Full Contact: Apricot
Kings County Brewers Collective (KCBC)
- From:
- Kings County Brewers Collective (KCBC)
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.57 | pDev: 16.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 23, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 19, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Amber Sour with rye and oats, aged in red wine barrels with apricot
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by SpeedwayJim from New York
2.65/5 rDev -25.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.65/5 rDev -25.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
375ml capped bottle into Night Shift stemware. Shared by schen9303.
Nose has a big dose of sulfur in it that dissipates gradually with time. It doesn't exactly complement the rip apricot meat and pit and sweet vinegar. Beer opens puckeringly sour. I get overripe apricot, vinegar, apricot pit and some brown sugar. A touch of butteriness in the middle and more acidity on the lingering finish. Body is light to medium with ample carbonation. Foamy on the palate and puckering and messy going down.
This one's a big miss for me. Just overwhelmingly sour with little fruit character to balance it out. The sulfur on the nose and diacetyl on the palate doesn't help.
Nov 23, 2017Nose has a big dose of sulfur in it that dissipates gradually with time. It doesn't exactly complement the rip apricot meat and pit and sweet vinegar. Beer opens puckeringly sour. I get overripe apricot, vinegar, apricot pit and some brown sugar. A touch of butteriness in the middle and more acidity on the lingering finish. Body is light to medium with ample carbonation. Foamy on the palate and puckering and messy going down.
This one's a big miss for me. Just overwhelmingly sour with little fruit character to balance it out. The sulfur on the nose and diacetyl on the palate doesn't help.
Reviewed by JerzDevl2000 from New Jersey
3.88/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Picked this up at the brewery recently during KCBC's release for their one year anniversary. I liked the raspberry version a lot and like that, this had a great label that made me laugh. The liquid on the inside was a bit tougher to enjoy - not that wasn't brewed nicely or was unique, but the red wine and apricot didn't quite mesh 100% together. The end result was brew that took a while to finish off as I gave it a chance to warm up and (hopefully) grow on me...
Quite a dark and murky hue to this pour as the brown color of this beer was muted and mixed in with apricot, almost taking on a ruddy and wooded appearance. Tons of funk, red wine aged in barrels, apricot, wetness, and earthiness in the nose that was quiet but extremely odd and unlike anything I ever whiffed from a beer before! The taste was like that in terms of the uniqueness - funky, yeasty, earthy, with red wine, barrel-aging, apricot, raspberry tartness, fruit skin, and stone fruit juice to top it off. Complex but not coherent, this was a beer that took a while to discern and decipher while never seeming to full reach it's potential. Even with the sediment at the bottom in the mix, this was still too wild, woody, and funky to full connect with me but it had me wanting more after every sip regardless.
Thankfully, the alcohol was light and so was the mouthfeel as there was plenty of carbonation here to keep things from getting too heavy. The red wine stuck around the longest, which may have been the least enjoyable aspect of this beer. Hard to say that I've had anything quite like this but I probably wouldn't reach for it again if given a choice. Worth a go once just to see how much KCBC and other brewers are pushing the envelope, even if the end result needed a bit of tweaking!
Sep 20, 2017Quite a dark and murky hue to this pour as the brown color of this beer was muted and mixed in with apricot, almost taking on a ruddy and wooded appearance. Tons of funk, red wine aged in barrels, apricot, wetness, and earthiness in the nose that was quiet but extremely odd and unlike anything I ever whiffed from a beer before! The taste was like that in terms of the uniqueness - funky, yeasty, earthy, with red wine, barrel-aging, apricot, raspberry tartness, fruit skin, and stone fruit juice to top it off. Complex but not coherent, this was a beer that took a while to discern and decipher while never seeming to full reach it's potential. Even with the sediment at the bottom in the mix, this was still too wild, woody, and funky to full connect with me but it had me wanting more after every sip regardless.
Thankfully, the alcohol was light and so was the mouthfeel as there was plenty of carbonation here to keep things from getting too heavy. The red wine stuck around the longest, which may have been the least enjoyable aspect of this beer. Hard to say that I've had anything quite like this but I probably wouldn't reach for it again if given a choice. Worth a go once just to see how much KCBC and other brewers are pushing the envelope, even if the end result needed a bit of tweaking!
