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Alpine Beer Company Chez Monieux

Alpine Beer Company Chez Monieux

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A Sour Ale brewed by
Alpine Beer Company (CA)

Alpine, California USA

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923.63/5.03.62/5.0Special5.8%44Snifter P  Stats

Commercial Description:
A Belgian Lambic aged in red wine barrels. Generous amounts of the tart montmorency cherry were added after 12 months of aging. Sour from lactic and acetic acids produced from special wild yeasts. A delicious tart, sour treat.

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 hellomynameis (743), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20

May 10, 2008  
Light red almost pink without much head. Sour cherries fill the nose with a bit of funk. Very lactic without much sourness until the after taste. Cherry is present, of course, not really notable otherwise.

 Odeed (1491), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
Oct 8, 2008  
dusty rose in color with no head.aroma is slightly funky with some cherries,oak,and orange.flavor is the same with a slightly medicinal aftertaste that i did not care for.


 darkguardian (193), Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/103/514/20
Oct 7, 2008  
22oz bottle from Cheeseman at one our tastings (working through a backlog here). Pours a clodu pink with a funky puffy pink head. Tons of cherry taste with a slight sourness and nice notes of funk. A lot of oaky vanilla notes in this. I liked this more than most but its nowhere near as complex as some other sour ales from the west coast.


 IrishBoy (2161), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 6, 2008  
750ml bottle shared by Odeed; Nose is lightly funky with tart cherries, and oaky woodiness; Clear dark pink with a small pink-tinged head; Flavor was cherries, light tartness balanced by light sweetness; not very tart, would be better tarter!


 Rciesla (871), Brick City, New Jersey, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/517/20
Sep 27, 2008  
Bottle in a trade. Pours a red amber body with almost no head. Cherry woodiness and a nice sour acid aroma. Flavor is tart sour cherry Wood maybe some brett and finishes very dry. Awesome beer.


 ajm (369), California, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/103/512/20
Sep 24, 2008  
Bottle from Joey @ SouthBay. Sampled this summer. Time has softened my initial experience which was not that pleasurable. I have warmed to sours, though, and would almost try this again. Full aroma of cherry and funk with flavor to match - lemon and yeast as well. The funk takes over the tartness and rather subdues the fruit; for me, the barrel is overtaken as well and this hurt my enjoyment.




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