Sour Apple
Edmund's Oast Brewing Company
- From:
- Edmund's Oast Brewing Company
- South Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 20.72%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 21, 2021
- Added:
- Nov 11, 2020
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Our golden sour base beer with Northern Spy apples.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
4.03/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16 oz can purchased from Red's Wine & Spirits in Nashville, $3.99 / can, canned on 10/28/20, into Bearded Iris Teku.
Deep juicy gold with a fleeting head that starts at 2 fingers and fizzles to nothing within about 10 seconds.
Aroma is sour culture, kinda limey, with faint apple skins though I wouldn't know the difference if it wasn't on the can.
Again here, the sour culture is good - Edmund's Oast know what they are doing - but nothing really screams apple to me. It comes in towards the finish, after a middle note of pale dough ball, in the form of fresh red apple and tart apple cider, seeming like a lazy afterthought. It's hella tasty though, owing to their culturing, credit where credit is due I guess.
Feel is starchy and clingy, with some good busy carbonation that helps wash that off the palate, near zero alcohol heat, and a lot of zing and pucker.
So, Edmund's Oast obviously isn't bad at making sours - in fact, their Order Of Magnitude was one of my favorite sours ever. Their house culture is present in all of these fruited sours, and it consistently delivers a great flavor. My issue is that the fruits aren't prominent enough so each sour they do tastes somewhat the same. With the exception of their Boysenberry Plum (according to memory - which I have to try again to revisit), it's pretty much "had one, had them all". Again - you can't really go wrong since they have it down pat - but don't expect a wide swath of flavors between their fruited sour lineup.
And FWIW - where I bought this (in Nashville), for a 4 pack, you could easily spend just $4 more and get a 4 pack of SG's basic Hill series and it would smear this all over the floor.
A good beer, not a great one.
Price paid : $3.99 / can
Would buy again : probably not
Mar 21, 2021Deep juicy gold with a fleeting head that starts at 2 fingers and fizzles to nothing within about 10 seconds.
Aroma is sour culture, kinda limey, with faint apple skins though I wouldn't know the difference if it wasn't on the can.
Again here, the sour culture is good - Edmund's Oast know what they are doing - but nothing really screams apple to me. It comes in towards the finish, after a middle note of pale dough ball, in the form of fresh red apple and tart apple cider, seeming like a lazy afterthought. It's hella tasty though, owing to their culturing, credit where credit is due I guess.
Feel is starchy and clingy, with some good busy carbonation that helps wash that off the palate, near zero alcohol heat, and a lot of zing and pucker.
So, Edmund's Oast obviously isn't bad at making sours - in fact, their Order Of Magnitude was one of my favorite sours ever. Their house culture is present in all of these fruited sours, and it consistently delivers a great flavor. My issue is that the fruits aren't prominent enough so each sour they do tastes somewhat the same. With the exception of their Boysenberry Plum (according to memory - which I have to try again to revisit), it's pretty much "had one, had them all". Again - you can't really go wrong since they have it down pat - but don't expect a wide swath of flavors between their fruited sour lineup.
And FWIW - where I bought this (in Nashville), for a 4 pack, you could easily spend just $4 more and get a 4 pack of SG's basic Hill series and it would smear this all over the floor.
A good beer, not a great one.
Price paid : $3.99 / can
Would buy again : probably not
Rated by BMBCLT from South Carolina
2.15/5 rDev -40.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.25
2.15/5 rDev -40.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.25
Drain-pour!
Jan 17, 2021
Reviewed by larryi86 from Delaware
4.2/5 rDev +16%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev +16%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
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16 oz can poured into a teku
A- A slightly hazy golden copper with a small white head.
S- Sour, lemons, Granny Smith apples, slightly earthy.
T- Tart, apple both sweet and tart, lemons, touch of apple peels, mildly earthy.
M- Smooth, crisp, light body.
O- It always seems that apple beers are more hit and miss for me since it this either a cider or has minimal apple flavor, it this one actually tastes like apples.
Nov 15, 202016 oz can poured into a teku
A- A slightly hazy golden copper with a small white head.
S- Sour, lemons, Granny Smith apples, slightly earthy.
T- Tart, apple both sweet and tart, lemons, touch of apple peels, mildly earthy.
M- Smooth, crisp, light body.
O- It always seems that apple beers are more hit and miss for me since it this either a cider or has minimal apple flavor, it this one actually tastes like apples.
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