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Befuddlement
The Bruery
- From:
- The Bruery
- California, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
Ranked #87 - ABV:
- 9.9%
- Score:
- 96
Ranked #996 - Avg:
- 4.34 | pDev: 6.68%
- Reviews:
- 23
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 07, 2022
- Added:
- Jul 30, 2014
- Wants:
- 59
- Gots:
- 38
Hoarders Society exclusive blend of our Sour In The Rye and our bourbon barrel aged old-ale, Sucré, with the addition of an incredible number of boysenberries. This deep purple beer is textured with sweet notes of caramelized malts, spicy rye, oak, juicy berries and a pleasantly sour funk. It’s a rather befuddling meld of flavors with an outcome that we couldn’t enjoy more.
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Reviewed by Gatch from Massachusetts
4.47/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Bottled 12/08/16 and consumed 10/09/21! Almost five years old, pretty sweet. So much oaky, woody, earthy, funky character intact with a massive dark fruit flavor. It’s all rich berries with some wet wood in the finish. A delicious beer that hits heavy.
Oct 10, 2021Reviewed by SHODriver from North Carolina
4.5/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A: Poured into a Duvel tulip to a deep purpleish red which is topped by a dense and slightly rocky finger and a half of off white head which fades slowly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S: Smells of pleasant oak and sourness with some boysenberries and leather along with some hints of caramel
T: Taste is boysenberries up front with some toasted malts, caramel, leather, hints of funk, touch of furniture polish, and there's a nice underlying sourness thoughout. On the swallow there's some more funk, furniture polish, oak, boysenberries, caramel and lingering sourness.
M: This beer has a moderate amount of heft with a slightly creamy feel on the palate. Carbonation is effervescent and just slightly prickly while the beer has a drying finish due to the acidity.
O: Overall this is a really great beer. Fruited dark sours are not often seen and this beer does not disappoint. The beer has a really nice amount of complexity and has held up well despite being from 2014.
May 14, 2020S: Smells of pleasant oak and sourness with some boysenberries and leather along with some hints of caramel
T: Taste is boysenberries up front with some toasted malts, caramel, leather, hints of funk, touch of furniture polish, and there's a nice underlying sourness thoughout. On the swallow there's some more funk, furniture polish, oak, boysenberries, caramel and lingering sourness.
M: This beer has a moderate amount of heft with a slightly creamy feel on the palate. Carbonation is effervescent and just slightly prickly while the beer has a drying finish due to the acidity.
O: Overall this is a really great beer. Fruited dark sours are not often seen and this beer does not disappoint. The beer has a really nice amount of complexity and has held up well despite being from 2014.
Reviewed by gcamparone from Rhode Island
4.18/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2014 bottle. Poured from a 750mL bottle into a Bruery tulip glass.
Pours a muddy brown-cedar body with an off white 3 finger fizzy head that reduces to a good layer of retention.
Aromas are much like a Flanders red - sour lactic with vanilla and caramel, vinegar, rye, funk, light berry.
On the tongue are sweet and sour notes, upfront is sour cherry and lactic acidity, followed by sweet caramel, balsamic vinegar and fruits. Drying aftertaste. Low carbonation and medium body.
This was a nice change of pace. Good sourness and flavor, berries made an appearance. Reminded me of a Flanders Red.
Apr 14, 2018Pours a muddy brown-cedar body with an off white 3 finger fizzy head that reduces to a good layer of retention.
Aromas are much like a Flanders red - sour lactic with vanilla and caramel, vinegar, rye, funk, light berry.
On the tongue are sweet and sour notes, upfront is sour cherry and lactic acidity, followed by sweet caramel, balsamic vinegar and fruits. Drying aftertaste. Low carbonation and medium body.
This was a nice change of pace. Good sourness and flavor, berries made an appearance. Reminded me of a Flanders Red.
Reviewed by ECOBOOSTINST from Iowa
4.36/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
I tend to stay away from the soir series from The Bruery, but this brew is very tasty stuff...not much on the nose, but I get plenty of sweet red grape and oak from the barrel on the taste...
Jan 11, 2018Reviewed by thebeers from Pennsylvania
4.28/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.28/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Crazy color on this one: Pinkish-purplish red with two fingers of tan head. Sloppy sheets of lacing.
Sour, tart aroma with strong berry. Some oak. Way behind that there's some vanilla and maybe even bourbon.
Tart tasting with strong berry presence. Touch of cream. Touch of toffee and vanilla. Maybe a hint of rye spiciness. Definite wood. Has a Flanders-like finish: tannic acid, a little vinegar, some cherry.
Medium bodied with fairly strong carbonation.
A great wild ale with strong, jammy berries. There are only hints of the toffee, vanilla and bourbon behind. Fun sipper!
Nov 08, 2017Sour, tart aroma with strong berry. Some oak. Way behind that there's some vanilla and maybe even bourbon.
Tart tasting with strong berry presence. Touch of cream. Touch of toffee and vanilla. Maybe a hint of rye spiciness. Definite wood. Has a Flanders-like finish: tannic acid, a little vinegar, some cherry.
Medium bodied with fairly strong carbonation.
A great wild ale with strong, jammy berries. There are only hints of the toffee, vanilla and bourbon behind. Fun sipper!
Befuddlement from The Bruery
Beer rating:
96 out of
100 with
246 ratings
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