Kettle Sour Plum Porter
Old Yale Brewing Co.
- From:
- Old Yale Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 5.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 08, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.69/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - of course, the label blurb professes this as a 'perfect beer to enjoy on a cool (hah!), dark winter night', so they release it in Spring.
This beer pours a very dark, near-black brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves very little in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.
It smells of lightly roasted and bready caramel malt, chocolate milk, subtle plum and prune fruity notes, a further free-range ashiness, and very tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gently toasted pale and caramel malts, sort of soured milk, bittersweet cocoa powder, a muddled black stone fruitiness, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty weak in its barely-functional frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of char keeping things out of blue ribbon contention here. It finishes well off-dry, the soured Porter and fruit tentatively holding hands on the way out.
Overall, this didn't sound like a great idea to start off with, but I suppose that it turned out all right. The plums merge into the malty vector of a dark ale like this, and the sour component oscillates between lactic and fruity, which more or less works. Interesting, and definitely a nice gateway for those beer drinkers (this brewery included) who are just now getting into the sour side of things.
Apr 09, 2017This beer pours a very dark, near-black brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves very little in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.
It smells of lightly roasted and bready caramel malt, chocolate milk, subtle plum and prune fruity notes, a further free-range ashiness, and very tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gently toasted pale and caramel malts, sort of soured milk, bittersweet cocoa powder, a muddled black stone fruitiness, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty weak in its barely-functional frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of char keeping things out of blue ribbon contention here. It finishes well off-dry, the soured Porter and fruit tentatively holding hands on the way out.
Overall, this didn't sound like a great idea to start off with, but I suppose that it turned out all right. The plums merge into the malty vector of a dark ale like this, and the sour component oscillates between lactic and fruity, which more or less works. Interesting, and definitely a nice gateway for those beer drinkers (this brewery included) who are just now getting into the sour side of things.
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