 JohnQPublic (387), Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jul 29, 2008 Draught @ Ebenezer’s. Pours a slightly hazy gold with a hint of orange, no head. Aroma is very vinous - white grapes, slightly sweet, with a slight hint of vinegar. Taste is soft sourness, bit of vinegar and white grapes, with the vinegar sourness getting a bit more pronounced right before the finish. Finish is dry, fruity, white grapes come out a bit more to complement the softening sourness. Soft, slightly pillowy carbonation and light body.
BoBoChamp (1334), Gent, Belgium
Jul 27, 2008 75cl, exclusive brew with white grapes, from Geers Oostakker, complex, balanced, cloudy, nearly no head, good brew
Angeloregon (2024), Portland, Oregon, USA
Jul 22, 2008 On tap at Puckerfest at Belmont Station--Poured a thick goldenbody wtih a small white head. Sweet vinous nose. Grapes, apples, and pears with the tart, sour esters. Finished dry and smooth. Yum!
MakeItDrinkIt (66), Portland, Oregon, USA
Jul 14, 2008 Nice shimmering gold color with a scant white head. Aroma is tart, lightly sweet, fruity and a definite soured edge. The flavor is a big soured musty grape punch in the front that crisps out quite rapidly on the palate leaving a pleasant lingering dry wasteland on your tongue... nice!
mybestfriend (261), Gothenburg, Sweden
Jul 2, 2008 2006 75 cl Bottle. Pours a pale yellow colour with a white, fast-disappearing head. Aroma is funky barnyard, horse and an almost nonexistent note of grapes. The flavour is dry and sour with notes of funky barnyard, horse and pure lemon juice. (where are the grapes?). Saint Lamvinus was better.
azlondon (656), Fribourg, Switzerland
Jul 1, 2008 Appearance: Cap&Cork. Cloudy light orange. Just a little bit of head.
Aroma: Sour, lemony. Some fruit.
Taste: Quite sour, lemony. Awful aftertaste.
Info: 750ml bottle, 21/8-2007, 181/500
Beershine (2678), Hue, Vietnam
Jun 25, 2008 Draught @ Ebenezer Kezar’s. Hazy peach color, headless but with visible bubbles in the body. Fruity nose with lots of crisp autumn apples, white wine, and loads of sour grape candy. Clean, mild, barely carbonated with a flat, thin finish. This is the way fermented grapes should taste.
Stine (1380), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Jun 24, 2008 Vintage 2002. Springy apricot orange hue. Dank basement cheese and sweaty sock aroma. Hard water. Ancient balsamic vinegar. Brown sugar, white grapes, pears providing a rounding sweetness that puckers tart. A surprising habanero-like grassy heat singes in the back, brought back with complementing touch of flowery tea that has some of the same, green earthiness, pleasingly cooled.
A blistering white grape tart flavor. Familiar and compelling lemon juice acidity; fruit always forward and funk reserved, though the leathery, somewhat quiet tannins seem to aptly fill the gap. Strikingly sophisticated touch. Cheese and mineral dryness in the middle, with an evasive, dusty sweetness scampering about; suggests white chocolate powdered with spice, strangely, and the vibrancy of wheat. The sourness of the grapes seems to have only grown more pungent and sharp after six years, but the layers of flavor beneath have a settled complexity about them that’s really rich and intriguing. A meaty blend of spices gathers force and really underscores that depth as the beer warms; dusty and dry, woodsy and rich; paprika, ginger and cayenne. Pleasingly startling, and the funk intensifies freakishly.
Palate is firm and spritzy; a concentrated, tangy acidity. Finish takes a while to dry out, first showing a bursting pineapple tartness, then a grainy white cheesiness, and finally a hard water and yeast minerality that’s pretty viciously rough and abrasive. But that furious dryness is what I love about a lambic finish. Begins as a juicy, delicate and fruity foray into the softer tones of wild yeasts, but ends with a pretty devastating whirlwind of funkiness.
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