Sound Brewery
Poulsbo, WA
Available: WA
Sound Brewery is the dream project realized for five like-minded individuals with a common goal: To make and distribute the types of beers that we’ve been buying, searching for, imagining, brewing and enjoying for decades.
ABV: 10
ABW: 7.96
Color: n/a
Bitterness: n/a
Original gravity: n/a
Neat package; die cut label, nifty neck label, and screen printed logo, makes big promises and then delivers. Design features a monk offering a beer to a nun begging the question, “what’s indiscreet about that?” Gorgeous deep gold bordering on cooper. Sensational nose boasts sweet tones of a Belgian triple with the hop bouquet of a double IPA; foral and sweet, ying and yang balance with an emphasis on the yang that makes this a better beer for food than most triples. We savored it with Brussels sprouts, mussels cooked in a more traditional triple (the hops would make the mussels bitter,) and a salad of Belgium Endive.
A clear and amber promise is confirmed with eloquent and sensual fruity aromas from yeast and hops. Flavor upends assumptions of what a Belgian character can be. Warm and sumptuous alcohol emerges flamboyantly. Hop bite is satisfyingly bitter but not quite transfixing. It’s the roller coaster flavors and aromas that takes one for a ride. Radical ruse becomes a sentimental memory by the time you finish savoring this truly unique and magnificent specialty. Well done Mr. Brewer Person. You make our day.
Founder of Merchant du Vin and the Pike Brewing Co., Charles Finkel is a pioneer in the marketing of craft beers in America.
Author of the New Complete Joy of Homebrewing, founder of the Great American Beer Festival and a Beer Examiner at www.examiner.com, Papazian is a leading voice in beer and brewing.
