Laps De Temps: Second Anniversary Blend
White Rooster Farmhouse Brewery

White Rooster Farmhouse Brewery

Laps de Temps (Second Anniversary Blend Spring 2019) w/ Apricots, Plums and Blackberries

Look: The plum and blackberry drive the color of this beer. Bright crimson with some magenta mixed in. Opaque. A white, loosely packed head immediately disappears. A lively beer with lots of bubbles streaming up. A gorgeous color.

Smell: All of the fruits come through, but the aroma is dominated by the apricot and plum. Dripping with juice. Some sweet jammy notes and a lot lemon juice acidity and vinegar. A moderate basement must and a dry grainy / crackery / wheat-like aroma. A powdery floral aroma too.

Taste: Sweet plum and blackberry jamon the tip of tongue. As the beer washes over my palate this sweetness quickly shifts too
fresh, tart, blackberry with lemon juice acidity. The must comes through on the flavor as well, as does the dry, crackery, wheat-like flavor.

Feel: Medium level of carbonation. Semi-dry and a bit gritty with a rather full mouthfeel. Lingering dryness.

Overall: I think this fruited sour is really nice. I really wanted to try White Rooster for the first time. At first I thought it was very good, but nothing special. I actually enjoyed drinking the beer more and found additional complexity previously lacking as the beer warmed up. The musty and floral aroma began to shine through. And what at first drank like a rather one dimensional beer with fruity acidity took on a nice dry, crackery finish. Really well done.

Cheers, NBS!

Cloudy violet ruby body with a ring of white bubbles, brief lacing. Smell features raspberry, apricot, plum, blackberry, flowers, with a fruity finish of sour oak tartness and kool aid sweetness. Taste is very fruity, kind of like a sour sangria, apricot brings bright tartness, plum dark sweetness, and blackberry middle tartness, with supporting raspberry, peach, clementine, funk, and oak. Little on the sweeter side. Feel is tart, acidic, frothy, and thick for a wild ale.