Filmishmish
Bruery Terreux

2015 vintage. Poured from a bomber into a Dogfish Head tulip

L: Cloudy honey/amber pour with a finger of fizzy white head. Falls fast... minimal lacing.

S: Tart, funky, and fruity. Apricots and oak.

T/F: Sweet/tart with loads of peach/apricot. Moderate acidity... lots of funk and oak. Some spice and more green fruit. Well carbonated... medium bodied. Complex... more apricot and oak to finish.

O: An outstanding tart barrel-aged wild ale. The apricots and funk are front and center... enough acidity to be a 'sour' completely destroying your palate. Held up fantastically in the cellar.

750ml bottled 12/8/15, consumed on 7/6/21. This is a special beer with a serious amount of funk. The base beer is clearly fantastic and only improves with apricots.

 

 

 

Reviewed from notes. Poured from a 750 mL bottle. I didn't make a note of the style of glassware used.

A: Pours a hazy bright gold, with a thin white head that fades quickly. Quite a bit of small bubble carbonation runs up the sides of the glass.

S: Big lactic tart and apricot-y stone fruits. Lactobacillus funk, mild vanilla, and cracker malts. A bit of floral bouquet. I don't get much Brettanomyces on the nose.

T: Lactic acid, tart and sour. Big flavor of tart apricots. A moderate citric acid and a mild acetic acid presence also. Some white wine vinous character and a mild sweetness from the cracker malts. There’s a bit of feet-forward funk as well, but the lactic acid dominates. This finishes bone dry with oak tannins lingering –after the the swallow is the only place I get the oak – with more apricots.

M: Light body, low alcohol presence. Carbonation sensation on the low side, but the dryness and acidity keep it interesting.

O: Quite acidic, and without the depth of funk and barnyard that, say, a Cantillon would typically have. But this does have every bit of the juicy apricot flavors. A nice beer, but nothing I could drink all night with the acidity level.

 

 

Hazy golden bronze.

Smells of jammy apricot.

A lot of sour and a rich fruit finish. It's good.

Medium carbonation.

Maybe tone down the sour. This is an older bottle so would like to try fresh. Regardless first rate brew.

Bright golden yellow in color. Hazy in appearance. Sour! Lol. Acetic acid, simple golden sour, apricot, unripe peach. A wisp of a malt backbone. Solid.

 

 

Hazy, vibrant light orange color with less than a finger of white head that's pretty quick to dissipate into a thin crown that leaves short-lived sheets of lacing.

Sour aroma with strong apricot and light oak. The taste follows the nose, with a slight creaminess in the aftertaste.

Medium bodied with a touch of creaminess to the feel and solid carbonation.

Delicious and exactly as advertised.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice hot day. need to crack some mish.

I can't believe I havnt rated this, I can't believe this is only a 92. from everything from the bruery this is their greatest sour, by far.
looks great in the glass. nose is fantastic, like your biting into an apricot, rea nice funk on the nose
taste is stellar, this is the real show. one of the few American wild ales that can capture that mushroom funk drei/cantillon have in their gueze. great funk with that apricot right in center stage.
overall this is THE sour to try if your heckling out the bruery, one one of the few bruery beers I buy up heavy on. it's very under appreciated so do yourself a favor and trade for some if you'd like to taste a real fruited American gueze

this one is very under appreciated and one I'd like to blind test with the big boys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is really great. It is very tart, and as a result the stone fruit does tend to get lost in the mix. I really enjoyed it, but I wish I would have gotten more fruit.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to alefish for this 750ML bottle that showed up on my doorstep Wednesday. Bottle dated 1/9/14, so it’s been lying around long enough. Split with my wife.

The pour looks like pureed life vest that’s been left out in the sun for one season too long. The nose is great. Tart apricot, lightly sugared apples, wood. Simple & really, really nice.

Flimishmish is my kind of sour. Not sour - tart. The apricots take some of that tame edge off the beer & brings the jam…I love jam. I probably eat it five times a week, at least. Rustic woodiness, slight citric bitterness. Clean. So clean, so drinkable. One of the few sours I think I could have a second glass of.

Simple, direct, beautiful, this is an excellent beer.