Midnight Sun 2008 Planet Beers: Uranus

Formerly brewed at Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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(22oz. bottle) Pours a golden body with a small white head. Aroma of leather, horse blanket, wet dead leaves, white grapes, pepper, and earthiness. Flavor of citrus, earthiness, candi sugar, and light funkiness.

Date: March 28, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: hazy orange, fine white head, sudsy lace
Aroma: light sweet malt aroma with lots of bretty funk, sweaty leather
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, nice spicyness, lots of funk, light bitterness
Overall: will age and funk up very nicely
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+/4

(BCTC, 750ml bottle, thanks kramer) Medium off-white head atop clear apple juice body. Aroma is moderately sweet, some spice, apple. Taste is medium sweet, apple, some spice, wood, some Brett, yeast, light dusky. Light-medium body.

Bottle shared by shigadeyo. Poured clear yellow color with an average to large frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate to heavy sour citrus and brett yeast aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet & sour flavor with a medium sour finish of moderate duration. My expectations where exceeded.

Thanks Tom for sharing Uranus with me. Poured a medium and hazy yellow color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of funk, brett, earthy, citrus, and some tart fruits. Tastes of citrus/lemons, brett, and citrus. Tart finish.

Thanks to goldtwins for sharing this gem. Pale golden beer with a thin white head. Aroma is lightly honeyish. Soft pale malt and a strange sort of caramelly/sugary sweetness. Fruity peach and apricot mingling with the soft Belgian pale malt. Lean but also a little bit plasticy/fatty note on the texture. There is a bit of light mustiness starting to work though, but this needs a lot of time to come together. There are a few things I like about this, but the slick texture and residual sweetness don’t really appeal to me at this point.

Bomber poured a clear gold with a lasting off white head. Aromas of horseblanket, leather, straw, pear, pineapple and barnyard funk. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of straw, citrus, horseblanket, barnyard funk, light earthiness and a hint of leather with a smooth dry lingering funky finish.

Bottle. Pours hazy gold with an average, frothy, white head, lasting with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, meal), light hop (grass), heavy yeast (barnyard, horse blanket) with notes of medicine, bandage, pear, butter, clove, and coriander. Medium bodied, sticky texture, lively carbonation, and a metallic finish. Average duration, light sweetness and bitterness, moderate acidity.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a foamy white head over a hazy yellow body. Head leaves good lace. Aroma is fruit, light spice, earthiness, baby diaper and light plastic. Taste is earthy and slightly tart with notes of citrus. Fizzy and a bit on the dry side. Good Belgian!

Bottle from the Otown throwdown. From miketd. Thanks!! Gold pour wtih a nice white head. Has a funky as hell nose with apples and hints of honey. Flavor is bretty and has some nice fruity tones.