20th Anniversary Brett Ale
Mammoth Brewing Company
- From:
- Mammoth Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- Brett Beer
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 8.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 27, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 17, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
This year's festival beer was brewed to celebrate 20 years of wild times at the Mammoth Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza. Our 20th anniversary specialty beer was fermented with three strains of Brettanomyces wild yeasts, then aged on apricots, elderflowers, and French oak. The wild character will develop more with age - as will some of us! Enjoy within two years.
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Reviewed by rand from California
3.99/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
22 oz bomber into a big wine glass
No reason to drink within two year. Popping this sucker open a full 5 years after bottling and it tastes great. The added apricot is still noticeable; and is retaining its tart snap. Oaky, a little funky, with some phenols apparent in the nose. Easy to drink at 6% ABV, nice work.
Nov 27, 2020No reason to drink within two year. Popping this sucker open a full 5 years after bottling and it tastes great. The added apricot is still noticeable; and is retaining its tart snap. Oaky, a little funky, with some phenols apparent in the nose. Easy to drink at 6% ABV, nice work.
Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania
4.08/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a bomber into a Dogfish Head tulip. 2015 'Bluesapalooza Brett Ale'
L: Clear light golden pour with thin fizzy white head. Nice ring of lacing.
S: Tart and funky... green fruit and grass.
T/F: Just like it smells. Tart and funky up front with some green fruit sweetness mid-swig. Apricot/peach and green apple peel. Oak, white wine, and floral elements. Light bodied.... sticky on the tongue. Well carbonated and more green fruit at the finish.
O: A delcious wild ale... easy drinking with great flavor/complexity.
Feb 26, 2019L: Clear light golden pour with thin fizzy white head. Nice ring of lacing.
S: Tart and funky... green fruit and grass.
T/F: Just like it smells. Tart and funky up front with some green fruit sweetness mid-swig. Apricot/peach and green apple peel. Oak, white wine, and floral elements. Light bodied.... sticky on the tongue. Well carbonated and more green fruit at the finish.
O: A delcious wild ale... easy drinking with great flavor/complexity.
Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California
4.32/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.32/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
2015 limited release.
Pours a murky golden-orange with a foamy beige head that settles to wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is slightly sour with apricot, floral, Brett, funk, and white wine aromas. Taste is much the same with apricot, floral, white wine, Brett, and funk flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of acidity on the palate with each sip. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a very good beer with a nice mix of ingredients that make this one super tasty and easy to drink.
Serving type: bottle.
Nov 07, 2015Pours a murky golden-orange with a foamy beige head that settles to wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is slightly sour with apricot, floral, Brett, funk, and white wine aromas. Taste is much the same with apricot, floral, white wine, Brett, and funk flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of acidity on the palate with each sip. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a very good beer with a nice mix of ingredients that make this one super tasty and easy to drink.
Serving type: bottle.
Reviewed by RBassSFHOPit2ME from California
4.59/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.59/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This is a damn fine Brett Ale. This one is all about subtleties. Everything is in its place and no flavor overwhelms or outshines the other.
Don't expect a puckering sour here, just a near perfect representation of a Brett infused beer.
In the nose and even better in the taste you get that Brett and barnyard hay, white wine, oak and the Apricots added are there juuuuust enough to add citrus you get in here in addition to a mild lemon flavor. Light, clean, crisp and effervescent mouthfeel, almost dry champaign like with just enough sweetness which really moves this beer along the palate and keeps you looking to take another sip.
I'd put this up against the likes of Orval & Russian River's Somoma Prides all day long and I think I prefer it actually to them all. Highly recommended and very, very well done. Mammoth has really cleaned things up and I've been blown away by them recently.
Biggest suggestion here is enjoying this near room temp. Makes quite a bit difference.
Cheers!
Oct 16, 2015Don't expect a puckering sour here, just a near perfect representation of a Brett infused beer.
In the nose and even better in the taste you get that Brett and barnyard hay, white wine, oak and the Apricots added are there juuuuust enough to add citrus you get in here in addition to a mild lemon flavor. Light, clean, crisp and effervescent mouthfeel, almost dry champaign like with just enough sweetness which really moves this beer along the palate and keeps you looking to take another sip.
I'd put this up against the likes of Orval & Russian River's Somoma Prides all day long and I think I prefer it actually to them all. Highly recommended and very, very well done. Mammoth has really cleaned things up and I've been blown away by them recently.
Biggest suggestion here is enjoying this near room temp. Makes quite a bit difference.
Cheers!
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