 fredandboboflo (440), East Setauket, New York, USA
Apr 24, 2008
Bottle, Batch 2. Gusher! 1/4 of an ounce wasted, damnit! This transformed into a lovely, useful large head; long-lasting and constantly aromatic, purty, whatever you want. Very intriguing aroma, starting off very winelike, then sour red fruits, then intermittently porter charcateristics, coffee, chocolate, roasted malt. Flavor is even more intriguing: these individual characteristics can be pulled out individually, but when taken together, looking at the forest before the trees, this brew presents itself as a sour ale with dark, roasted malt. Very, very interesting. At the end of the day, I can’t say the flavors necessarily always mesh, and maybe selfishly I kind of wanted the porter to show it’s face more, which it did sometimes, faded, teased again, faded... Certainly I can’t drop it below a 4, if certain things had happened I may have gone higher, but the bottom line is a very interesing, very unique, and of course very good, brew.
Miver (376), WillowStreet, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 20, 2008 750ml bottle sampled side by side with Rum barrel and Bourbon barrel. Thanks Axilla. Spewed when opened. Poured cloudy brown in color with a small tan head that lingered longer than the other ones. Aroma of vanilla, light fruit and a little roast. Tastes had some lacto sourness, vanilla, oak, red wine notes, with a little smoke and roast. My favorite of the 3 bottles.
Beershine (1207), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Aug 20, 2008 At Vero. Who brought this one? Cheeseman? Thank you so much!! It was one of my favorites at the tasting. Dark cloudy, bloody brown with tan head. Incredible nose yields itself fully and willingly. Funky. Chewy. Salty. Oaky, Incredible. Complex, layered. Smokey. Teaches me lessons about wood character. Love it.
JMFG (1086), Florida, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Courtesy someone @ RBSG and, later, TheCheeseMan. Chestnut brown color, light tan head. Great aroma - oak, wine, licorice, tobacco, light smoke, very light roast. The wine and light roast really go together well. The taste has more red wine character along with some roast, but the porter characters are under the oak and wine. Love the aroma on this one.
DA (2376), Portland, Oregon City, Oregon, USA
Aug 18, 2008 RBSG 2008. Interesting beer that picked up a lot of character from the wine barrels, very sour and tanic, good amount of funk that builds grape tartness. I’m not sure it blended all that well with the original beer, the smokiness didn’t work well with the sourness for me, this turned into almost a sour brown.
smith4498 (332), Miami, Florida, USA
Aug 16, 2008 Bottle courtesy of thecheeseman. Pours black with tan head. Sour aroma with vanilla, oak and smoke. Flavors of oak, smoke, vanilla and funky sourness. The aging in the wine barrel really adds a nice touch of wine to the taste. Very nice.
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