Valley Brew Effinguud

Brewed by Valley Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Stockton, California USA

Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet malty with sour notes of lacto, fruit, and brettanomyces. The flavor is sweet and acicid with strong notes of over ripe berries and grapes, as well as medium notes of brettanomyces, leading to a tart fruity finish. Thanks Steve for this.

Bottle 65 cl. Pours a murky and opaque orangey brown with prety much no head. Lovely oak aroma, also somewhat vinous. Quite full-bodied, low in carbonation, sweet caramel, fruit and LOADS of oak. No real bitterness but a vague underlying tartness. Very yummy. 220909

22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark orange to brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is wineous and mild sour, roasted malt note. Wineous, fruity and wooden flavoured. Bitter. Smooth fruity and lingering mild wooden, wineous to sourish finish. Nice one.

Bottle 22fl.oz.
Unclear medium to dark red brown color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry, sour berry, sour grape, oak, vanilla. Flavor is moderateto heavy sweet and light moderate acidic with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090922]

Bottle at Papsø. Hazy brown coloured with a small off white head. Light acidic aroma of wood, sherry, vanilla and red wine. Light aicidc flavour of vanilla, red wine, wood and rubber. Tart finish.

Name: F’in Great Port Barrel Weizenbock
Date: 06/24/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, RBSG 2007

clear dark brown. headless, tart chocolate aroma, rich chocolate flavor, light oaky tartness, sweet alcohol essence,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

This high concept brew sounds interesting on paper but simply doesn’t work out. Flat dull chestnut appearance is pretty unappetizing. Fruity, tart aroma...that bit is nice but it should be accenting something rather than being the whole show. Flat body. That it is on purpose is disappointing because it lends the mouthfeel a slick, oily character which is not enjoyable but also because carbonation helps bring the flavours across the palate. So in this case, not much gets across the palate. There’s still some late tartness and hints of both cherry and chocolate but I get very little base beer on which these accents should be built. I get the port barrel, but I don’t get the weizenbock.

Cloudy brown color; no head. The aroma shows some fruity and sour side, with light vanilla oak too. Medium body strength, actually a bit light at the end, with a nice vanilla oak to cover the caramel flavor. It also has some alcohol punch. It’s a bit confusing, but not bad.