Bent Stick Brewing Co. / Fallentimber Meadery Lawyers Guns & Honey – Braggot at 8.5% ABV (C$5.08 at Collective, 473 ml, no packaging date or best before, acquired 10-Jun-2021, reviewed 2-Jul-2021)
Appearance: hazy straw with two fingers of fluffy white head diminishing rapidly to a thick cap, no lacing. (3/5) Aroma: wet hay funk, white wine, honey. (6/10) Taste: moderate sweet, moderate-low bitter. (7/10) Medium-light body, lively carbonation, slightly sticky short finish. (3/5)
Brewer notes say this is “aggressively dryhopped with Nelson Sauvin, Enigma, and friendship”. I generally like Braggots, but I have issues with this one. I guess I have to acknowledge the wine notes I’d expect from the ANZ hopping, but there’s a wet hay funk dominating it, and I’m not sure why that would be the case: as far as I can tell, it’s not brewed with Brett, for example. I’m tempted to conclude this is infected, or at least has some honey-derived stuff interacting in unexpected ways. Either way, it’s not really working for me. (13/20)
6.5/10 ryansbooze.com #ryansbooze
