Barrel Aged Featuring Sour
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 1.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 13, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - soured using 'Roeselare blend' (whatever that means), and nearly a year spent in Avery Creek Merlot barrels. Do they mean Averill Creek? Because Avery Creek winery doesn't appear to be a thing.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy ecru head, which leaves some defrosting back windshield lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of red wine vinegar, gritty and grainy caramel malt, damp oak, a bit of musty yeastiness, further Sherry flor notes, and some ethereal leafy and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, balsamic vinegar, semi-sweet grape juice, some vanilla-forward woodiness, gently estery yeast, and a still hard to pinpoint earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly subtle in its laid-back frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and more or less smooth, once you get acclimatized to the soft sourness at work here. It finishes off-dry, the woody vinegar mixed with caramel character still a going concern.
Overall - this is a pretty decent version of the style, with the sour red wine essences really coming through. Not too tart, or like chewing on a dead tree branch, and reasonably priced for what it is. Worth checking out, even if they should hire a new proof-reader for their labels (not Big Rock's!).
Nov 17, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy ecru head, which leaves some defrosting back windshield lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of red wine vinegar, gritty and grainy caramel malt, damp oak, a bit of musty yeastiness, further Sherry flor notes, and some ethereal leafy and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, balsamic vinegar, semi-sweet grape juice, some vanilla-forward woodiness, gently estery yeast, and a still hard to pinpoint earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly subtle in its laid-back frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and more or less smooth, once you get acclimatized to the soft sourness at work here. It finishes off-dry, the woody vinegar mixed with caramel character still a going concern.
Overall - this is a pretty decent version of the style, with the sour red wine essences really coming through. Not too tart, or like chewing on a dead tree branch, and reasonably priced for what it is. Worth checking out, even if they should hire a new proof-reader for their labels (not Big Rock's!).
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