Captain Lawrence Barrel Select (bottle)

Formerly brewed at Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Elmsford, New York USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Pours a hazy ruby/amber with a thin tan head. Aroma has mild oak and tart cherry...mild oak...very nice but a hint of generic. Flavor has nice mildly tart cherry...very vinous...mild oak mouthfeel is light and the finish is oaky and vinous with faint cherry.

Bottle. Pours hazed amber with white head. Aroma tart cherry, vinager, Brett. Flavors Bretty, vanilla, cherry pits, balsamic. Thin body. Vibrant. too vinager though otherwise a good sour brown.

Thanks for sharing Fritz! Pours dark brown with a tan head. The nose is big and sweet with deep fruit and brown sugar. Taste is quite sweet, dark malt, brown sugar, fruit, some pepper spice, oak. Medium body.

Bottle 750ml.

[ Courtesy of henrikb ]. Clear medium to dark brown amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, red wine, cherry - berries, wood, oak. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, berries, fruity, wood, dark berries, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20121103]

Angenehm säuerlicher Beginn, Apfel, leicht Kirsche, Holz, breit, harmonisch, übermäßig süffig. 11/12/13/12//12

UPDATED: DEC 3, 2012 Barrel Select Batch 1 (FO/BB), bottled 2/2010. Oaky aroma is ripe with barrel character and soured yeast. Funky, fruity, packed with flavor. French oak is the star here, however, taking this superb brew into the stratosphere with the addition of white wine notes. Highly acetic, puckering sourness; aftertaste reminds me of sour gummy worms. Definitely an American-style sour, and one of the very best examples of the style. Need MOAR!

Pours a clean dark garnet brown with a light tan head. Very vinous and acidic nose, red wine and some charred wood and dried fruit. Acetic with some cherry skins and a moderately sharp palate.

Bottle at Craft Beer Co tasting, many thanks to Mike. It pours cloudy deep amber-brown, with pretty much no head. The nose is lightly acidic, acetone, marzipan, coconut, wood, almond and light sulphur. The taste is medium acidity, balsamic, damp wood, earth, zippy lemon, dark fruit, raisin, mouth-puckering tartness and some underlying sweetness, with a tart, somewhat acidic finish. Medium body and prickly carbonation. Well balanced. Rather enjoyable all-round.

Bottle shared at Craft Beer Co., London, thanks to Mike! Pours cloudy, ruby-brown with a creamy, off-white head. Big tangy wood nose, some vinegar. Good,s turdy sour flavor, lots of wet wood, prunes, nice acidic burn, medium sweetness, other tangy fruits. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Moderate sour burn finish, further tangy wood notes, light dryness, tart fruits, berries. Good balance. Nice.

Had in a bottle very strong oak aged flavor and with very fruity notes in the aftertaste. Not my favorite offering from the Captain