Alpine Beer Company Ichabod Ale (2007)

Formerly brewed at Alpine Beer Company (CA)
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Alpine, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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(Bottle) Pours a clear orange-amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of brettanomyces, pumpkin, cinnamon, and oak. Flavor of sour, barrel, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin with a soda-like carbonation in the mouthfeel.

Bottle (2007) shared by someone at Oakquinox. Pours with a hazy copper hued body with an off-white head. Aromas of sour, funk, spice, suntan lotion, pie spice, and red wine. Nicely funky. Flavors are very sour, light acetone, very acidic, vinous, red wine, acetic acid. Dry, lively bubbles, sour and acidic finish.

A: The pour is a slightly hazed red amber color with a small off-white head. S: Still a fair amount of spice notes for a beer that’s 3 years old. Nutmeg and allspice really come through with some lactic tartness but it’s not really all that powerful. Some notes of dark fruit (mainly cherries) are present as well. T: A more pronounced sourness to the flavor and this beer is plenty dry. Again, lots of nutmeg, allspice, and perhaps even some cinnamon. A mild sweetness, but mostly dry, tart cherries. M: The body is medium with a moderate level of carbonation and a nice dry finish. D: I’m glad to have finally tried this beer. Definitely an interesting one, but I really liked it. Not something you see everyday, if nothing else.

Bottle shared with Miver. Tart cherry aroma. dark amber body with thin head. brown ale body with a tart cherry flavor, followed by subtle pumpkin spices hints of yeast. Light pumpkin -sour aftertaste. A great unique sour ale

[Bottle, thanks Guerde!] Pours hazy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is very nice. Pumpkin mixes well with the sour component. Fresh cut wood, rice pudding, leather, blackberry, paint, and slight alcohol. Taste is quite sour, lots of tannins, especially in the finish. Malt, very mild bitterness, and apple. Progression is sour, then pumpkin/tannins, followed by malt and spice. Medium thin mouthfeel, slightly dry finish that is long. Very unique and enjoyable beer that has a lot going on. Thanks again, Andy!

Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Muddy amber color; small head. The aroma is light, mixing some fruits, vegetables; but also a very light and nice sourness, Bretts. Dry mouthfeel, citrus fruits sourness, light yeasty caramel flavor the final is medium sour. It can be a fake lambic, but quite confused and not convincing.

(bottle from Beerbill) Pours out a dark amber with a thick off-white head that lasts and leaves nice lacing on the glass. There are also abundant floating chunks of something that are present when held up to the light. The aroma is downright perfect and extraordinarily complex. The aromas start out with everything that should be there, such as the pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon, and a lot of barrel as well. As this warms however, the smell begins to move all over the place, with stranger scents of cracked pepper, sweet rice pudding, leather, wood finish, fresh paint, earth, and even a bit of orange zest. The flavor was not as complex as the aroma, but the tastes were great anyway, with just a hint of sweetness to begin with, that is followed by a really dry, salty, vinous, and tannic finish that lasts a long time. There’s a bit of pumpkin here also, but it’s subdued by the more prominent barrel character, and the spices are perceived upon exhaling. The sourness is relatively low on the spectrum for sour ales, but that really works well for this beer. Mouthfeel is medium and the carbonation is very lively. An amazing beer. Thanks Bill!

Bottle 65cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #13. ]
Unclear hazy medium red amber orange color with a average, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry - fruity, sour beery. Flavor is light heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090612]

Bottle thanks to Naven. Pours a murky brown/amber with a thick light tan head. Aroma of allspice, pumpkin pie, pumpkin crust, cinnamon, nutmeg, sweet molasses, and sour wood. Flavor is sweet initially, sort of oaky/woodsy and sour spices. This was pretty interesting with the sour ale/ pumpkin spices. A little wearing/sweet by the end but decent. 7/4/7/4/14 (3.6/5)

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with notes of brettanomyces, lacto, wood, and citrus fruits as well as lighter notes of hops. The flavor is sweet combined with an acidity and with notes of malt and lemon as well as lighter notes of wood, leading to a tart fruity finish. The acidity burns lightly on the palate.

#13 - Amerikaner Blind-Smagning 12-Jun-2009 hos Papsoe. Bottle. Ginger, soapy, beetroot, red berries, nice malty, fruity, wood notes, sourish, citrus, light hoppy, caramel, brett, lacto, cola w. citrus. Wierd but very nice.