Walnut Caramel Apple Sour
A Homestead Brew
- From:
- A Homestead Brew
- South Dakota, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.41 | pDev: 1.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 12, 2020
- Added:
- Apr 23, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by bbtkd from South Dakota
3.38/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.38/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
A Homestead Brew Walnut Caramel Apple Sour, 5.5% ABV. Pours slightly hazy orange with a four finger white head that left foamy lacing. Nose is funk and apple. Taste is apple and nuts, slight sweetness, moderate to heavy sour. Good mouthfeel, overall good. Perhaps too sour - could have been good if they cranked up the apple too. I see what @The-Adjunct-Hippie means about the metallic aftertaste, not pleasant. Thinking I won't make it through this one.
Jun 03, 2020
Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
3.36/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.36/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
16 oz can poured into Crane snifter.
This overcarbonated can says it would be a caramel-copper color but I get more of a blonde color with a massive over-carbonated head 75% of the snifter, that gradually dies to a thin ring leaving spotty lacing behind.
On the nose I get pleasant earthy walnut and some inviting green apple skins. Slight urinal cake. Gives me a sort of Oud Bruin/Sour Brown ale kind of vibe. I dig.
Usually I can tell from the first sip if I'm gonna finish it or not. This one does not inspire much confidence. Flavor brings sour apple green sucker and (lots of) copper pennies. About $5.00 worth. Some hints of cracker and grain are perceptible but not in full; finish tastes like infection, with some bitterly earthy Nugget and/or Warrior hops on the far back end that compound in bitterness outweighing the beer the more it is sipped.
Feel is carbonated and prickly with a sort of smoothness or slickness to it. Some actual perceptible alcohol in this 5.5% beer. There is some palatable acidic apple skin-like tartness as well. Nice touch there.
Overall, to be brutal, this beer is definitely on par for South Dakota beer. I love this state but we have a long ways to go beer-wise. It is a throwback beer to the mid 2000's when craft was just getting its feet wet and doesn't taste much better than something your buddy next door would brew. Tastes like they'll get it right in about a year or two. Add to the fact that this was canned less than a month ago and it gushed over like a waterfall making a mess, I see some rookie mistakes going on. I'll be opening the fruited sour I bought from them in the bathtub just in case. Definitely beginner stuff here.
Price paid : $5 / can
Would buy again : no
May 29, 2020This overcarbonated can says it would be a caramel-copper color but I get more of a blonde color with a massive over-carbonated head 75% of the snifter, that gradually dies to a thin ring leaving spotty lacing behind.
On the nose I get pleasant earthy walnut and some inviting green apple skins. Slight urinal cake. Gives me a sort of Oud Bruin/Sour Brown ale kind of vibe. I dig.
Usually I can tell from the first sip if I'm gonna finish it or not. This one does not inspire much confidence. Flavor brings sour apple green sucker and (lots of) copper pennies. About $5.00 worth. Some hints of cracker and grain are perceptible but not in full; finish tastes like infection, with some bitterly earthy Nugget and/or Warrior hops on the far back end that compound in bitterness outweighing the beer the more it is sipped.
Feel is carbonated and prickly with a sort of smoothness or slickness to it. Some actual perceptible alcohol in this 5.5% beer. There is some palatable acidic apple skin-like tartness as well. Nice touch there.
Overall, to be brutal, this beer is definitely on par for South Dakota beer. I love this state but we have a long ways to go beer-wise. It is a throwback beer to the mid 2000's when craft was just getting its feet wet and doesn't taste much better than something your buddy next door would brew. Tastes like they'll get it right in about a year or two. Add to the fact that this was canned less than a month ago and it gushed over like a waterfall making a mess, I see some rookie mistakes going on. I'll be opening the fruited sour I bought from them in the bathtub just in case. Definitely beginner stuff here.
Price paid : $5 / can
Would buy again : no
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