Love at First Sting
Oliver Brewing Company
- From:
- Oliver Brewing Company
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.91 | pDev: 4.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 02, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 09, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Created in collaboration with Charm CIty Meadworks, this kettle sour is brewed with desert mesquite honey and fermented with passion fruit for a perfect balance between sour and sweet.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.72/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
I'm back from my break in/on New Oliver Beers Sunday (Week 771)! Not only does today help in the furtherance of The CANQuest (tm), but it also leads into a massive purge of/from my kitchen reefer. I hope to make some real inroads over the course of the day.
From the CAN: "Pasion Fruit Kettle Sour Ale"; "Pucker Up"; "Brewed in collaboration with Charm City Meadworks, this kettle sour is brewed with desert mesquite honey and fermented with passionfruit for a perfect balance between sour and sweet."; "Oliver Brewing Co. has been proudly brewing craft beer in Baltimore, MD since 1993."
How interesting! I do not believe that I realized that it was a collab when I bought it. The ex-Old Lady is both an apiarist & meaderist & while we have gone our separate ways, I still dig mead. This held real potential to be memorable.
I Crack!ed open the vent to begin a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. This turned out to be the right course of aCANtion since it not only formed two-plus fingers of burbling, fizzy, foamy, bone-white head with modest retention, but I also maintained its clarity. It was a gorgeous Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7), the color of honey, with NE-quality clarity! This prompted CANother impromptu visit from The Gelt Gang of Midas, Mammon & Croesus, all clamoring for a taste. Nose was light, really innocuous with just a hint of a light tartness and a scent of honey. Hmm. Mouthfeel was kind of thin and watery. The taste was lightly tart, very approachable, with that same hint of honey that I noted on the nose. Warming, I also got a light tropical fruitiness, but it could have been any of the usual suspects, not necessarily passion fruit. Hmm. Finish was lightly tart, very refreshing with a lingering honey & tropical fruit taste that lasted well after the swallow. Not bad, but one was satiating. YMMV.
Dec 02, 2019From the CAN: "Pasion Fruit Kettle Sour Ale"; "Pucker Up"; "Brewed in collaboration with Charm City Meadworks, this kettle sour is brewed with desert mesquite honey and fermented with passionfruit for a perfect balance between sour and sweet."; "Oliver Brewing Co. has been proudly brewing craft beer in Baltimore, MD since 1993."
How interesting! I do not believe that I realized that it was a collab when I bought it. The ex-Old Lady is both an apiarist & meaderist & while we have gone our separate ways, I still dig mead. This held real potential to be memorable.
I Crack!ed open the vent to begin a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. This turned out to be the right course of aCANtion since it not only formed two-plus fingers of burbling, fizzy, foamy, bone-white head with modest retention, but I also maintained its clarity. It was a gorgeous Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7), the color of honey, with NE-quality clarity! This prompted CANother impromptu visit from The Gelt Gang of Midas, Mammon & Croesus, all clamoring for a taste. Nose was light, really innocuous with just a hint of a light tartness and a scent of honey. Hmm. Mouthfeel was kind of thin and watery. The taste was lightly tart, very approachable, with that same hint of honey that I noted on the nose. Warming, I also got a light tropical fruitiness, but it could have been any of the usual suspects, not necessarily passion fruit. Hmm. Finish was lightly tart, very refreshing with a lingering honey & tropical fruit taste that lasted well after the swallow. Not bad, but one was satiating. YMMV.
Reviewed by Hopfenpeter from Maryland
3.89/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Usually I am not a fan of Sours. This one might be the exception! Very balanced sour with a hint of Cranberry, yet not overwhelming in sour notes. Great Beer!
Apr 16, 2018
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