Smooth brettanomyces yeast-laden farmhouse ale leads mossy oaken leathering and vinous Reisling wining to dried-fruited prune, apricot and green raisin desiccation. Dark floral whims, musty horse-blanketed barnyard earthiness and musky herbage waver.
Offbeat sour saison peculiarity aged on oak with spruce tips (!) utilizes mixed culture brettanomyces yeast funk to add ammonia strength to dry lemon-limed parch, champagne sparkle and ambitious herbal spiced foraging underscored by acidulated wheat. Minty spruce tips amplify zesty lemony white wining as capacious pink peppercorn, fern, thyme, fennel, tarragon, dill, cardamom and mustard seed illusions penetrate musky mineralized rusticity.
On tap at Ambulance, oak-aged sour saison (a foraged farmhouse ale) brings vinous white wine esters and tart lime splurge to sourly sweet raspberry adjunct. Lollipop-like raspberry sway picks up Sauvignon Blanc nip with musky tannic leathering.
On tap at Ambulance, brettanomyces-bound foraged yeast culture invites earthen truffle and malted spelt dryness to mildly acidic lemon liming, tannic white wine esters, bergamot cologne musk and mild green apple bittering given salty iodine alkalinity.
Dry straw cleared foeder-aged farmhouse ale plies oaken vanilla tannins to lime-juiced lemon zesting, vinous white-wined green grape esters and tart green apple scurry secured by modest brettanomyces-like acidity.
On tap at Ambulance, mildly acidic mixed fermentation farmhouse ale lets clementine juicing get aged by bitter and sweet orange peel, grapefruit peel and lemon peel, gaining pinot grigio wining, leathery green grape tannins and sour lemon pucker.
On tap at Ambulance, vinous lemony blackberry tartness lets oaken white wine esters and straw hay leathering soak up dry hulled spelt graining. Highly acidic sour blackberry continuance will please sour ale lovers but prohibit less profound (or intense) thirsts.
Green jalapeno chili peppering intensively heats up moderate-bodied, yellow cleared, flat headed sour saison. Lemony acidity and green grape vinegaring add bitter edge above leathery barnyard acridity.
On tap at Jealous Monk, sour wildflower-honeyed lemon liming gains mildly acidic white wine tannins and slight ammonia pungency above light rustic-grained pilsner malting.
On tap at Ambulance, sour lactobacillus yeast brings gose-inspired alderwood-smoked sea salting to oyster mushroom umami mossing and truffle-like earthiness guarding lemon-limed yellow grapefruit bittering of arid hybridized farmhouse ale enjoyed more by those with a taste for citric-laced oceanic salinity.
On tap at Ambulance, curious mixed culture saison combines brown sour ale and golden sour ale for a tannic Flemish Red hybrid. Bubbly champagned-licked lemon liming gains fizzy white wining, oaken cherry tartness and dry peppercorn spicing over barnyard-dried herbage. Vinous lactobacillus yeast provides dry wined acidity for soured wild ale.
On tap at Ambulance, dry mixed culture Sauvignon Blanc-derived farmhouse ale aged in oak foeders retains leathery green grape esters. Lightly acidic white wining seeps into limey green apple, white peach, passionfruit and pomegranate souring.