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Wunderkammer Bier

Mixed culture taste but a tad thicker than the style. Bottle pour at Mondiale 2023. Worth trying if you can find fresh. Haven't heard much from these guys since.

 

 

 

First Wunderkammer I've had in a while and my first fruited beer from Vasilios. Always a pleasure to try one of his offerings. Pours a plum-hued body with decent clarity and a finger of off-white head with moderate pour. Some retention and lacing. Aromas are jammy raspberry/blackberry with some wheat tartness and funk coming through. Flavors are a bit tart, perhaps suggesting some refermentation in the bottle, but are rounded out by a bretty funkiness and aspirin-like bitterness. The fruit is there but bone dry. Crisp and effervescent. Great companion to a summer meal outdoors.

85/100

Poured from the 2022 dated, 500 ml bottle into the test glass
A - Ruby colored backdrop, with a slightly pink shaded frothy cap. The cap seems everlasting.
S - As advertised red raspberry, a bit stronger than the blackberry, mixed culture adds complexity with some peppery notes
possibly helped by he use of some rye.
T - Both the fruits are in balance, again a slight peppery thread in there. All the flavors ride on a carpet of slighty acidic funk
M - Start is tart, mid rounds out a bit, the carbonation adds a rounding, fluffy element. Finish is fruity and ashen dry.
O - An absolute delight, fruit forward, with excellent texture.

500 ml. bottle.
Brewed March 2022.
Bottled Nov 2022.
Released early last week.

Gentle to moderate pour yields a nearly one inch very light pink head
over a dark pink, almost red (maybe magenta?) head with sticky lacing.

Very fruity nose of raspberry and cherry, with a bit less cherry.

Taste mirrors nose closely with a fairly robust sourness, but still very tasty indeed.

Very nice mouthfeel and well carbonated.

Overall, yet another Wunderkammer offering to be on the lookout for!

Cheers!