 Schroppfy (1729), Ohio, USA
Nov 17, 2005 Updated: Jun 27, 2008
Over a month later and now 5.0 again...fruit is not overly sweet or tart.
May 22nd, 2008 ---Batch 3’s fruitiness is out of this world, but it is too sweet at the moment. Lots of peach and nectarine skin flavor, very stony, and very good - just not quite perfect anymore (4.9).
Batch 2 and 1: 2 @ home and 1 @ DC at Cellar Clearing thanks to Ryan, March, 2008, on consecutive nights. Perfect beer, incredibly fruity. Just blended fruit and sour.
2 months later: A tiny bit unidimesional in it’s flatness, sourness, with just a bit of a reduction in fruitiness, brings this down a tiny bit from perfection. Original sampling: Update: By the way...I had no idea to expect this. Having had Mo Betta and lots of lambics I knew something about brett This was executed amazingly well. Original: 10 minutes earlier...This is unbelievable. Dry, smooth and catchy in the throat all at the same time. Mmm oh boy. Tinderbox dry. Balsawood chewing for half an hour dry. This is dry. Parching dryness. OK. The aroma is multiple strains of weirdness all at the same time wet rotting mushroom and wet wood and pale fruit like peach. And it just plays with your nose right there. The flavor is...well, there are some sweet parts, more like peach and canteloupe I guess. And some white wine maybe, not so sure except that it’s contributing to the entire experience. I think actually some of the flavor is like grape skins. Dry like that. Even the way the palate changes over the entire beer is amazing from too cold and thin to expansive. It looks luminescent. It begins to stink nicely by the midpoint of the beer. Wow. --- Not so much of a pop upon opening and a wet cork. The cork leaves tiny bits signal of a labor of love. I complain in my mind about beer prices sometimes of course this, like La Folie, is a peak beer experience and worth every penny. Who please will accept a shipment as I can’t get it in OH? Thanks to MilkmanDan for the gift.
Viking_Hammer (292), Lynnfield, Massachusetts, USA
Sep 3, 2008 Pours a cloudy golden yellow with a medium off white head. Aroma of oak and yeast. A very nice sour citrus bitterness and with a good amount of funk. I good amount of oak in the finish that is all the way sour. Wonderful beer.
radiomgb (1757), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Sep 1, 2008 Murky golden yellow in colour with a thin white coloured head, light lacing. The aroma is a bit oaky, light notes of alcohol, fruity with a bt of sourness. The flavour is again a bit oaky, some citrus, yeast, white grape skins, acidic with some light alcohol. Sweet and dry mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes lingering and lightly sour.
Quite smooth and the sourness is very well balanced. I can see this aging quite well. I feel that I need more of this and I have both batch 1 and 3 so more samples are in order.
375ml bottle shared by rudolf, thanks Rudy.
Opened on March 28, 2008.
Batch #2.
BlackForestCO (521), Fort Collins and Black Forest, Colorado, USA
Aug 31, 2008 Batch 3 bottle shared by mentor, thanks dude! Poured a cloudy, pale golden-straw color with a moderate off-white head that clung to the glass nicely. Aroma of soft yeastiness with some light citrus including apricot and mango, and a soft wine-like oak funk. Sweet, lightly tart entry leads into a moderate yeastiness with some barnyard funk and undertones of soft citrus fruit, finishing lightly sour with some yeast and oak in the finish. Smooth, soft carbonation.
durhambeer (411), Durham, North Carolina, USA
Aug 30, 2008 This was going to be my 400th rating, but I got thirsty and impatient so it was 399 instead. Lovely bright cloudy golden pour with pillowy white head. Nose gave more more oak than funk... and overall, that was the relative disappointment for me. Sour, but overall more woody than anything else. Oak was huge, with notes of citrus and chardonnay; quite lovely, but damn if it was really worth the rarity and cost. Amazing mouthfeel.
Taverner (440), San Ramon, California, USA
Aug 26, 2008 Aroma is funky barnyard - pretty strong actually. I like it! Flavor is the pins and needles for a very carbonated sour, and, well, sourness. I can taste notes of unsweetened white grapefruit, and then a dry bitter flavor. There’s some notes of chardonnay in there too - I just can’t put my finger on them. Aftertaste is an almost salty lipfeel.
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