Top Tier Trifle
Southern Grist Brewing Co.
- From:
- Southern Grist Brewing Co.
- Tennessee, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.33 | pDev: 6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 06, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 25, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by DucksFan16 from Tennessee
4.54/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.54/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Canned on 08/18/2021. Enjoyed on 11/04/2021.
Nov 04, 2021
Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
4.31/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
16 oz can, dated 8/18/21, into Ghost In The Machine Teku.
Pours a deep, saturated dark purple, with a creamy bubble gum pink head of 2 fingers that fizzles within about 20 seconds to a thin bubbly ring.
Aroma of mulberries and marshmallows, with secondary notes of boysenberry and plum skin. A very tiny bit of graham and vanilla can be sampled behind that.
Flavor is berry and berry juice forward, tasting almost like straight blueberry juice or a blueberry jam of some sort. Polite flecks of vanilla/marshmallow and white chocolate hide behind the berry juice assault, and it finishes with a light dusting of graham cracker and more berry. Sour culture and sour berry juice returns at the very back of the palate. The white chocolate is a "sour/twisty" kind much like they had in their White Chocolate Strawberry Hill. As it warms it takes on a canned Cabernet vibe. The dustiness and tartness of these more uncommonly used berries is present - the mulberry and huckleberry respectively. Interesting choice, there must have been a local crop.
Edit : the second can is INCREDIBLE. WAVES of white chocolate and incredible earthy and tart berries. This is like a white chocolate berry torte. Am getting a bit of alcohol/ethanol with this can. Still, WOW. Scores adjusted.
Feel is slick and wet, with busy carbonation that stings the tongue. The alcohol is definitely present, but this beer drinks far smoother than it should for 9%, and after having finished half the can within 5 minutes already, I can say it's pretty dangerous.
Overall, this was another "on the fence" beer for me, it's definitely not the caliber of what I've had from SG in the last year or so. This last haul (two boxes, a case in each box) has been pretty disenchanting so far, but not to the point of total regret...just less than I expected, I guess.
This is a tasty, sticky berry treat with some added angle and sweetness from the adjuncts used. It's pretty good but not mind-blowing, and not on par with their better ones. Quite overpriced for what you get here, IMO. Buy one can to try.
Scores adjusted. It's safe to buy a 4 pack, reader. I must have not been ready for that first can. Only complaint is that it's imperial, and imperial SG sours are never as good as standard gravity ones. FYI.
$22 / 4 pack / southerngrist.com
Sep 21, 2021Pours a deep, saturated dark purple, with a creamy bubble gum pink head of 2 fingers that fizzles within about 20 seconds to a thin bubbly ring.
Aroma of mulberries and marshmallows, with secondary notes of boysenberry and plum skin. A very tiny bit of graham and vanilla can be sampled behind that.
Flavor is berry and berry juice forward, tasting almost like straight blueberry juice or a blueberry jam of some sort. Polite flecks of vanilla/marshmallow and white chocolate hide behind the berry juice assault, and it finishes with a light dusting of graham cracker and more berry. Sour culture and sour berry juice returns at the very back of the palate. The white chocolate is a "sour/twisty" kind much like they had in their White Chocolate Strawberry Hill. As it warms it takes on a canned Cabernet vibe. The dustiness and tartness of these more uncommonly used berries is present - the mulberry and huckleberry respectively. Interesting choice, there must have been a local crop.
Edit : the second can is INCREDIBLE. WAVES of white chocolate and incredible earthy and tart berries. This is like a white chocolate berry torte. Am getting a bit of alcohol/ethanol with this can. Still, WOW. Scores adjusted.
Feel is slick and wet, with busy carbonation that stings the tongue. The alcohol is definitely present, but this beer drinks far smoother than it should for 9%, and after having finished half the can within 5 minutes already, I can say it's pretty dangerous.
Overall, this was another "on the fence" beer for me, it's definitely not the caliber of what I've had from SG in the last year or so. This last haul (two boxes, a case in each box) has been pretty disenchanting so far, but not to the point of total regret...just less than I expected, I guess.
This is a tasty, sticky berry treat with some added angle and sweetness from the adjuncts used. It's pretty good but not mind-blowing, and not on par with their better ones. Quite overpriced for what you get here, IMO. Buy one can to try.
Scores adjusted. It's safe to buy a 4 pack, reader. I must have not been ready for that first can. Only complaint is that it's imperial, and imperial SG sours are never as good as standard gravity ones. FYI.
$22 / 4 pack / southerngrist.com
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