Squatters Fifth Element

Brewed by Salt Lake Brewing Company / Squatters Pub
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle shared by Irishboy (who got it from Odeed). Pours light gold with tiny bubbles and very little head. Aroma is sour, yeasty, citrus. Flavor is light pitted fruit, citrus, earthy, tart/sour. Not exactly bretty, but sour. It’s extremely delicious.

Bottle pour shared by Dan. Hazy hay color with no head. Smells like a high end gueze, tart and funky, really nice. Flavor is tart but not sour, musty tart white grapes. Medium high carbonation. This beer shocked me, absolutely amazing.

Finally brought myself to open this one. This poured a hazy dark yellow color with a fluffy white head. Aroma was light barnyard funk, fruits, some sand, earthy notes, and light spice. Flavor was even more impressed than the aroma, light funk/cheese, sour lemons, grass, bright peaches, and yeast spice in the finish. A really unique and impressive beer from this company.

Bottle from international trade; hazy orange pour with white head, funky aroma, sour taste with lively citrus, a bit of coconut not in your face sour but really glorious farmhouse funk.

0.75l bottle from my Secret Santa. Hazy golden color with small white head. Yeasty, bready aroma with notes of lemon, funk, earthy notes. Tart taste, with yeast, lemon, barnyard, hints oranges, maybe mango, wood. Long crisp, dry, tart finish. Delicious.

Thanks to Douglas88 for this beautiful bottle from Utah. Pours a hazy lemon yellow with a finger of loose white foam that fell off to a thin ring. Left some soapy lace as it drank. This beer is radiant in the glass. Nose is uplifting and brawny with brett, yeasty funk, buttery oak and lively with tart citrus. Grapefruit and lemon entice the nose with the promise of all that sour while a touch of floral and bread underneath dazzles and tempts you into the glass. Taste is lively, spirited, smooth, but tart. Very tart. Malt opens up mid palate a little grainy, a little grassy to enhance the buttery oak smoothness. Spice grants a little pepper and becomes more prominent as it drinks. Drinks light and engages you with each sip as the hops leave their touch of hay and bitter on the finish. This was my first sour and I can say that it’s robust like ale, drinks like very dry white wine, has a softness to the body that is pure delight against the sour and is far more complex than I expected. This was a luscious and reviving farmhouse ale and I was lucky to have had the opportunity to try it.

2011 Bottle. Aroma: lemon, cut hay, some nice Brett funk, banana and peach, faint light malts, oak and a touch of vanilla, peppercorns. Appearance: pours a slightly hazy straw/light golden color, fluffy white head with average retention and lacing. Flavor: firm but controlled acidity, lots of fresh lemon, oak is subdued compared to the aroma but a nice hint of vanilla persists, peach, pineapple, and to a lesser degree some banana. Light malts and cut hay, some Brett complexity leaning more towards spice, light funk, and earth. A bit of fruity sweetness mid-taste is followed by a bone dry, crisp and refreshing finish. Palate: light-medium body, medium-high carbonation. A soft, sort of creamy texture, crisp finish. Overall: this beer is absolutely delicious, I expected it to be good, but holy crap... Expectations were exceeded, well done!

750ml bottle, c&c .. . solid pop, small amount of foam creeping out of the bottle .. . mild sourness .. . hay and gritty grains .. . rather enjoyable i must say .. . . screaming without making a sound is yawning..

March 3, 2013 - bottle as an extra from Eric. Cloudy yellow pour with big head that lasted and spotty lacing. Aroma was sour, woody, peach, and yeast. Taste was tart, had a nice oak flavor, more citrus but some peach in there and a super clean finish.

Serving: Bottle via trade. Beware! It’s a gusher! Once the gushing stopped, it poured a hazy gold color with a large white head. The nose immediately tells you this is going to be a sour beast. Lots of funk and barnyard aromas in this one. The first taste is a punch in the mouth with a mind bending sourness that makes you pucker. The sourness doesn’t let off the gas from start to finish. Nice peach, oak, and barnyard flavors to go with. Light body with softer carbonation and a super dry, tart finish. This was one of the best sours I’ve had in awhile.