2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draft, BCTC 2007. Pours a murky, orangish-brown color; off-white head with good retention and tight lacing. Dense, moldy fruits and sugar in the aroma. Medium mouthfeel: overripe apples and some cinnamon; light spice, but mostly bland overall. Medium, apple and overripe fruit finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
hazy red amber pour, thin small bubbled white ring. Nose is woody, phenolic with heavy sour Brett b cherry, but synthetic. Flavor similar, dry, not a yeasty, bit acetic with heavy cherry pie and finishing in estery pepper and grape skin.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a clear reddish brown color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish fruity cherry aroma. Sweetish fruity and slightly tart sour cherry flavor. Has a fruity and slightly tart cherry finish.
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours brown with a light head. Not a ton of aroma except for faint hints of malts not even the expected cherry. If you concentrate really really really hard you might get a faint subtle dusting of cherry flavor. You could also say the same about the brown ale. Finishes with a bit of the malt. I wasn’t expecting such beer minimalism.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(BCTC, draft) Soft medium beige head atop lightly hazed mahogany body. Aroma is medium sweet, cherry, some sourness, light tin. Taste is medium sweet, cherry, light wood, diacetyl. Not much sourness. Light-medium body.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
bctc 08. I cant beleive this was one of the first beers for them to kick. Pretty bad stuff here. Pours a decent looking deep amber fruity red with a thin lasting head. Aroma was cough syrup, wierd slick cherries- and Diacetyl! ech- diacetyl in a fruit beer- gross. More syrupy cherry juice in the flavor mixed with butter and a weird slick finsih. Meh.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
BCTC. Wow, this was bad. Dull, lager-like aroma, very vegetal. Crap. Sour cherry? Are you kidding? Nothing in this even comes close to showcasing cherry, or sour, or even any fruit. Blech.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark brown-red pour with a white head. A little bit of funk on the aroma, but otherwise dominated by cherries. Some creaminess as well. Sour cherry flavor with cream and spice, perhaps cinnamon. Woody finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
not oen of the better ones from ba. there was a tiny hint of cheery but the sourness took away from the whole beer. medium bodied for such a dark beer, finishes with a strange aftertaste.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Not a pleasant beer. Off tap, it was very sour and vinegary. Luckily I was just sampling while I was waiting for the bartend to search for an Achel Trappist (no luck). Very little hint of cherry, woould have wanted something a bit more sweet since it was trying to approach a lambic I presume. Extremely cloudy and messy pour in the glass. I’d rate this just below the pale ale in my book on their selection of beers. (maybe since I was having a "winter seasonal" in May, I think it went south)
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