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Black Creek (Unintentionally) Sour Pumpkin Ale
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Black Creek (Unintentionally) Sour Pumpkin Ale
1.93/5 rDev -37.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
Murky medium amber body, hazy with lots of small floaties. Two finger head dies fast and doesn't lace. Smells like lemon, pumpkin, and almost imaginary spices. Tart lemon flavour up front with subtle vegetal and spice notes. Thin, watery, and oddly chalky with low carbonation. This is definately off, but it hasn't gained much carbonation from the unintended refermentation in the bottle. Oddly enough, the off aroma and flavour isn't particularly unpleasant - just very inappropriate in a beer of this style. This might be a really bad pumpkin beer, but it's only a mediocre sour. Weird.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 11-30-2012 04:20:06
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
Murky medium amber body, hazy with lots of small floaties. Two finger head dies fast and doesn't lace. Smells like lemon, pumpkin, and almost imaginary spices. Tart lemon flavour up front with subtle vegetal and spice notes. Thin, watery, and oddly chalky with low carbonation. This is definately off, but it hasn't gained much carbonation from the unintended refermentation in the bottle. Oddly enough, the off aroma and flavour isn't particularly unpleasant - just very inappropriate in a beer of this style. This might be a really bad pumpkin beer, but it's only a mediocre sour. Weird.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 11-30-2012 04:20:06
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There did seem something unusual I thought, it seemed a little lactic/acetic (yogurt-like?), yet it still had good pumpkin odours and the typical spicy taste.
I'd style this an "old ale" in 19th terms, which is neither here nor there really.
I blended it 50-50 with Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale, and added a few splashes of Sinha Stout, to make a "Black Pumpkin Ale". Very good it is, too.
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I'd style this an "old ale" in 19th terms, which is neither here nor there really.
I blended it 50-50 with Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale, and added a few splashes of Sinha Stout, to make a "Black Pumpkin Ale". Very good it is, too.
Gary
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A growler of Mill Street Pumpkin that went off for me had a cream cheese like lactic character. It was odd.G.M. Gillman wrote:There did seem something unusual I thought, it seemed a little lactic/acetic (yogurt-like?), yet it still had good pumpkin odours and the typical spicy taste...
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re: Highballer, sorry to hear anything negative about Grand River as they are one of the un-sung superstar breweries we have, IMO.
Not that I like everything they brew (the imperial stout I find puzzling) and they throw a few curveballs, but GR make a lot of great beers and do things with real integrity.
Not that I like everything they brew (the imperial stout I find puzzling) and they throw a few curveballs, but GR make a lot of great beers and do things with real integrity.
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