Valley Beer Summer 2019
Hudson Valley Brewery

Bottled in Summer 2019; consumed on 8/6/21

Pours a slightly foggy, calmly effervescent burnt honey-gold body capped with a short-lived finger and a half of rocky, off-white foam fading spotty, paper-thin islands of cap, a moderate, frothy collar, and minimal lacing holding to the walls of the glass.

Aroma offers a clean lacto-funk with moldy bleu cheese and lemon curd peaks, maintaining as it embraces elements of dusty attic with tinges of hay/barn loft and nutty oak wine barrel; an evolving, pungent minerality edges the close.

Taste opens with a subtle veggie-lacto twang with developing notes of wet moss against composed mango at the forefront; a clean funk and rounded minerality is more pronounced over the mid-palate, imparting a level dispersion of lemon zest along with distant tinges of horse blanket, oak, and white wine grape must through the finish, where the mineralic tones become almost saline-laced with wisps of pungency.

Mouthfeel brings a light body paired with a moderate-full carbonation, levying a fluffy spritz evening to a taut grit over the mid-palate; a subtly progressive acidity develops an oily funk gliding across the back end to a lightly tart, semi-wet finish before drying into the swallow.

An almost nondescriptly clean initial approach opens to drastic shifts toward uniquely vegetal, funky expanses, layering barnyard and oak with a funky deception which at times works as a whole, and at others doesn't.

This one pours a light straw yellow color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This smells like peach, white wine, lemon, wild yeast, and some sort of herbal type aromas.

This is really great. Hudson Valley is not as known for their mixed culture bottles - they're rather more well known for their inventive (and sometimes weird) sour IPA creations. This has a great white wine dryness, with oak, lemon, funky wild yeast, and an almost herbal funk to it.

This is light bodied, crisp, and clean, with a pleasant and clean acidity to it.

It's hard to not enjoy something like this. I hope Hudson Valley keeps making stuff like this.

Tall bottle, capped and waxed, summer 2019 version, direct from the source in Beacon NY.

Lighter almond hued, minimal cap and just a hint of lacing left on the glass. Cloudy, nutty, yeasty final pour.

A hint of fruity tart on the sniff.

Complex, interesting, medium tart, with some wood, ripe stone fruits, earth, yeast, funky goodness....mighty fine creation...should have bought more of this nectar....