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Sapwood Cellars Brewery
- From:
- Sapwood Cellars Brewery
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- French Bière de Garde
- ABV:
- 8.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.21 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 10, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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In the fall of 2020 Stephen from Homaide Brewing visited us before he opened to brew a classic clean Biere de Garde. We diverted enough to refill one of our favorite oak wine barrels. We gave the resident cultures two years to work, and then he returned to help us find the barrel’s soulmate, an even older Dubbel aged in a Bourbon barrel. The result is tart, malty, leathery, with notes of oaky vanilla.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BJB13 from Maryland
4.21/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
10 ounce draft pour at the brewery.
Served in a tapered wine glass.
Small off-white foamy cap clings to the glass for life as it recedes to a ring. The body is hazy chestnut brown.
Robust aroma of red wine barrel, I think, definitely heavy on oak tannins. Tasting tart, but malty. Wine barrel character is strong but doesn’t impart a vinous flavor, plenty of oak, dried red fruit, sour dough and to a lesser degree caramel and raisin. Finish drys almost to a pucker. The body is in the neighborhood of medium weight but the dry effervescent finish lightens the overall impression. It becomes a bit frothy as it warms. The alcohol aroma, taste and feel is well hidden.
This is a sipper. But that is coming from one who doesn’t have a palate for sour or overly tart beers making this one manageable, but a bit of a challenge for me ( I watched another patron down one of these in a third of the time it took me). It is very interesting and it seems a good deal of time and labor went into this.
Feb 10, 2023Served in a tapered wine glass.
Small off-white foamy cap clings to the glass for life as it recedes to a ring. The body is hazy chestnut brown.
Robust aroma of red wine barrel, I think, definitely heavy on oak tannins. Tasting tart, but malty. Wine barrel character is strong but doesn’t impart a vinous flavor, plenty of oak, dried red fruit, sour dough and to a lesser degree caramel and raisin. Finish drys almost to a pucker. The body is in the neighborhood of medium weight but the dry effervescent finish lightens the overall impression. It becomes a bit frothy as it warms. The alcohol aroma, taste and feel is well hidden.
This is a sipper. But that is coming from one who doesn’t have a palate for sour or overly tart beers making this one manageable, but a bit of a challenge for me ( I watched another patron down one of these in a third of the time it took me). It is very interesting and it seems a good deal of time and labor went into this.
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