Come In Grape, Your Time Is Up [Zinfandel Edition]
Beachwood Blendery

Clear and lighter version of a red wine body with a white collar and lazy lacing. Red wine leads the nose with oak, rose petals, slight barrel must and funk, red grape, raspberry, and blackberry. Taste is one of the most vinous beers I have had where it does not verge in vinegar land, clean and pure, with great supporting oak, funk, must, grape fruit and skins, slight berries, muscat flavor dry cutting in, wild yeast and some minerality. Unlike any beer I have tasted before. Feel is clean, oak tannins driven with vinous, slightly tart, and funky layering, while being surprisingly clean.

 

beachwood is absolutely killing the wild ale game right now, some of the best and most authentic american made lambic types out there, and i look more and more forward to drinking their beer each time i have a new one. this totally took me by surprise, its one of the most grape driven beer/wine hybrids i have had, the fruit is powerful and intense and interesting in here, an early favorite beer of gabf week for me! its almost clear, somewhere between purple and blood red, almost beet root color, without a lot of head but good clarity and shine from the tap. it smells almost like tart wine at first, a ruby port character meeting a bacterial sourness, embraced by oak. tons of prune and blackberry and currant when i taste it, not overly sour as there is a lot of fruity sweetness here too, some minerals and tannins as well, and a tang from the grape skins it seems like too. big port wine and zinfandel structure too, but i never would have guessed this is as strong as it is listed here, it drinks easier than that for sure. beautiful grape character to this, and a really mature funk that i am starting to recognize in many beachwood beers, its just so fruity that all of the yeast character seems light. overall an enormously impressive beer, in a style i cant get enough of right now. i love what these guys are doing with their wild beers!