Picked up a 4 pack of this blended Flanders Red and it tastes quite good to me. The sourness is minimal, but there is a nice Brett aftertaste, with some fresh, tart cherry-like up-front sweet/sour interplay present. Not funky-horsey at this point, but if it sat longer, who knows how far the Brett might go? I just don’t think this 4-pack will ever get to know…my willpower is not that strong. A nice, but somewhat reasonably priced Flanders Red - at $19 for four 11.2 oz bottles
In bottles it seems to be hit or miss. On tap at Monk’s Café in Philly, it’s just plain awesome!
I’m pretty sure that beer is pasteurized and backsweetened so it won’t get more sour or funky with time.
I thought it was good, if a bit tame. I think the four pack is $15 at my liquor store. Not sure I would pay for them again, but if someone were to offer me one…
Very true. I had a bottle with lunch once at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. That was pretty cool too.
I could see that being the case with the blend - stop it in its tracks to get more consistency out of the batch. In that case I would have let the funk go a little more before back sweetening and hitting the binders.
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