What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #4415

Good morning,
this is a spontaneous fermentation with peaches (nectarines) that I always gladly take when I find them available.

Ca' del Brado (Bologna, ITA) - CUVÉE DE PESGA - Peach Sour Ale (7,8%)

37.5 cl bottle (€12.50) at the beershop.
A beer that I have drunk several times, even on tap, which was produced through the maceration of freshly picked yellow-fleshed peaches (quality "Nettarine"), in a blend obtained by selecting some specific barrels previously refined with Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, as well as yeasts and bacteria present in our cellar.
So it was produced through the maceration of freshly picked yellow-fleshed nectarines, in a blend obtained by selecting some specific barrels previously refined with Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, as well as yeasts and bacteria present in our cellar.
The fruit therefore has an aromatic value (pulp and juices during maceration), but above all it guarantees uniqueness (and variability, but well controlled) to each batch since the fruit also triggers a refermentation: due to the sugars and the contribution to the fermentation environment (yeasts and bacteria present on the peel).
This is my review, added to the database in the past:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/51984/329487/?ba=Jack_14#lists

In this specific case, the bottle I opened was really very fruity (and therefore also sugary) and
the taste of the peaches was so fresh and vivid that it left in the background those woody and "cellar" reflections that usually characterize the end of drinking.
In my opinion, if you like a beer that fully releases the scent of the added fruit, in this form it is perfect.
Personally, however, I prefer it when the fruity flavor fades and those woody barrel hints emerge, with that light taste of cellar Bretta, which in this case remain light and struggle to emerge, remain in the background still in an embryonic state.
Even the typically acidic note is light and masked by the general sugary fruitiness.
In my humble opinion, if refined a little more in the bottle this beer can reach a higher and more refined level than the one in this bottle that actually seems too young to me.
However, I also know people who appreciate this very fresh fruitiness, so it comes back to personal tastes that are unjudgeable.
The way I am, if after the fruit you make me feel all that aromatic range that comes from the passage in "infected" barrels, the beer is of a superior level.
And this is also the reason why I keep some, like Cantillon's Fou Foune, in the cellar to mature... because if drunk too fresh it is very fruity and tasty, but I found it more banal than when, once the predominant apricot flavor has faded, the hints of the Lambic blend and the aromatic nuances of "cellar" beers emerge, beers in which among the unwritten ingredients there is Time and you don't have to rush to make it emerge.





Sláinte .
Cheers .


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Happy Thursday BA's! Thanks @MadMadMike for getting us going.
@Jack_14 The sour ale sounds quite interesting. I enjoy reading your review.

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Cheers!

 

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Happy Thursday BAs

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Cheers!

 

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Yes when this 12 pack is done, you will not see this posted by me for a long time if ever. Seriously has been work.