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4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Czech Republic, Métaphore, Wild Ale

Métaphore Here and Now: Forests & Fields

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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.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Czech Republic, Métaphore, Wild Ale

Métaphore Here and Now: Peaches

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Brewery: Métaphore
Country: Czech Republic
ABV: 6%
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 an exquisite harvest of locally grown organic peaches. Made exclusively from local and organic ingredients, this beer is a pure expression of my favorite fuzzy fruit, truly reflecting the local land and the passage of time through her. Best enjoyed in good company! Na zdravi!

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.43

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, with a best before date of 12th March 2034. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden straw yellow colour with an almost two finger white head that had good retention, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Tart, peaches, peach skin, sweaty, funk.
Taste: Sour, tart, fruity, peach, with a hint of oak and funk.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Peaches are front and centre. Good in the aroma, but great in the flavour. The strong peachy fruitiness makes this beer really enjoyable and just drinks really easy.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Czech Republic, Métaphore, Wild Ale

Métaphore Here and Now: Rhubarb & Reine Claude

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Brewery: Métaphore
Country: Czech Republic
ABV: 5.1%
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 locally grown organic rhubarb and Reine Claude plums. A harmonious and delicate expression 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: 4.24

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, with a best before date of 10th January 2034. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy golden straw yellow colour with a one finger white head that had good retention while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Lightly tart, earthy, rhubarb, yellow stone fruit, plums, wood, with light funky notes.
Taste: Much like the aroma, lightly sour and tart, earthy, rhubarb, plum, wood, funk.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: Good easy drinking as the earthy rhubarb goes well with the plums, and overall not too sour or acidic.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Garage Project, New Zealand, Wild Ale

Garage Project The Elephant Never Forgets

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Brewery: Garage Project
Country: New Zealand
ABV: 5%
Style: Wild Ale
Other Notes: Blended strawberry & rhubarb sour

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Originally bottled in 2018 this blend of mixed ferment oak barrels infused with rhubarb and strawberry was tucked away to condition and mellow. What happened next? Was it lost, was it misplaced or did it simply slip from our minds? ‘Rediscovered’ five years later, like a well aged wine the beer is transformed with the glow of French polished teak, mellow fruit and delightful sherry like complexity. Enjoy now or ‘misplace’ it for the future.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.29

Intro: A 750ml bottle, packed on 20th September 2018 (but as per the description, seems only released in 2023). Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A clear golden colour with a half finger white head that had pretty good retention, and eventually settled to a ring around the glass, while leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Tart, jammy, rhubarb, strawberry.
Taste: Sour, tart, sweet, jammy, strawberry, rhubarb, with a dash of lemon.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to high carbonation.
Overall: The strawberry and rhubarb was a good combination, and the aroma was especially enjoyable here. Carbonation was a touch strong, but doesn’t detract from it too much.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Denmark, Insight Cellars, Wild Ale

Insight Cellars Glimmering Grove

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Brewery: Insight Cellars
Country: Denmark
ABV: 6.6%
Style: Wild Ale
Other Notes: Danish Wild Ale with fresh apricots and white nectarines. 2023 vintage

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Glimmering Grove is a celebration of ripe summer stone fruits plucked fresh from the tree. Its journey started with a base blend of one, two and three-year-old Danish Wild Ales aged in Chardonnay and Monbazillac barrels. We macerated this with over 600 grams of the finest Bergeron apricots and Tiffany white nectarines from France per liter of wild ale. The final blend features two-thirds apricot and one-third nectarine wild ale, resulting in a harmonious union of sweet and tart that captures the sunlit vibrancy of a summer orchard.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 750ml corked and caged bottle, 2023 vintage, bottled on 26th October 2023. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour, with a one finger white head that had pretty good retention, while leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Sweet and tart, fresh cut ripe yellow stone fruit, nectarine, peach, apricot.
Taste: Sour, tart, nectarine, apricot, peach, oak, light funk.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Very nice aroma full of ripe yellow stone fruit. Nice flavours too, but didn’t quite match the near unbeatable aroma.