Triple Brett
Templin Family Brewing

gorgeous packaging on this, and as much as the templin lagers and hoppy stuff has been epic of late, its still the wild funky ones that hold my interest the most, saw this bottle and just had to grab it from the brewery, super cool concept here, a dark lager in oak with montmorency cherries, a surprising beer in a number of ways. the first is that its a lager, you dont often see this wild beer treatment on lager, which is cool, and the sourness is also striking, more of an almost flanders red thing to me in nose and taste, that heavy bacterial pucker, that acetobacter intensity pushing the vinegar thing, not unpleasant but surprising for brett alone, mouthwatering, and some acidity here no doubt comes from the puckery cherries, which are highly dosed, but i dont usually associate brett with ph this low, maybe picked up something in the oak, intentional or not. hard to appreciate this as a lager really with all thats going on, but i like the beer, the deeper malt character is compatible with the fruit, and i get dried as well as fresh cherry, tangy red wine like sangiovese, and a decent amount of tannic oak, could be wine barrels, light vanilla, raisin, smoke, fig, wet tobacco, and red raspberry as it warms, less of the bretty funk overall than i was anticipating, light green glass weirdness but this doesnt seem real old or anything, a little prickle of alcohol in play too, fine carbonation, a little sedimented heft to the texture beyond that too, and in the end i think i like the packaging a little better than the beer, tasty and original but maybe not exactly what they had planned for it, and to me a little harsher and less refined than i have come to expect from these guys, much as i appreciate this being exotic and even kind of challenging. less acidity would make it objectively better i reckon, but it was a fun one to share around the room with the boys!

Bottle cap opened with a large pop. It poured a red raspberry color with no translucence; very frothy head that dissolvers quickly. Heavy cherries at the nose with a faint of raspberries. Also subtle barn funk. The taste just as incredible, heavy sweet cherries with some raspberries and a funky essence. I find it sweet and juicy with some tartness. Very minimal acidity. The mouthfeel is very effervescent, almost foams in the mouth. Truly outstanding, can’t say it enough. I don’t know if this is experimental but hope they come out with more beers like this.