Brewery: Métaphore
Country: Czech Republic
ABV: 5.7%
Style: Wild Ale

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A blended, coolshipped spontaneously fermented beer, aged in oak barrels for one, two, and three years, married with wild-foraged bilberries and organic raspberries. The dichotomy of wild, uncultivated berries from local woods and the cultivated efforts of man-made gardens with perfumey raspberries beautifully echoes at the core of this beer. Seemingly gently tamed and refined, but truly wild at heart. A playful and expressive depiction of the local landscape and its passage through the seasons, captured in a bottle. Best enjoyed in good company! Na zdravi!

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, with a best before date of 19th February 2034. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy dark red colour with a slight purple tint, and a one finger purple head that had good retention, eventually settling to a cap, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Light tartness, fruity ripe berries, blueberry, wood, with light notes of vines and raspberries.
Taste: Lightly sour and tart, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, wood, with light funky notes. The fruit is good, but seems slightly mellowed compared to what I was expecting from the aroma (which was previously communicated by the brewer Jiří).
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: A very lively beer in the bottle that continues the slow bubbling while wanting to escape. The look and aroma was great, and I wish I got to try it when the fruit was at it’s most intense as the flavours are right up my alley. Just enjoyable easy drinking.