Wicked Weed Medora Blackberry Raspberry Sour
Medora is a blonde sour ale aged in red wine barrels with one pound of blackberries and raspberries per gallon. The result is a beautiful fuchsia ale with bright berry character.
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192 reviews
Asheville, United States
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Pours red with a nice head, aroma of wine, cherry, sour and fresh, flavor is sour with cherries, raspberries, medium to full bodied, Great
Pours beautiful ruby. Nose is raspberries and berry and light funk. Taste is the same. Berries. Acid, funk, awesome. Bone dry
Sampler at Hops and Pie 8-20-16
Beautiful pour and appearance and the hint of fruit is perfectly balanced by the sourness.
Pours hazy amber with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, raspberries and tart. The aroma is strong berries, wood, funk. Medium mouth feel, wood, funk, nice tartness, very good.
Hazy amber color with beige head. Aroma is really fruity with nice blackberry fruit puree and some red wine notes. Taste is dry, fruity, juicy with pulpy berry flavors, not very sour, quite easy to drink. Medium body and carbonation. Quite complex yet clean fruited sour.
8/2/2016 -- from notes: Bottle shared by alexsdad06. Awesome big raspberry, blackberry in the flavor. Very nice big lacto in the nose, kind of creamy. Bigger sour taste, light dry. Red color. Thin off-white head, good bits of lace. Medium-plus body. Kind of soft, crisp carbonation. Very satisfying rasp/blackberry sour.
Tap @ the Hive. Hazy reddish amber with a thin pinkish head. Tart fresh berries, hay, funky earth. The dry finish is balanced between tart and sour. Excellent.
Draft at Craft Brewed Wicked Weed event. Pours a dark vinous grape hue with a finger of foam that lingers. Jammy blackberry nose with faint raspberry, wild strawberry, touch of horseblanket. Berry skins, lemon. Quite tart on the palate, oak slight vinegar. Light smoke as it warms. Good fruit notes throughout. Nice.
Butelka. Aromat mocno owocowy, wiśnia, czarna porzeczka, pestkowe. Fajne, winne trochę.
Z: czarna porzeczka, porzeczka. S: kwasno, kwasno, jest porzeczka, jest malina, znowu kwas, mocno kwas, kurde kwaśne.
W aromacie czarna porzeczka, dzikość. W smaku bardziej czerwona porzeczka, jakaś taka malinowa słodka kontra. Fajnie zbalansowane piwo.
Bottle from Healthy Spirits. Pours fuchsia with a transient pinkish beige head and a berry aroma. There is a really tasty sourish light malt flavor with a delicate, yet pronounced berry flavor.
Bottle shared by Marcus. Pours cherry/fuchsia red with a slight beige head. Aroma is oh so very blackberry with some possible raspberry. Med body or so. Flavor is mostly blackberry but there's a little raspberry. It's tart. It's berry. It's berry delicious. Indeed.
Bottle. Hazy brown, thin creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of very tart berries, funk, jammy fruit. Taste is pepper, funk, tart berries, cranberry juice, oak. Medium bodied, lingering tartness.
duft blåbær rod frugt kant frugtigt funk
smag rød frugttig smag blåbær kirsebær hindbær
On tap at Wicked Weed Funkatorium in Asheville, NC. Aroma is sharp Brett funk (the funkiest of the WW Funkatorium I had), tart berries, berry must. Taste is unripe berries and chalky, sharp cheddar funk. Excellent one.
From a bottle. Pours cranberry red and makes a medium pink head. Smells of read with me and dankiness. Tastes of dark fruits and berries and a beautiful sourness. Yum.
A 500ml bottle, bottled on 8th January 2016. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. It was a cloudy raspberry red colour with a two finger off white head that had good retention and left nice sticky lacing. Aromas of red wine gum berry candy, vinous, oak, earthiness and a light funk. Tastes very lightly sour, raspberries, mixed berries, vinous, oak and slightly funky. Medium to light bodied with moderate carbonation and a dry-ish finish. Overall I tend to enjoy these berry flavoured Wild Ales and this was no different. It was surprisingly not very sour at all, but the oak barrel character in the aroma and taste was quite strong. Definitely enjoyable.
500ml bottle. Deep red with a foamy white head. Flavors are blackberry/raspberry jam and oak with vinous notes. Light to medium body, moderate carbonation, smooth texture.
Pale medium red pour with a thin ring of white/pink head and fizzy .... Aroma is of mostly tart raspberry and sour, along with earthy blackberry ... Flavor is slightly sweet and light acidic with a natural earthy tart, raspberry, blackcurrant and some dry oak with red wine flavors on the back end ... Body is medium and the finish is dry with oak, lingering tart berry and red wine .... solid and tasty stuff .... very sessionable and moderately sour not too acidic
Hazy reddish color with a medium white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Lots of berries, wood, wine, tart skins, sour finish.
Bottle 500ml. Thx Big T.
Pours dark pink/ reddish with low beige head. Aroma is of blackberries, blueberries. Taste is of blackberries, blueberries. Palate: Light-medium body, soft carbonation. Overall: Very nice balance. Nothing overdone.
Blood red with some purple. Creamy head. Smells like raspberry and cherry. Holy sour. But only after the initial raspberry aftertaste. Cherry and raspberryfinish. Wine tart sour and chalky
Bottle. Pinkish purple maroon body, thin white head. Wood, lacto, berry seeds, slight dark fruit in the aroma. Flavor is berry rich and slightly wild on that front, jam, woody sour finish. Medium body.
Raspberry and blackberry fruit with lactic sour. Slight sweet fruit flavors but balanced well by the sour. Maybe 4 of 10 sour. Slight light palate and maybe slight watery for a sour. Overall complex, balanced, sour and well done. EDIT: having at brewery and not thin, nice woody oaky complexity with great flavors.
I was blown away by this beer. I was expecing just a sour, but it’s so complex, so full of different flavours that it was hard to believe. It’s so fruity, tart, refreshing, crips. Soo drinkable. Really like it.
Bottle from Beercraft. It pours a mostly clear deep reddish purple color with a fizzy off white head. The aroma is full with blackberries and minor notes of raspberries. Very faint whiffs of red wine vinegar, bread and funk. The flavor has a nice balance of very tart blackberries/raspberries and some berry sweetness. The sourness is by far the strongest sensation. Dry, fairly light on the palate with solid carbonation. The finish has a little noticeable barnyard funk and a touch of smoky phenol. Not getting any vinegar in the flavor. Overall, very nice.
Bottle thanks to Kurt! Pours clear reddish amber, medium beige head, dissipates to good residual and decent lacing. Aroma is berries, hints of funk, oak tannin, vinous notes. Flavor is quite light on the tartness, oak tannins and red wine blend with forest berries and a bit of earthy funk. Medium body, nice soft carbonation. This is a pretty refined beer.
Pours a clear cherry red with a thin white head that leaves nice lacing. Nose is of cherries and other berries. Pretty juicy and certainly not jammy. Taste is more of the bright cherries and is moderately tart. Vinous with a moderate body and medium carbonation. A very light syrupy feel. A pretty nice cherry sour but kind of far from their Red Angel to me.