SFtaster (18), San Francisco, California, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Feb 7, 2010 On draft @Toronado. My first sour beer experience- now I know what everybody is raving about! I don’t know how this stacks up against the competition, but I’m happy to give New Belgium a big thimbs up. This tasting has inspired me to check out other sours.
mjmcend (32), USA
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 10/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Feb 6, 2010 A wonderful example of the sour red ale. New Belgium does its roots proud with this beer. The sour apple is balanced perfectly. An eminently sessionable sour (if such a thing could be said to exist). Quite frankly, I am in love.
 thewolf (5957), Kolding, Denmark
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Feb 6, 2010 Bottle. Can’t remember who traded me this, but thanks to you!
Vintage 2007
Pours deep, wonderful red with a fairly large, but rather fizzy white head. Disappears rather fast, but leaves the great deep red colour to really play in my glass. Aroma is splendid. Lots of oak, cherries, funky and a wonderful underlying strawberry note. High, prickly carbonation and a good, light and breezy mouthfeel. Tart, fruity flavour, oak, lambic notes, peach, cherries - and some fructose. Dry, tart and super oaky. Top-class and probably the best American sour ale I’ve tried.
mattmc1973 (322), Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Feb 5, 2010 I’m relatively new to sours, but wow, this one grabs you! On tap at Local Option in Chicago. Dark ruby/brown with off-white head. Aroma is very sour and strong vinegar. Taste is more of the same, some bready malt and funky yeast, but mostly sour vinegar that puckers the mouth and hits you in the back of the tongue. Crisp medium mouthfeel. Not bad!
arminjewell (342), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Feb 3, 2010 Pours dark brown with thick tan head, aroma is full of tart cherries and apple. Taste up front is some sweet apples and vanilla working into a nice tart and sour apple finish. Not experienced with sour ale, but this one was good!
Mora2000 (370), Dallas, Texas, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Feb 2, 2010 Pours dark brown to black with a tan head. The aroma is strong oak and vanilla with some tart citrus and tart dark fruit. You also get some chocolate. The flavor is tart fruit. Lots of sour cherries. You also get oak and vanilla. As the beer warms, it becomes a more lactic sourness as opposed to the sour fruit that was in the beer earlier. Thin-medium mouthfeel and low to medium carbonation. A truly outstanding beer.
brenn79 (251), Idaho, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 29, 2010 22 oz. bottle- Pours reddish black with small thin head, aroma is tart and pleasant. the flavor is tart like a Granny Smith apple, and mellows out after it sits in the glass. I am fairly new to sour ales, my only other experience is 2008 vintage of The Dissident, but seems pretty good to me.
Trev (930), Lakeville, Minnesota, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jan 26, 2010 Bomber: brownish red colour with a quick head
aroma is vinegary sourness, woody. some cherry
flavour is very tart funky, green apple, cherry. read someone mention rhubarb and I can totally get that as well. Woody finish.
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