Reviewed by avas from New York
4.24/5 rDev +18.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +18.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Dark, like apricot juice mixed with amber beer and a splash of red wine... Not that those ingredients are actually the reason for the hue. Pretty opaque, with only a thin finger of light orange-tinted white head that fades quickly.
S: Quite funky and barnyard-forward. Hay, wet socks, musty grass. As it warms, I get more rye spice stinging the nostrils as well as a distinct stone fruit skin note--I can almost feel the fuzz of rub against my nostrils based on my sense association. Oak is definitely there too. Smells like it's going to be pretty tart. But even as it warms, funk is at the front of this one, unapologetically so.
T: (Somewhat) follows the nose, but definitely more harmonious in the way it fuses its components on the taste. Strong funk presence, but behind a big contribution of flavor from the apricot adjunct and base beer. Tart apricot flesh, apricot skin, Meyer lemon juice, sweet bready malt, light peppercorn-esque spice, and a hefty dose of dry oak on the finish. Funk underlies throughout the taste (less assertive as it warms, succumbing to the apricot and oak), but it's less barnyard-y and more licking-an-overripe-fruit-skin funky. Like getting some flavors you don't expect from a dirty farmer's market apricot. Barrel contributes tannic dryness, a little vanillin--not much red wine flavor comes through.
M: Really nice mouthfeel, likely thanks to the oats. Oat flavor isn't very forward, but the feel is medium-plus, and the carbonation is spot-on for the style (soft and even, neither prickly or imbalanced). Pretty sweet given ABV, but it works to balance out a lot of tartness. Acidity builds after a few sips--not necessarily a beer I could drink too much of.
O: Very good beer and one that could come from one of the 'bigger' sour breweries out there with a much bigger name than KCBC. I've been impressed by the sours I've had from them, but this one really demonstrates what they're capable of when they fuse a bunch of components. Everything works together pretty well here, and while the execution isn't perfect (I'd like more fruit in the nose and less acidity in the mouth), there's nothing wrong with what I'm drinking now. Makes me excited for what's cooking in the rest of those barrels in the taproom!
Sep 08, 2017S: Quite funky and barnyard-forward. Hay, wet socks, musty grass. As it warms, I get more rye spice stinging the nostrils as well as a distinct stone fruit skin note--I can almost feel the fuzz of rub against my nostrils based on my sense association. Oak is definitely there too. Smells like it's going to be pretty tart. But even as it warms, funk is at the front of this one, unapologetically so.
T: (Somewhat) follows the nose, but definitely more harmonious in the way it fuses its components on the taste. Strong funk presence, but behind a big contribution of flavor from the apricot adjunct and base beer. Tart apricot flesh, apricot skin, Meyer lemon juice, sweet bready malt, light peppercorn-esque spice, and a hefty dose of dry oak on the finish. Funk underlies throughout the taste (less assertive as it warms, succumbing to the apricot and oak), but it's less barnyard-y and more licking-an-overripe-fruit-skin funky. Like getting some flavors you don't expect from a dirty farmer's market apricot. Barrel contributes tannic dryness, a little vanillin--not much red wine flavor comes through.
M: Really nice mouthfeel, likely thanks to the oats. Oat flavor isn't very forward, but the feel is medium-plus, and the carbonation is spot-on for the style (soft and even, neither prickly or imbalanced). Pretty sweet given ABV, but it works to balance out a lot of tartness. Acidity builds after a few sips--not necessarily a beer I could drink too much of.
O: Very good beer and one that could come from one of the 'bigger' sour breweries out there with a much bigger name than KCBC. I've been impressed by the sours I've had from them, but this one really demonstrates what they're capable of when they fuse a bunch of components. Everything works together pretty well here, and while the execution isn't perfect (I'd like more fruit in the nose and less acidity in the mouth), there's nothing wrong with what I'm drinking now. Makes me excited for what's cooking in the rest of those barrels in the taproom!
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