Pocket Dimension
Varietal Beer Company
- From:
- Varietal Beer Company
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- Brett Beer
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 3.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 06, 2023
- Added:
- Jul 15, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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We brewed this farmhouse al with Washington grow Purple Egyptian (TM) & Scots Bere (TM) heritage barley from Linc Malt. A long secondary fermentation on 350 pounds of rainier & bing cherries from Lighthouse Farms in Sunnyside, along with brettanomyces yeast produced the deep funk & tartness. Enjoy.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by snaotheus from Washington
3.86/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.86/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
2023-03-05
500ml bottle served in a little Georgetown sample glass. I don't see a date on it.
Pours clear, surprisingly purple in color, with an initial rush of carbonation that settles into very nearly zero head. There's a tiny bit of active carbonation. Smell is tart cherry and sweet grape juice. There's a tiny bit of earthy/oakiness.
Taste is almost soda-like, again with a combination of cherry and grape. Little tiny bit of the funk is there if you look for it. Tartness saves it from being too much like a soda.
Mouthfeel is medium to light, surprisingly effervescent. Overall...it's a tasty beverage, would benefit from dialing down the fruit and dialing up some of the earthiness and tartness.
Mar 06, 2023500ml bottle served in a little Georgetown sample glass. I don't see a date on it.
Pours clear, surprisingly purple in color, with an initial rush of carbonation that settles into very nearly zero head. There's a tiny bit of active carbonation. Smell is tart cherry and sweet grape juice. There's a tiny bit of earthy/oakiness.
Taste is almost soda-like, again with a combination of cherry and grape. Little tiny bit of the funk is there if you look for it. Tartness saves it from being too much like a soda.
Mouthfeel is medium to light, surprisingly effervescent. Overall...it's a tasty beverage, would benefit from dialing down the fruit and dialing up some of the earthiness and tartness.
Reviewed by kemoarps from Washington
4.12/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.12/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pour is an attractive vibrant maroon colour with a fizzy head that grows then ebbs leaving just stray bubbles here and there.
There's a lot of barnyard funk right off the bat, whose back end is mellowed a bit with a juicy berry sweetness. But that barnyard/horse blanket/all those cliche notes are clearly what lead the pack.
The flavour carries a lot more balance and subtlety. The cherry is the lead impression, starting with the sweet side of things, carrying through the tart side of cherries, which bridges it to that funkier barnyard brett. The funk is subdued by the creaminess of the cherries, which impart an almost vanilla-like finish, kind of like a cherry vanilla yogurt, really, with the fruit and the tart.
Body is surprisingly creamy, but only moderately sized. Sharp carbonation helps keep it from getting cloying, and really it doesn't have nearly the acidity I was expecting. Very minimal, in fact.
This is a nice change of pace from the preponderance of fruited sours that are tongue-peeling acid with fruit sweetness to bribe the other side (which don't get me wrong... I like that manifestation of fruited sours as well, when in the mood for it), this is nuanced and balanced and a refreshing take on things, and does a great job of drawing out the creamy side of the cherries.
Nov 12, 2020There's a lot of barnyard funk right off the bat, whose back end is mellowed a bit with a juicy berry sweetness. But that barnyard/horse blanket/all those cliche notes are clearly what lead the pack.
The flavour carries a lot more balance and subtlety. The cherry is the lead impression, starting with the sweet side of things, carrying through the tart side of cherries, which bridges it to that funkier barnyard brett. The funk is subdued by the creaminess of the cherries, which impart an almost vanilla-like finish, kind of like a cherry vanilla yogurt, really, with the fruit and the tart.
Body is surprisingly creamy, but only moderately sized. Sharp carbonation helps keep it from getting cloying, and really it doesn't have nearly the acidity I was expecting. Very minimal, in fact.
This is a nice change of pace from the preponderance of fruited sours that are tongue-peeling acid with fruit sweetness to bribe the other side (which don't get me wrong... I like that manifestation of fruited sours as well, when in the mood for it), this is nuanced and balanced and a refreshing take on things, and does a great job of drawing out the creamy side of the cherries.
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