Pastiche
Fox Farm Brewery

 

Bottled 05.06.2022. 750ml corked and capped bottle served in a tulip. Pours a honey gold hue with a slight haze to the clarity and a loose, quarter inch, off-white head that quickly disperses into a tight band around the shoulders. Nose expresses notes of acetic acid and light stone fruit. Taste follows nose. I really don’t get much of the barrel in this. Mouthfeel is light in body with a bright, gassy carbonation and an assertive astringency. Overall, solid, but not my favorite wild from FF.

 

 

This one pours a slightly hazy pale orange color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.

This smells like dried apricot, super prickly and dank funk, cognac, tannic red wine, earthy vanilla, and oak.

This is fascinating, and pretty lambic-esque. There’s a dank, minerally, and dusty funk, with some pleasant peachy sweetness that helps balanced out that intense funk well. The cognac goes well with the peach giving of a really great balance of sweet and complex fruitiness along with a hefty acidity.

This is light bodied, and a slow sipper. It’s definitely something to take slowly and really dig through.

This is super complex and really one of my favorite wild ales that Fox Farm yet.

 

Pours an effervescent bright yellow with excellent clarity and plenty of fizzy, short-lived white head that receded to a ring of inconsistent size. Aroma is extremely strong, bursting out of the glass and clearly present from even 5 feet away. Unfortunately, I openly dislike the smell of this beer. I tend to like earthy funk both on the nose and the tongue, but this is beyond barnyard funk into barnyard #$%^.

Taste is unfortunately similar to the nose. Deep, deep funk. I can live with it, but the peaches, such as they exist, are not bright and fresh, but rather taste like they went bad. The brandy barrels may be there but they don't add to the experience. The feel is bright and lively, but overall, this beer just doesn't work for me. I believe this is the first spontaneous beer from Fox Farm that I haven't enjoyed.