Desert Revival with Raspberries
Bow & Arrow Brewing Co.
- From:
- Bow & Arrow Brewing Co.
- New Mexico, United States
- Style:
- Brett Beer
- ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 2.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 08, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 17, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Traditional sour ale spent over a year in oak wine barrels, then refermented on natural raspberry with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus to create a lively, fruity and tart desert elixir.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.73/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Depending on your opinion, this is the first substantive review of any detail of this beer (this is the raspberry edition) on BA.
Pours a color that has more red than pink in it, looks more like a cherry beer than a raspberry one. Doesn't hold much of a head on it, started out pink and about 1/3" but then had very little retention, quickly fell to just a film of head, but the color sure is pretty. The aroma is a raspberry lacto sour power.
Taste is an average amount of sour, the raspberries don't have the major drying effect they have in other beers, they do give more of a sweet impact than dry. The barrel gives plenty of brett notes, again, chewier, less dry than almost any raspberry beer that comes to mind. Sourness and acidity in check. Comes across a little bit wine barrel-y.
I enjoyed the beer, but I think its one of those hard to find and relatively expensive beers. Tough to pass up a 15 pack of Founders (or another big regional craft brewer) for the same price as this single bottle. Its a special occasion beer.
Jul 08, 2020Pours a color that has more red than pink in it, looks more like a cherry beer than a raspberry one. Doesn't hold much of a head on it, started out pink and about 1/3" but then had very little retention, quickly fell to just a film of head, but the color sure is pretty. The aroma is a raspberry lacto sour power.
Taste is an average amount of sour, the raspberries don't have the major drying effect they have in other beers, they do give more of a sweet impact than dry. The barrel gives plenty of brett notes, again, chewier, less dry than almost any raspberry beer that comes to mind. Sourness and acidity in check. Comes across a little bit wine barrel-y.
I enjoyed the beer, but I think its one of those hard to find and relatively expensive beers. Tough to pass up a 15 pack of Founders (or another big regional craft brewer) for the same price as this single bottle. Its a special occasion beer.
Reviewed by denver10 from New Mexico
3.94/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
As someone who is not much of a fan if fruited sour beers, this was one of the better ones I have tried. Seemed to get a more dessert like sweetness than tartness out of the raspberries.
Feb 17, 2019
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