Festival of Oak
Wild Mind Ales
- From:
- Wild Mind Ales
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.41 | pDev: 2.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 31, 2021
- Added:
- Dec 26, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Blend of barrel-aged and foeder-aged sour ales that underwent a secondary fermentation with dragonfruit and pineapple before being dry-hopped with Motueka hops. Tropical notes dominate the nose and palate with hints of funk and citrus on the finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MNAle from Minnesota
4.55/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.55/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
375ml bottle.
Satisfying "poof" as the cork is pulled, but no gushing.
Hazy amber-yellow below a fizzy stark white head. Lots of rising bubbles. The head has excellent retention, settling in at about 1/2 inch for quite a long time.
Tart aroma, funky, but not quite puckering sour. Pineapple, mangoes and oranges. Slight vinegar. A touch of floral.
Tartness hits immediately on the taste, but fades to a pleasant level. As with the aroma, far from puckering sour, in fact even less so. Very nice. The flavor is quite fruity - pineapple, mangoes, oranges, with just a bit of oak tannin adding to the mix. Slightly sweet to balance the tartness. Excellent, tasty, tart, and refreshing. The finish keeps the entire complexity of flavors, the fruits, the tartness, and the sweetness, lingering.
The mouth feel is quite tingly and refreshing.
Absolutely wonderful. This was the kind of beer Wild Mind started with, specializing in wild ales, foeder aged. While they have since broadened their portfolio (out of economic necessity, I suppose) they are nearly unsurpassed in the Twin Cities market with wild ales.
May 31, 2021Satisfying "poof" as the cork is pulled, but no gushing.
Hazy amber-yellow below a fizzy stark white head. Lots of rising bubbles. The head has excellent retention, settling in at about 1/2 inch for quite a long time.
Tart aroma, funky, but not quite puckering sour. Pineapple, mangoes and oranges. Slight vinegar. A touch of floral.
Tartness hits immediately on the taste, but fades to a pleasant level. As with the aroma, far from puckering sour, in fact even less so. Very nice. The flavor is quite fruity - pineapple, mangoes, oranges, with just a bit of oak tannin adding to the mix. Slightly sweet to balance the tartness. Excellent, tasty, tart, and refreshing. The finish keeps the entire complexity of flavors, the fruits, the tartness, and the sweetness, lingering.
The mouth feel is quite tingly and refreshing.
Absolutely wonderful. This was the kind of beer Wild Mind started with, specializing in wild ales, foeder aged. While they have since broadened their portfolio (out of economic necessity, I suppose) they are nearly unsurpassed in the Twin Cities market with wild ales.
Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland
4.39/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
500 ml bottle split with my brother at the brewery. Lots of complexity and depth of flavor with oak, tannins, leather, funk, and nice tropical notes from the dry-hopping. Really an amazing beer for the 5.6% abv.
Jul 14, 2020
Reviewed by Victory_Sabre1973 from Minnesota
4.47/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
2019 version.
This pours a beautiful red color. Tons of carbonation bubbles rising in the glass. 2 finger white/red head, that really lingers a long time. Very tiny bubbles. Very frothy. Some lacing on the glass.
The nose hit me as I popped the cork. It was wild and funky. Up close it's really nice and wild and funky, and tart. Floral. Just smells amazing.
Taste - This is damn interesting. There's so much here. It isn't as wild and funky as the nose let on. That being said, it still is wild and funky tasting. There's a bit of tartness. There's a bit of sweetness, but on the back side. Some fruitness to this beer - It's made with dragonfruit. To me it tastes like cherries, but I also have never had dragonfruit before, so I don't know what to expect. There's also a hint of pineapple in this beer, that it was also made with.
This beer has a lot of carbonation, and the bubbles tingle my throat. The tartness lingers in my throat. Decent body for the ABV.
If you like this style of beer, and I do, you will not go wrong at all with it.
Feb 16, 2020This pours a beautiful red color. Tons of carbonation bubbles rising in the glass. 2 finger white/red head, that really lingers a long time. Very tiny bubbles. Very frothy. Some lacing on the glass.
The nose hit me as I popped the cork. It was wild and funky. Up close it's really nice and wild and funky, and tart. Floral. Just smells amazing.
Taste - This is damn interesting. There's so much here. It isn't as wild and funky as the nose let on. That being said, it still is wild and funky tasting. There's a bit of tartness. There's a bit of sweetness, but on the back side. Some fruitness to this beer - It's made with dragonfruit. To me it tastes like cherries, but I also have never had dragonfruit before, so I don't know what to expect. There's also a hint of pineapple in this beer, that it was also made with.
This beer has a lot of carbonation, and the bubbles tingle my throat. The tartness lingers in my throat. Decent body for the ABV.
If you like this style of beer, and I do, you will not go wrong at all with it.
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