Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the
NorCal Beer Blog's brew review.
Tonight’s featured beer is Almanac Beer Company Dogpatch
Strawberry.
From the Almanac Beer Company website:
“Swanton Berry Farm is nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Warmed by the
summer sun during the day and cooled by humid marine breezes at night,
Swanton’s fields grow some of the sweetest strawberries in California. We
hoarded these magical berries and added them to our Dogpatch Sour ale before
aging it in used wine barrels. This complex beer is our ode to the fertile
coastal farmlands of California.
Farm to Barrel
Our Farm to Barrel beers focus on the eons old tradition of
aging beers in oak barrels. This American wild ale was aged in used wine
barrels for eight months. In the barrels we blended a classic Belgian-style red
ale with local strawberries and a cocktail of wild Belgian and American yeasts,
including San Francisco Sourdough starter. The yeasts slowly morph the beer
from a traditional ale into something wild, creating a mild acidic bite as well
as pulling oak and vanilla flavors from the barrel. After maturing, the barrels
are blended back together—creating a vinous, delicate beer that captures a
specific moment in time from our select Northern California Farms. Farm to
Barrel Beers are alive in the bottle, and will continue to mature gracefully
for up to 3 years.”
Let’s get started!
Appearance: Pours
a hazy reddish amber color with a decent off-white head and thin sheets of
lacing.
Aroma: Strawberry
jam, citrus tartness, brett funk, oak and a slight vanilla aroma.
Taste: Tart, oaky
and vinous, sour strawberry jam, brett funk and pale malts.
Overall: Almanac
Beer Company Dogpatch Strawberry is yet another solid Sour in Almanac Beer
Company’s line-up. This 7.5% ABV
offering is very refreshing, delicious and balanced. If you’re a fan of the
style I highly recommend trying this one.
Cheers!
Mark Harvey
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