Breakwater Biere du Jour

Brewed by Breakwater Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Oceanside, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Draft @ the brewery. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy honey sour woody aroma. Fruity malty woody bretty sour flavor. Has a fruity malty woody bretty finish.

Amber in color with a white head. Nose is a bit acetic and vinegary. Some red wine, berries, and miscellaneous red fruit notes. A bit of grass, lemon zest, and cherry. The flavor has a decent raspberry character, lots of vinegar, and some cherry. A bit of other fruit, some grape, wine, and grass. Maybe a bit of lemon zest, too.

Tap @ brewpub. Clear light red/brown pour with a white head. Aroma is cherry and wine-like grapes with underlying light tart. Taste is a bit rough with light cherry and corse, wheat. Watery mouthfeel. Okay.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden dark brown to amber with a small white head. Aroma is citric and light toasted malty, rather authentic flemish brown. Smooth fruity, citric and light sour. Fruity and lingering citric into the far finish, vague underlying sweetness.

Pint at the brewpub. Solid sour red ale. The aroma has clean sourness akin to a vinaigrette along with hints at oak, dark fruit and a higher than usual woody hoppiness. Palate is nice and rich. In the flavor I get that tasty sourness with a lingering papery hop dryness. There are notes of raspberry vinaigrette, oak, fruits, biscuits. Really impressive take on the style with a subtle American twist.

Clear dark amber with an off-white head. Lots of rough grain, biscuit, light tartness, caramel, and cherry. Meh ok.

Clear medium brown with a fizzy white head. Light sour and malt aroma and a nice crisp green apple and sour cherry taste with a smooth finish. Very good.