The Spontaneous Ferment: Boysenberries
Garden Path Fermentation

Cellared a year. Dark deep purplish red body, white ring for a head. Both smell and taste have the same make up: huge and passionate tart boysenberry bring waves of flavor, but the contrasting tartness and funk are pretty light. Feel is lighter but this seems intention with the lower abv, tart with a hint of acidity, funk dries out the profile slightly but want more to truly be dyamic. Still it is well crafted especially as a satisfying sour

2019 vintage, the first i have ever seen of this one, really cool beer from these folks, who just continue to blow me away with each and every beer. the color on this is insane, deeply saturated high shine stained glass jewel tone half way between pink and purple, looks like jelly, and the head rises high, a lighter pink, then falls pretty quickly, but the beer stays fizzy. the nose is wild and jammy at the same time, fermentation forward and bretty like all of their stuff, but so fruited that the funk is a little obscured by it, no real complaints, this sort of hits like modern lambic, highly wild but highly fruited too, really appealing, moderately sour, citric, twangy, blackberry and plum notes from the boysenberries, some oak. the flavor is all of this, a good mix of bugs in the ferment making this real unique, tart and farmy at the same time, rustic and old school, but then tons of fruit, identifiable as boysenberry for sure, and highly dosed, making this very northwestern to me, woodsy, summery. its got some body to it and a little residual fruit sugar too, like it would condition up well with more time in the bottle, but its killer now too. i get a light honey note, some earthy underneath malts, and a black cherry hint. overall this is fabulous, interesting, and well made, no surprise from these guys. great to see some nee flavors and some smaller bottles, makes these more accessible. expensive but worth what they ask for it in my opinion, would love to see how this ages even longer!