Firestone Walker Bretta Rosé
Thirty miles north of Barrelworks lies the fertile Santa Maria Valley. Its warm days and cool marine layer-fed evenings allow for a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables to be grown in its rich soil. One of Santa Maria’s crown jewels is locally grown raspberries. We jumped at the opportunity to ferment fresh local raspberries with one of our Barrelworks creations. Behold Bretta Rosé! A low-alcohol Berliner Weisse style ale, acidified and matured in French oak puncheons for 6 months, is the foundation for this gem. Add 1000 lbs. of fresh raspberries, allow a secondary wild fermentation for 4 more months and voila (!), we have a crisp effervescent concoction, bursting with raspberry perfume and flavor, a rosé color, bracing acidity, and a clean and refreshing finish.
3.9
259 reviews
Paso Robles, United States
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Bottle from the BarrelWorks in Buellton. Tart nose, lots of strawberry, some light funk and very perfumey overall. Pretty reddish blond color. Tart berries, quite jammy, goes sweet in mid palate, balances out in late mid, and finishes moderately dry. Thin body, mild astringency. Pleasant, balanced, very drinkable.
Christmas day and the Christmas festivities are finally over. Splitting this bottle with the wife. A pricey but very good sour. Fresh raspberries, oak and a nice sour punch.
Strong raspberry aroma, pours a pretty pink. Sweet, but tart raspberry flavour that is nicely balanced with the oak barrel flavour.
Delicious. Tastes like raspberry! Really enjoyed the flavour as a first time beer drinker
Such a good beer, not a beer drinker and this is the first one I've ever liked!
On tap. Initial aromas of fairy floss and honeydew and vanilla. Cutting but balanced acidic bite with a raspberry finish. Crisp mouthfeel. Lovely!
Sour tasting beer. Can taste the rose, although by no means overpowering. I enjoyed it.
Lovely appearance, good sourness on the palate with nice body to follow. Subtle raspberry flavour finishes it off...
Raspberry predominant and smooth mouthfeel. Light wildness. This should be drink again.
The schnozberries actually taste like schnozberries. All kidding aside. It’s refreshing to drink a beer with a fermented fruit that has kept the correct flavour profile and really doesn’t taste gimmicky. Very approachable for non beer drinkers too!!
On tap at The Taphouse, Darlinghurst. Beautiful tangy raspb-lemon nose with nice dry finish.
Really delicious sour. Raspberries are quite prominent and is a delicious beer of the Firestone range.
8Sep2018 Sour citrus fruits, orange and lemon peel, lime juice. Hazy reddish, small, reddish head. Medium sour..ore sour citrus fruits, orange and lemon peel, lime juice, acidic, soft carbonation. Alright. Keg at BeaverEx18 - Saturday session, Canada Water.
Hazy pink color, vivid raspberry aroma. Bright fresh flavour with good tartness and plenty of raspberry flavour.
Draught at Ginger Man Boston, 9/13/18.
Mostly clear, cantaloupe-to-deep-rose-peach. Off-white head fades slowly to ring.
Lovely, juicy fruit in the nose is tart and fresh with good attenuation but still plentiful juice character. Not getting too much else initially, but eventually oak and light lactic acidity does emerge.
In the mouth, raspberry acid, almost puckering but for a strong cereal-like character, collects on the palate. Very high attenuation in both fruit and malt, but still remains juicy with lightly seedy, mineral-like raspberry character. More acidity found on the finish, with a very light body yet oak emerging with warming to add a soft, nutty tannin. Pretty nice, though very fruit-heavy and maybe a bit lacking in beer character. Oak continues to emerge with fruity, spicy notes lingering.
Keg at Stockholm Beer Festival. Hazy pink, small head. Tart lemony raspberry aroma. Lemon and cobwebs, frozen raspberries. Low bitterness.
June 20th, 2015 - The Bretta Rose is a nice gem in Toronado's menu, a beautiful pomegranate and ember color. The aroma is bright and springy with some sweet watermelon, fresh raspberry, cotton candy, and deep cherry scents, like a fancy, cherry jubilee. The flavor is much more sour, beginning with a sample of pomegranate, and blossoms, ramping up in acidity on a linear scale. But even at its peak, the sourness is brilliantly balanced, with a nice acidic burn all the way through. Layers of watermelon and sour barrel come in with some white wine vinegar and what seems like chardonnay. The taste is bright and one sip goes a long way, though the aftertaste is relatively short.
Tap. Hazy reddish-orange color with white head. Aroma is berries, yoghurt. Taste is berries, yoghurt. Mineralic finish, fizzy carbonation.
Keg at beaverfest. Pours hazy pink, nose is raspberry, funk, oak, taste is similar, huge funk
How: Draught.
Where: MBCC 2018.
Appearance: Pink colour with a small white head.
Aroma: Raspberries, sour, fruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Raspberries, sour, fruit, tart, some citrus.
Bottle at home. It starts with a very strong smell indicating the sour flavours will be strong. The sourness does not disappoint; intense sour flavours, balances well with the raspberry notes.
12.7 oz bottle with a cork. Big sour barnyard smells. Pours a very pretty rosey gold with a white head of micro bubbles. Super sour tastes balanced by barnyard flavors of rose petals and unrepentant berries. Ends with a fizzy mouthfeel and long sour finish. Quite an accomplishment.
Where and how: glass @ Buffalo trip, Thin Man
Aroma frontal tartness, fruity with raspberry character.
Appearance :
Top: poured with bright white cap, long lasting.
Base: fine haze on radiant amber
Palate : medium thinner bodied, dry.
Taste: a bit let down. Sparkly tart berry notes, somewhat sour. Seemingly all is here but failed me to wow.
On tap at the FW taproom in Venice. Great rose' color. Tart. Funky. Solid berry. A touch thin. Finishes tartly fruity. 14
(Bottle) Reddish-pink body with a small but persistent off-white head. Raspberry aroma. Flavor is face-puckeringly tart; radpeberry, apple, grape. Light bodied and lively carbonation.
Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Yellow Session.Pinkish color. Aroma has yeast funk, floral notes and berries. Taste is tart, fruity, a bit acidic with acetic flavors.
Sampled at MBCC 2018. Low fluffy white lasting head. Hazy amber red body. Brett dominated aroma. Sour vinegar brett raspberries flavor. Low carbonation, little (if any) hops bitterness, low carbonation, short finish.
330 cL corked, caged bottle from Smith's. Pours hazy orange with pink highlights and fizzy off-pink head. Nose is fresh raspberries, earthy yeast, oak. Tastes of tart raspberries, yeast, mild funk, oak, fruity and delicious finish.
Sample at MBCC 2018. Poured a hazy light orange colour with a frothy off white head. The aroma is yeast, light raspberries. The flavour is moderate to light sour with a crisp, light, yeast, fresh tart raspberry fruit palate. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation.
Draught at MBCC. Orange color, white head. Sour taste with raspberry, brett, acidic notes, red currant, wheat and grass. Sour finish with raspberry, wheat, red currant, earthy notes and grass. Excellent sour ale.