Sour Power
Elysian Brewing Company
- From:
- Elysian Brewing Company
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 1.1%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2014
- Added:
- Dec 28, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ccrida from Oregon
3.67/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
"Pro-AM GABF collaboration, a Flemish-style wood aged sour beer. Sour Power, the artist formerly known as Pucker Puss, was brewed with pale, cara-hell, Special B and cara-vienne malts, with dark Belgian candy and turbinado sugars, mild and dark molasses, coriander and orange peel in the boil. Bittered and flavored with EKG; finished with saaz. Golden raisins in the fermenter. Secondary fermentation (isothermic, through the heat wave and everything) in port and whiskey barrels, then blended before chilling, carbonation and racking. Fermented with Trappist ale yeast and then with Wyeast Roeselare yeast. Starting gravity (1.078), 7% ABV."
On draught at the Capital Hill pub. Served in a shaker pint, hell yeah! Sour Power is chill hazed ruddy chestnut brown with only a thin white collar leaving no lace.
Smell is sweeter, a touch tart, defiantly like a Flemish-style wood aged sour beer.
Taste is pretty robust and complex, really all over the place. First impression is that it's an extremely oaky, malty brown, with way more emphasis on the bourbon barrel then the Flemish sour. For being called Sour Power / Pucker Puss, it's really not sour at all honestly, and really just has the spirit barrel character. Roeselare takes FOREVER to work, so they undoubtably should have given this another year (or 2) if they wanted it to live up to it's name (or just skipped the Trappist primary). I'd honestly give this a 4 if they didn't market as "sour power." But since it's not actually sour, I'm more inclined to go 3 vs 4! Nevertheless, they made up for the overpriced 'hazelnut' brown ale by serving me a full pint of this bad boy!
Mouthfeel is dry, medium bodied.
Drinkability is pretty good if you like oaky spirit aged ales. If not, you're in trouble...sour fans will be disappointed, but it's good for what it is, rather then is not.
Dec 28, 2009On draught at the Capital Hill pub. Served in a shaker pint, hell yeah! Sour Power is chill hazed ruddy chestnut brown with only a thin white collar leaving no lace.
Smell is sweeter, a touch tart, defiantly like a Flemish-style wood aged sour beer.
Taste is pretty robust and complex, really all over the place. First impression is that it's an extremely oaky, malty brown, with way more emphasis on the bourbon barrel then the Flemish sour. For being called Sour Power / Pucker Puss, it's really not sour at all honestly, and really just has the spirit barrel character. Roeselare takes FOREVER to work, so they undoubtably should have given this another year (or 2) if they wanted it to live up to it's name (or just skipped the Trappist primary). I'd honestly give this a 4 if they didn't market as "sour power." But since it's not actually sour, I'm more inclined to go 3 vs 4! Nevertheless, they made up for the overpriced 'hazelnut' brown ale by serving me a full pint of this bad boy!
Mouthfeel is dry, medium bodied.
Drinkability is pretty good if you like oaky spirit aged ales. If not, you're in trouble...sour fans will be disappointed, but it's good for what it is, rather then is not.
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