4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
$24.
Pours a brownish/pumpkin hue, the head atop was a color I’ve never seen atop a beer..almost reminding me of carrot cake frosting but more orange. The nose was like no other smell of any beer i have had...cherries, cake frosting, solvent, permanent marker, orange liquor, compost fruit pile, sour.
even somewhat vinious.
lower carbination than expected, lower than needed.
thick feel and astringent, almost rindish yet not bitter. Certainly a decomposing pile of acidic fruit...fruit that harbors its own carbination and starts to sweat. Warming throat coating.
Certainly cherries and other things going on here...maybe even marzopan.
Certainly one of the more interesting ales I’ve had of late. Certainly.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle with friends. Great amber pour with slight head. Smell is a nice mix of tropic fruits with vinegary sourness. Taste is vinegarish on the mouth, but not too much. Mixes well with the fruity sourness. Pretty dry. Nice sour.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared with friends. Pours a deep Brownish red body with no head, minor lacing. Aroma is cherry, vinegar, citrus fruits, and wood. Mouthfeel is thick and syrupy with notes of vinegar and sour cherries upfront with dark fruits, prune and raisins , wood.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
potent, bitter aroma, bitter citrusy flavor, amber appearance, lightly carbonated, sampled in a pint glass
4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle #276. 750ml. $26.99 at Premier Gourmet, Buffalo. I’ve been sitting on this bottle a long while now, I hope it’s been worth it. Pours a deep amber with little to no head. Aromas of sour fruit, some funk, very pleasant. The taste is much more sour than I had imagined it would be - this is almost a lambic level sourness. Very tart. Deep and complex. Very little carbonation, and I can’t detect any alcohol... 11%??? Smooth, sour, funky fruit balanced out with just a hint of sweetness. This is an amazing beer, and one for the ages.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
[4196-20111216] Bottle. Wood smoke cherry aroma has a cheesy foot note to it. Hazy, dark pink red body with a foamy off-white head. Mildly sour flavour has a long cherry aftertaste. Medium body. Really good, drinkable. (7/3/8+/4/16) 3.8
(Vintage 2007; w/ Bobsy, jerc)
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at home, out of my Hennepin glass. Pours cloudy russet-tawny, thin off-white head, spotty lacing. Nose is cranberry, sweat, funk, oak, vinous notes, some light spice. Flavours are leathery, with dried berries, oak tannin, and stale red wine. A very well-balanced sour that left me wanting just a bit more...
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 ml green bottle poured a clear reddish brown with a small lingering tan head. Aromas of alcohol, plum, oak, pepper and light apple. Palate was medium bodied and crisp with a dry tart finish. Flavors of oak, red wine, spice, barnyard and plum with a crisp dry tart lingering fruity finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle @ ratman’s, courtesy of ratman. Huge thanks! Cloudy, reddish orange appearance with an off white head and some sediment. Tangy, tart, red vinous, dark berry, acetic aroma. Vinous, tart berry, cherry, acetic, funky flavor. Moderate warmth. Fun sour. Thanks Ratman!
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared by Ratman. Pours clear tawny with a small, fizzy off-white head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma is caramel and cookie malt, alcohol, dark fruity esters, lactic and acetic with oak notes. Flavor is malt, lactic and acetic, fruity esters, low hops with a dry finish. Medium body, warmth and carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
2011-12-16. Ruby red brown body with a small beige head. 3+ quite fruity flavour, sour cherry with mild wood character, pleasant modest sourness throughout, light cherry pit like touches. Modest aroma of cherry pits, light wood and alcohol that grows as you go, muted cherry. Smooth average plus palate. is lightly carbonated. Rather good, and less boozy than other vintages I have had - the alcohol is barely noticeable on the palate. 2007 Vintage Bottle From Premier Gourmet, Buffalo
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