Spontane: Passion Noix de Coco
Wild Mind Ales
- From:
- Wild Mind Ales
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.3 | pDev: 5.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 23, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 29, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Spontané: Passion Noix de Coco is a blend of 1 and 2 year old coolship beer that was refermented with passionfruit and conditioned on toasted coconut. Barrels were selected specifically for a fruitier brettanomyces character to complement the passionfruit, with the coconut rounding out the body and tying everything together. The finished blend is ripe with tropical fruit character, including notes of pineapple, papaya, and passionfruit, with a hint of coconut throughout the palate.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MNAle from Minnesota
4.05/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Aroma is fairly strongly tropical fruits, and not much else. Not even a hint of any tartness to come, in fact, it seems a bit sweet, which I expect is pretty much false advertising!
Only a slight haze is evident in the otherwise clear yellow-gold color, with very sparsely dispersed bubbles rising from time to time to a headless surface. What head there used to be was short, white, and fizzy, soft-drink like, and disappeared in the couple of seconds it took me to set the bottle down and snap a picture.
The flavor is nicely tart, pretty mildly so for a sour, but very flavorful. There is the fruits as promised in the smell, a nice mix of tropical fruit flavors, stone fruit, berry-like flavors and pineapple along with an apple-like taste and just enough coconut to know it is there. It is quite delicious, and the tartness/sourness is not overdone and provides a good balance. (Looking at the brewer's notes about this beer; IDK what a passion fruit tastes or smells like, and IDK where I'm getting things like peach and apple. Oh, well...)
Mouthfeel is dominated by the tartness. The body is relatively thin and otherwise flat.
Overall, I liked this. The tropical fruit flavors are excellent, complemented by the coconut, with a crisp/tart finish.
Jun 23, 2020Only a slight haze is evident in the otherwise clear yellow-gold color, with very sparsely dispersed bubbles rising from time to time to a headless surface. What head there used to be was short, white, and fizzy, soft-drink like, and disappeared in the couple of seconds it took me to set the bottle down and snap a picture.
The flavor is nicely tart, pretty mildly so for a sour, but very flavorful. There is the fruits as promised in the smell, a nice mix of tropical fruit flavors, stone fruit, berry-like flavors and pineapple along with an apple-like taste and just enough coconut to know it is there. It is quite delicious, and the tartness/sourness is not overdone and provides a good balance. (Looking at the brewer's notes about this beer; IDK what a passion fruit tastes or smells like, and IDK where I'm getting things like peach and apple. Oh, well...)
Mouthfeel is dominated by the tartness. The body is relatively thin and otherwise flat.
Overall, I liked this. The tropical fruit flavors are excellent, complemented by the coconut, with a crisp/tart finish.
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