Un Chien Andalou
The Referend Bier Blendery

- From:
- The Referend Bier Blendery
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Lambic
- ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 1.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 22, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 08, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
A spontaneously fermented golden ale brewed in October of 2016 with pilsner malt grown in NJ and malted in PA, raw wheat, and five-year-old oxidized Sterling whole hops. Following a five hour boil and fifteen hours overnight in the coolship, the wort was racked to 25-year-old Oloroso sherry butts where it spontaneously fermented and aged for twenty-eight months prior to blending with NJ wildflower honey for refermentation in the bottle. Released after eighteen months in the bottle (Almost 4 years total production time.)
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by M-Fox24 from New Jersey
4.24/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
A: Decants to an orange shade of a used basketball, with brighter emissions to California poppies as sunlight transacts. The carafe alone is comparable to the Red Squirrel with Yam and Squash highlights that sway in parallels. In this situation, the body is tough on clarity, with a red sand opaqueness, yet mitigates an openness upon the duration of the stoneware’s repose, for careworn lucidity. Closely to body is a resting neckline that’s hued in eggshell, which is brief in prosperity before the apt abatement to the brimmed millimeters. Thus, a collar that’s brisk in preservation, yet succumbs to etching with pressured agitating, for probing aroma
S: Embarks on preset acidity, which shortly confines & grooms a path for imminent convolution. Markedly, earth grown funk, with a touch of oyster minerality atop pitted fruit and wild straw skeps. A sensibility for ethyl caproate to stroke aniseed over pineapples and red apples. Whilst, sweet drupes press on near ripe sticky peaches besides Gold Kist Apricots, with a resting parallel that inherits a walnut & pecan tart. Acidity remains a precursor for staging intervals, but that level eases in exhibition upon the timed drying. On this footing, brettanomyces begin webbing rabbit-y/barnyard funk amid cellar rust, while maintaining that wildflower honey to a stone fruit backing. There’s an oak construct ringing underneath along pressed aeriation, which augments the citrusy fruits to earthy schemes of machete-d grasslands. To this end, oaked contours are set to grainy farmyard stalls, as the barrel presence draws a rusticity to archery-bow staves. Subsequently, an openness supported by missioned procrastination, which defines Oloroso Sherry by a rotting attic sensibility that boots nutty mildew upon sagged leather. The dry convolutions continue their work towards advanced oxidation, alongside the distant cobwebs and fetid/run-down buckskin
T: An acrid sharpness, from brett-fruit byproducts, that’s backed by an emergent intuition for feedlot funk. The foretaste alludes assorted Frunas and Sweet Pops, as a backwoodsiness aids in the wet undertone rise. In steps to a further action, the cask element pieces a complexity for wild yeast to harp on woodland cedar, while phenols provide a sweet medicinal compound besides the clove linen and pepper brush-ups. Notations pursue the casings of apples alongside Marsh grapefruit, before Pholcidae succumb pear, lemon, and rhubarb. There’s mediated sweetness at midriff, with cut acidity that aids in the facet of raw honey & vanilla backdrops, while malt brings a touch of caramel nut to the bready forecourts. Simultaneous, a lactic stability with progression, as cellared characteristics attune that sweaty horse blanket stench thru wheat rusticity. Without exception, a growing sense for oaked forestry, and woodworking utensils that establish rust in the extended period of time. Such timing provides an uptick for farmhouse brass, which alludes Wild Boars to harvested Fungi and hummed Camembert cheese, as acerbity continually lessens in manifestation. Late ventilation slings toned Sherry with catacomb audacity near the dry autumnal settings
M: A mild effervescence with a low hop appeal, yet sharp elaboration to the light clean feel. The posture is prefaced with a bright (floral) knottiness that gets contracted in length, for a smoothness that frames a level of dry stability along the oak cultured tannins. Thus, a trek that evades caustic deterrents, while pursuing clean/secure convolution thru the evaporation and oxidation operation
