the juicy sweetness of the fruit. The tart is more prevalent, however, and this plays across to the brett which is present, but not nearly as prevalent as I would have expected, especially after it's sat for a while. The oak mellowing really plays up here as well as the brett isn't super brett-y, it's mostly just kind of an augmentation of the tartness from the berries and a little bit of faint barnyard funk.
Finish has a nice little sharp uptick, but then mellows almost immediately and really doesn't leave much sour to the end at all. It's almost more of the berry juiciness on the back end as well. I was actually almost looking for a little more pucker/punch as the berries come through and then it gets kind of thin and just kind of leaves the ghostly impression of tartness but none of the actual character itself.
Holy Mountain makes great beer and this is no exception.
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