Silver Acres
More Brewing Co.
- From:
- More Brewing Co.
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 4.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 08, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 01, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.44/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.44/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
16 fl oz CAN courtesy of Katelynn & Vince - thanks! Canned 11/16/20. Label is green and yellow, depicting an old car on a windy road.
"Fruited sour ale with blueberry & elderberry." 6.5% ABV.
Served cold into a snifter.
APPEARANCE: Pours a deep beet purple body and a fizzy dark pink-purple head. Head is thin and weak, dying within a minute.
Appears well carbonated. It's certainly an eye-drawer of an appearance given its unusual colour, which helps promise a berry-emphatic brew.
AROMA: Tart berries, mild sourness, berry jam, powdered sugar, lactobacillus.
Doesn't seem too acidic or puckeringly sour, but it does lack microflora, more intricate bacteria indicating true spontaneous fermentation (acetobacter/pediococcus), wild yeast/lambicus yeast, and/or any barnyard aromatics or brettanomyces-redolent funkiness.
Aroma promises a juicy tart fruity ale but it doesn't evoke blueberry or elderberry specifically and lacks the finer sour ale components as noted above.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Has a lovely powdery soft cushion of a mouthfeel that harmonizes nicely with the mellow jammy fruit/berries and moderate tartness. It's not terribly sour (a mere 3-4/10 in terms of intensity I'd say) and all that sourness seems to come from lactobacillus.
No luck on any finer sour ale components indicative of true spontaneous fermentation...there's no acetobacter, pediococcus, oak/wood, microflora, or wild yeast/brettanomyces. This feels like a clinical stainless steel aged low cost sour ale, but the berry flavours are lovely even if they don't ring all that distinct...I'd never guess elderberry in a blind taste test but I'd probably guess blackberry or blueberry.
What does work is its even-keeled balance of sweetness and tartness, sourness and acidity, fruit and bacteria. It's a remarkably well balanced brew that feels cohesive in its build even if there's room for improvement.
Smooth, wet, somewhat refreshing, a bit smacky on the palate, twangy, mildly acidic, medium-bodied, and well carbonated.
OVERALL: One can imagine it going either jammier/sweeter (and why not age it in some jammy cabernet sauvignon barrels while we're at it?) or more rustic/funkier/more sour (and why not age it in virgin oak, cabernet sauvignon, or hell even port barrels while we're at it?) to better effect, but as is it's clinical/sterile in feel and More Brewing has stuck safely it seems to stainless steel aging with lactobacillus alone. They're not trying to rival the best Belgian fruited sour ales, and that's fine - but those of us keeping score know which beers are better.
If anything, I just want the berry flavours to be more vivid and evocative instead of blurring together in jammy sweet cacophony, but it's a drinkable enjoyable beer that delivers on its premise. I love its jammy-tart flavour profile and look forward to trying more complex sours from More Brewing.
High B- (3.44) / WORTHY
Jan 01, 2021"Fruited sour ale with blueberry & elderberry." 6.5% ABV.
Served cold into a snifter.
APPEARANCE: Pours a deep beet purple body and a fizzy dark pink-purple head. Head is thin and weak, dying within a minute.
Appears well carbonated. It's certainly an eye-drawer of an appearance given its unusual colour, which helps promise a berry-emphatic brew.
AROMA: Tart berries, mild sourness, berry jam, powdered sugar, lactobacillus.
Doesn't seem too acidic or puckeringly sour, but it does lack microflora, more intricate bacteria indicating true spontaneous fermentation (acetobacter/pediococcus), wild yeast/lambicus yeast, and/or any barnyard aromatics or brettanomyces-redolent funkiness.
Aroma promises a juicy tart fruity ale but it doesn't evoke blueberry or elderberry specifically and lacks the finer sour ale components as noted above.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Has a lovely powdery soft cushion of a mouthfeel that harmonizes nicely with the mellow jammy fruit/berries and moderate tartness. It's not terribly sour (a mere 3-4/10 in terms of intensity I'd say) and all that sourness seems to come from lactobacillus.
No luck on any finer sour ale components indicative of true spontaneous fermentation...there's no acetobacter, pediococcus, oak/wood, microflora, or wild yeast/brettanomyces. This feels like a clinical stainless steel aged low cost sour ale, but the berry flavours are lovely even if they don't ring all that distinct...I'd never guess elderberry in a blind taste test but I'd probably guess blackberry or blueberry.
What does work is its even-keeled balance of sweetness and tartness, sourness and acidity, fruit and bacteria. It's a remarkably well balanced brew that feels cohesive in its build even if there's room for improvement.
Smooth, wet, somewhat refreshing, a bit smacky on the palate, twangy, mildly acidic, medium-bodied, and well carbonated.
OVERALL: One can imagine it going either jammier/sweeter (and why not age it in some jammy cabernet sauvignon barrels while we're at it?) or more rustic/funkier/more sour (and why not age it in virgin oak, cabernet sauvignon, or hell even port barrels while we're at it?) to better effect, but as is it's clinical/sterile in feel and More Brewing has stuck safely it seems to stainless steel aging with lactobacillus alone. They're not trying to rival the best Belgian fruited sour ales, and that's fine - but those of us keeping score know which beers are better.
If anything, I just want the berry flavours to be more vivid and evocative instead of blurring together in jammy sweet cacophony, but it's a drinkable enjoyable beer that delivers on its premise. I love its jammy-tart flavour profile and look forward to trying more complex sours from More Brewing.
High B- (3.44) / WORTHY
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