O: Harmonious in exhibition with an agreeing bite that’s conducive to the interwoven funk. The approach is actively careful to the blends adaptation on wildflower honey, where the benefits nuzzle wild yeast, and enlighten raw wheat aside from the nut-bread malt
Nov 08, 2021S: Embarks on preset acidity, which shortly confines & grooms a path for imminent convolution. Markedly, earth grown funk, with a touch of oyster minerality atop pitted fruit and wild straw skeps. A sensibility for ethyl caproate to stroke aniseed over pineapples and red apples. Whilst, sweet drupes press on near ripe sticky peaches besides Gold Kist Apricots, with a resting parallel that inherits a walnut & pecan tart. Acidity remains a precursor for staging intervals, but that level eases in exhibition upon the timed drying. On this footing, brettanomyces begin webbing rabbit-y/barnyard funk amid cellar rust, while maintaining that wildflower honey to a stone fruit backing. There’s an oak construct ringing underneath along pressed aeriation, which augments the citrusy fruits to earthy schemes of machete-d grasslands. To this end, oaked contours are set to grainy farmyard stalls, as the barrel presence draws a rusticity to archery-bow staves. Subsequently, an openness supported by missioned procrastination, which defines Oloroso Sherry by a rotting attic sensibility that boots nutty mildew upon sagged leather. The dry convolutions continue their work towards advanced oxidation, alongside the distant cobwebs and fetid/run-down buckskin
T: An acrid sharpness, from brett-fruit byproducts, that’s backed by an emergent intuition for feedlot funk. The foretaste alludes assorted Frunas and Sweet Pops, as a backwoodsiness aids in the wet undertone rise. In steps to a further action, the cask element pieces a complexity for wild yeast to harp on woodland cedar, while phenols provide a sweet medicinal compound besides the clove linen and pepper brush-ups. Notations pursue the casings of apples alongside Marsh grapefruit, before Pholcidae succumb pear, lemon, and rhubarb. There’s mediated sweetness at midriff, with cut acidity that aids in the facet of raw honey & vanilla backdrops, while malt brings a touch of caramel nut to the bready forecourts. Simultaneous, a lactic stability with progression, as cellared characteristics attune that sweaty horse blanket stench thru wheat rusticity. Without exception, a growing sense for oaked forestry, and woodworking utensils that establish rust in the extended period of time. Such timing provides an uptick for farmhouse brass, which alludes Wild Boars to harvested Fungi and hummed Camembert cheese, as acerbity continually lessens in manifestation. Late ventilation slings toned Sherry with catacomb audacity near the dry autumnal settings
M: A mild effervescence with a low hop appeal, yet sharp elaboration to the light clean feel. The posture is prefaced with a bright (floral) knottiness that gets contracted in length, for a smoothness that frames a level of dry stability along the oak cultured tannins. Thus, a trek that evades caustic deterrents, while pursuing clean/secure convolution thru the evaporation and oxidation operation
O: Harmonious in exhibition with an agreeing bite that’s conducive to the interwoven funk. The approach is actively careful to the blends adaptation on wildflower honey, where the benefits nuzzle wild yeast, and enlighten raw wheat aside from the nut-bread malt
Reviewed by larryi86 from Delaware
4.44/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
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750 ml bottle poured into a flute
A- A hazy/murky golden copper with a two finger white head.
S- Sour, lemons, oak, some sherry, honey, funky, slightly herbal.
T- Sour, lemons, funk, touch of pears, oak, sherry, some honey, slightly herbal.
M- Smooth, crisp, light body.
O- A fantastic Lambic, great balance between sour, funk and oak. Honey is a wonderful touch.
Sep 12, 2020750 ml bottle poured into a flute
A- A hazy/murky golden copper with a two finger white head.
S- Sour, lemons, oak, some sherry, honey, funky, slightly herbal.
T- Sour, lemons, funk, touch of pears, oak, sherry, some honey, slightly herbal.
M- Smooth, crisp, light body.
O- A fantastic Lambic, great balance between sour, funk and oak. Honey is a wonderful touch.
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