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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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933.63/5.03.62/5.0Special5.8%43.8Snifter 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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 pepsican (766), the beer wastelands of, Iowa, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20

May 4, 2008  
Pours pink with a thin white head. Very tart aroma with cherries underneath as well as butterscotch. Flavor was more tart cherries, butterscotch, and just the slightest bit of funk. Finished very acidic and refreshing. Very nice!

 trokini (883), San Diego, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Oct 15, 2008  
Pours reddish copper, lots fo carbonation, and a flat white head. Vinuous cherry nose, some oak and malt, almost like a cherry cobbler. Pucker-type sour as opposed to the bretty-dank sour. Good blalance of the sour cherry and sweeter malt, tempered by the oak and vanilla flavors. A bit medicinal at times, but not enough to ruin the beer. Always a treat with Alpine.


 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 (195), 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 (2165), 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 (910), 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.



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