Brut Fruit Tart: Celebration Grapes
Urban Artifact
- From:
- Urban Artifact
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 6.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2021
- Added:
- May 04, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Made in the same manner as an orange wine and inspired by traditional Champagnes, this beer is brewed with Chardonnay grape must, fermented with the skins and seeds for a month, and then packaged dry and sparkling. Notes of honey, apple juice, sherry, and sourdough can all be found. Complex, dry, and sparkling.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by nlmartin from Ohio
3.49/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
The beer pours an orange coloration with a quickly resolved head. The aroma is venous grapes toasty musty. The flavors have a tanic wine note honey and apple juice notes with a hint of tartness at the finish. The body of the beer is well carbonated. Its a blending of beer and wine I hope to see get further developement.
Feb 22, 2021
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
3.87/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance is more of a burnt orange, nearing amber, but still clear, with very little head emerging.
A moderate toasted bread character comes across first, almost burnt but not quite, pairing with a lightly toasty oak note. Then comes the fruit, where the grape is more bitter, definitely with a more rindy skin character than the sauv blanc one I had before it (as advertised), but still delivering plenty of white wine character for a tart beer, including some booze. It becomes wine-like to the point that, again, it's only the carbonation and a faint hint of malt at the beginning that differentiates it.
Jul 25, 2020A moderate toasted bread character comes across first, almost burnt but not quite, pairing with a lightly toasty oak note. Then comes the fruit, where the grape is more bitter, definitely with a more rindy skin character than the sauv blanc one I had before it (as advertised), but still delivering plenty of white wine character for a tart beer, including some booze. It becomes wine-like to the point that, again, it's only the carbonation and a faint hint of malt at the beginning that differentiates it.
Reviewed by FBarber from Illinois
3.44/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.44/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Pours a pinkish tinged burnt orange color Completely clear and almost still in appearance. Initially there was a short-lived soda like head - white in color - that appeared, fizzed, then disappeared.
The aroma is closer to wine than beer, but you do get that beer wort smell coming through. Otherwise its mostly notes of fruity grapes, a bit of sugary sweetness as well. Honestly - if I wasn't looking for the beer character in the aroma and was served this blind, I would totally assume it was just a sweet wine.
The taste is odd - its got this strong grape must flavor coming through with a noticeable sweetness but then it has also got this yeasty dough-like flavor coming through as well. Has some tannic qualities from the grape skins that give it a bit of a woody note to the flavor. Clocking in at 12% ABV, you do get a bit of alcohol/heat in the flavor profile. Its an odd mixture - kind of reminds me of a cheap fruit wine you'd get from some roadside winery in rural America- you know the kind. That yeastiness just tastes like someone doesn't really know what they're doing with a wine rather than a wine-beer hybrid.
Feel is smooth with really prickly vibrant carbonation. Kind of hot on the back end leaving a definite warming sensation.
Overall this is an oddball. Its certainly a beer-wine hybrid, but really, its more wine than beer. I honestly didn't care for this. Like I mentioned, it just kind of came off as a bad cheap fruit wine ... Really glad I got to try it, and Ive got one other version to try, but this is one I'll pass on ever having again.
Jul 13, 2020The aroma is closer to wine than beer, but you do get that beer wort smell coming through. Otherwise its mostly notes of fruity grapes, a bit of sugary sweetness as well. Honestly - if I wasn't looking for the beer character in the aroma and was served this blind, I would totally assume it was just a sweet wine.
The taste is odd - its got this strong grape must flavor coming through with a noticeable sweetness but then it has also got this yeasty dough-like flavor coming through as well. Has some tannic qualities from the grape skins that give it a bit of a woody note to the flavor. Clocking in at 12% ABV, you do get a bit of alcohol/heat in the flavor profile. Its an odd mixture - kind of reminds me of a cheap fruit wine you'd get from some roadside winery in rural America- you know the kind. That yeastiness just tastes like someone doesn't really know what they're doing with a wine rather than a wine-beer hybrid.
Feel is smooth with really prickly vibrant carbonation. Kind of hot on the back end leaving a definite warming sensation.
Overall this is an oddball. Its certainly a beer-wine hybrid, but really, its more wine than beer. I honestly didn't care for this. Like I mentioned, it just kind of came off as a bad cheap fruit wine ... Really glad I got to try it, and Ive got one other version to try, but this is one I'll pass on ever having again.
Reviewed by schoolboy from Ohio
4.22/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I split one of these with my son last week and it seemed more natural than this one. Especially with Dewine on the TV. That's enough to make me puke. But I must persevere.
It pours a dirty clear pale brown with no head but some fizziness. The aroma is immediately interesting and says,"drink me." The taste is a strong wine grape taste with a bit of the ale yeast or whatever gets imparted. It's just enough to tell that it is not wine. The whole thing is easy drinking. If they made 16 ounce versions they would be deadly.
Highly recommended.
May 19, 2020It pours a dirty clear pale brown with no head but some fizziness. The aroma is immediately interesting and says,"drink me." The taste is a strong wine grape taste with a bit of the ale yeast or whatever gets imparted. It's just enough to tell that it is not wine. The whole thing is easy drinking. If they made 16 ounce versions they would be deadly.
Highly recommended.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.81/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Grape versus grain. That's what makes beer different from wine. But with the forgiving nature of beer, the use of grapes begins to blur the lines between what separates the two beverages.
Urban Artifact's flirtation with wine takes them to a burnish orange, rosy tinted fruit beer, decorated sparsely with tethers of foam. As Celebration Grapes soon falls still on the eye, its floral, tart, and musty sweet scent lures the nose in closer. Medium sweet with honeysuckle, fruit juices and the creaminess of bread dough, the early palate takes a liking to the malts first.
As the flavors unfold on the middle palate, the honey crisp character softens and the grapes bring in its own elements of white plum, cider, agave and obvious grape. As the effervescence soon exhausts itself, the sweeter, maltier wine combinations play on the late palate with an oaken, tannin-laced balance rather than that of hop bitterness.
Quite one-dimensional in its grape and wine exploitation, the vinous beer tone is set in a spicy finish of brandy with a linger of sweetness that's nearly mead-like. Warm, spicy and sweet, I can seem this beer with mulled spices on those brisk holiday nights.
May 04, 2020Urban Artifact's flirtation with wine takes them to a burnish orange, rosy tinted fruit beer, decorated sparsely with tethers of foam. As Celebration Grapes soon falls still on the eye, its floral, tart, and musty sweet scent lures the nose in closer. Medium sweet with honeysuckle, fruit juices and the creaminess of bread dough, the early palate takes a liking to the malts first.
As the flavors unfold on the middle palate, the honey crisp character softens and the grapes bring in its own elements of white plum, cider, agave and obvious grape. As the effervescence soon exhausts itself, the sweeter, maltier wine combinations play on the late palate with an oaken, tannin-laced balance rather than that of hop bitterness.
Quite one-dimensional in its grape and wine exploitation, the vinous beer tone is set in a spicy finish of brandy with a linger of sweetness that's nearly mead-like. Warm, spicy and sweet, I can seem this beer with mulled spices on those brisk holiday nights.
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