Ambrosia
River Styx Brewing Company
- From:
- River Styx Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 03, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 22, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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A collaboration with our friends at Stormalong Hard Cider. This unique libation blends fresh apple cider with a raspberry sour fermented with house yeast and conditioned on crimson hibiscus.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Cathartes from Massachusetts
3.99/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
16 oz can acclimated to 48°F and poured into a teku.
Pours cloudy, a dull red color that appears pink but is really a dull red, some brown mixed through creates an earthy appearance. Spawns a 1/2 finger white head with larger bubbles, leaving no lacing, really it's like soda carbonation.
I caught a flash of green olive when pouring, but the initial aroma is strongly that of tart raspberry, bolstered by some natural fruit sweetness. I don't know how to put it other than saying it has a serene scent to it, it's like the smell of rain.
After agitating, the same scents remain, but a yeasty/dairy funk comes forward as well.
Initial taste before swallowing is surprisingly yeasty, something of a burlap bag taste? It tastes tan, a little scratchy, and while the concentration is high, the flavor is overall gentle. Raspberry is present, and perhaps light hops.
After swallowing it's first tart raspberry, plus a wine like dryness parallel to a yeastiness (which tasted the same as before), which grows in strength, lasting into the aftertaste where it becomes dry grassy. I notice hops in the middle, as well, they feel light and dry, and become more noticeable the more I drink. Raspberry and tartness remain through the entire process, but the raspberry becomes an ester/whiff later on. I did taste apple, as soon as I remembered it's a cider hybrid, not sure I would have noticed otherwise. It contains hibiscus, which went unnoticed.
I can't say much for the mouthfeel, unfortunately. It suffers from what a good deal of sours so, which is just feeling a lot like water. It does, however, seen to have more body(?) than others I've tried with the same issue.
Overall I like it, it's quite good. I often find acidic fruit in beer, as well as fruit sours in general are hard on my enamel, but I didn't find that here. It's got the element that feels the same but it didn't do it this time. Surprising, considering it contains hibiscus, which usually does it to me. Surprising amount of yeast which I found to pair very well with the raspberry. Additionally, well rounded and nicely blending flavors all around. It's a little mellow, in a pleasant spot on the mellow to intense scale. I like it.
I'd say I'd buy again but sadly the brewery is closing forever in just a week.
Oct 22, 2023Pours cloudy, a dull red color that appears pink but is really a dull red, some brown mixed through creates an earthy appearance. Spawns a 1/2 finger white head with larger bubbles, leaving no lacing, really it's like soda carbonation.
I caught a flash of green olive when pouring, but the initial aroma is strongly that of tart raspberry, bolstered by some natural fruit sweetness. I don't know how to put it other than saying it has a serene scent to it, it's like the smell of rain.
After agitating, the same scents remain, but a yeasty/dairy funk comes forward as well.
Initial taste before swallowing is surprisingly yeasty, something of a burlap bag taste? It tastes tan, a little scratchy, and while the concentration is high, the flavor is overall gentle. Raspberry is present, and perhaps light hops.
After swallowing it's first tart raspberry, plus a wine like dryness parallel to a yeastiness (which tasted the same as before), which grows in strength, lasting into the aftertaste where it becomes dry grassy. I notice hops in the middle, as well, they feel light and dry, and become more noticeable the more I drink. Raspberry and tartness remain through the entire process, but the raspberry becomes an ester/whiff later on. I did taste apple, as soon as I remembered it's a cider hybrid, not sure I would have noticed otherwise. It contains hibiscus, which went unnoticed.
I can't say much for the mouthfeel, unfortunately. It suffers from what a good deal of sours so, which is just feeling a lot like water. It does, however, seen to have more body(?) than others I've tried with the same issue.
Overall I like it, it's quite good. I often find acidic fruit in beer, as well as fruit sours in general are hard on my enamel, but I didn't find that here. It's got the element that feels the same but it didn't do it this time. Surprising, considering it contains hibiscus, which usually does it to me. Surprising amount of yeast which I found to pair very well with the raspberry. Additionally, well rounded and nicely blending flavors all around. It's a little mellow, in a pleasant spot on the mellow to intense scale. I like it.
I'd say I'd buy again but sadly the brewery is closing forever in just a week.
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