Batch #0017 - Cranberry Hibiscus Dubbel
3cross Fermentation Cooperative
- From:
- 3cross Fermentation Cooperative
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Dubbel
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 15.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 13, 2014
- Added:
- Nov 26, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rudzud from Massachusetts
2.6/5 rDev -21%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
2.6/5 rDev -21%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
Thanks, I guess, for BPK59 for sharing his growler of this beer.
A - Poured into a Kate the Great tulip a hazy reddish pink hue with a thin white head that fades slowly to nice wisps, though no lacing. Dig the colour.
S - Hmm...not getting any hibiscus, really really faint cranberry. I also get, as BPK pointed out, a odd smoky/burning aroma on the back end that really throws me for a loop. Zero phenols or typical dubbel notes at all. Eh, no booze though.
T - Taste is tarter cranberries, which is pleasant. However, that is short lived as right when the pallet gets accustomed to the tasty berry I get a wash of well, rotten vegetable. Again, no hibiscus and the odd smoke characteristic again. No phenols or belgian yeast notes, or even any candi sugar. Odd...the cranberry was super tasty, while it lasted.
M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, a touch on the thinner side though the alcohol is hidden wonderfully.
O - Overall, this really doesn't drink like a dubbel at all. If this was viewed as a "fruit" beer, or perhaps even a "belgian wild" I could get behind it, but a dubbel this is not. No phenols, no yeast variants, nadda. Just some tart cranberry and weird smoke. Puzzling.
Serving Type: Growler
Dec 13, 2014A - Poured into a Kate the Great tulip a hazy reddish pink hue with a thin white head that fades slowly to nice wisps, though no lacing. Dig the colour.
S - Hmm...not getting any hibiscus, really really faint cranberry. I also get, as BPK pointed out, a odd smoky/burning aroma on the back end that really throws me for a loop. Zero phenols or typical dubbel notes at all. Eh, no booze though.
T - Taste is tarter cranberries, which is pleasant. However, that is short lived as right when the pallet gets accustomed to the tasty berry I get a wash of well, rotten vegetable. Again, no hibiscus and the odd smoke characteristic again. No phenols or belgian yeast notes, or even any candi sugar. Odd...the cranberry was super tasty, while it lasted.
M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, a touch on the thinner side though the alcohol is hidden wonderfully.
O - Overall, this really doesn't drink like a dubbel at all. If this was viewed as a "fruit" beer, or perhaps even a "belgian wild" I could get behind it, but a dubbel this is not. No phenols, no yeast variants, nadda. Just some tart cranberry and weird smoke. Puzzling.
Serving Type: Growler
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
3.52/5 rDev +7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.52/5 rDev +7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Had at the brewery today.
Light fluffy fizzy head, nice lacing, hazy bright cranberry red color.
Nose musty dank herbs, hibiscus floral spice, nice phenols, faint booze, candy syrup and dried candied fruits, faint faint cranberry.
Taste brings yeast notes out front, some bready biscuity flavours and candi reddish malt. Then earthy herbal hops and hibiscus, floral spices, flowery, with sharp bitterness, not much for cranberry or even tartness, just a touch, candied hibiscus flowers and some good phenols. Tartness kicks in on the back end, tart flemmy finish with earthy herbal hops which don't blend well at all. Little booze note with phenols.
Mouth is med bod, little syrupy note, mild booze warmth and phenols, little tartness and flemmy, decent carb.
Overall mix of too many things, herbs, very mild tartness with no real cranberry, decent phenols, hops really don't mix well. There's a reason you use very aged hops in a wild.
Nov 30, 2014Light fluffy fizzy head, nice lacing, hazy bright cranberry red color.
Nose musty dank herbs, hibiscus floral spice, nice phenols, faint booze, candy syrup and dried candied fruits, faint faint cranberry.
Taste brings yeast notes out front, some bready biscuity flavours and candi reddish malt. Then earthy herbal hops and hibiscus, floral spices, flowery, with sharp bitterness, not much for cranberry or even tartness, just a touch, candied hibiscus flowers and some good phenols. Tartness kicks in on the back end, tart flemmy finish with earthy herbal hops which don't blend well at all. Little booze note with phenols.
Mouth is med bod, little syrupy note, mild booze warmth and phenols, little tartness and flemmy, decent carb.
Overall mix of too many things, herbs, very mild tartness with no real cranberry, decent phenols, hops really don't mix well. There's a reason you use very aged hops in a wild.
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