Arbor Cellar Select Special Reserve

Brewed by Arbor Brewing Company Pub & Eatery
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Orange-brown pour with a thin light tan head. Bitter woody aroma with fruit and funk. Funky and creamy sour flavor. Slight chocolate flavor with a bitter finish.

Thanks bvc! 2004 bottle. Sexy balsamic nose, poopy, cherry and sexy. Clear ruby brown. Amazing complex progression of woodsy balsamic tart lemon, poopy oak. Amazing and privileged. Beautiful.

750, capped. Thanks bvc! Pours a clear burgundy amber with no head or lace. Big tart funky raspberry nose. Creamy medium body with sparkling carb. Delicious combination of basement and raspberry.

Lacto. Funky nose definite old ale base fruiting apples barnyard wood barrel notes. Caramel apple green apple is there. Amber pour nice clarity no head. Flavors of tart green apple funk strong red ale wood barrel. Dark feuit soft carb. Good stuff!

750ml bottle. 2005 Vintage. Poured a deep and cloudy amber, almost brown color, with a very small sized head. Aromas of vinegar, funky, wood/oak, and cherries. Tastes of cherries, wood, funk, vinegar, and vinous. Acetic.

bottle thanks to bu11zeye. poured brownish with no head. aroma was cherry, caramel, oak, funky, and some acetone. flavor was cherry, caramel, oak, pepper, and what seemed to be nail polish remover (no eric, i havent been drinking the stuff). body was light and dry.

Bottle provided by bu11zeye...at his own house. Thanks again Markus. This seemed a little sloppy to me. This had more vinegar, raw wood and acidic bite than expected. Flemish brown, not really. Just kinda...sour. Cool concept though.

Dog Days of Summer Gathering, thanks Beerlando. ’05 bottle. dark brown, no head. Vinegar bomb. Lots of acidic and vinegary presence in this one, light fruits, skinned/puree like dark fruits (berries), very acidic and sour with the oud bruin elements blending nicely with the barrel aging. Could be nicer if it did not have that much vinegar notes, still a good beer to share.

750ml bottle, 2005 vintage. The pour yields a clear, dark, coppery-brown body with virtually no head, showing just a pencil lead thin line of micro-bubbles at the edge. There is no lacing to note. The nose is aggressively acetic and vinegary, to the point of being borderline harsh, with pungent notes of fermented figs. What little sugars remain from the brown caramel malt, along with a touch of tupelo honey, dull the nose just enough to keep it from being downright offensive. Flavors are over-the-top acetic, triggering a puckering, electric reaction from glands at the back of the mouth. The vinegar component is just too strong, hinting at a cross between cider and balsamic, and a bit of acetone doesn’t help. You get the sense of some indiscernible dark fruits in the background, but the insanely tart, old oak barrel influence dominates any subtleties that might hide within. Like the rest of the beer, the dry, flat, almost lifeless palate is a major letdown. This is a tough one to get through. Way too much time in the barrel, I would guess.

(750ml bottle, 2005 vintage) Pours a murky brown body with a spare off-white head. Aroma of vinegar, barnyard, mustiness, acetone, and cherries. Flavor of cherries, leather, caramel, vinegar, lacto, and grass.

(750ml bottle 2005 vintage thanks to bu11zeye) murky deep orange-copper with no real bubbles to speak of. Nose of moss, cellar, caramel, and vinegar. Taste of vinegar, very salty, wood barrel, this is not well done. Reminds me of salad dressing too much.