Cascade Noyeaux

Formerly brewed at Cascade Brewing
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Near perfect beer. So complex, unique, and interesting. Apricots? and some type of nut make up the beers blended to make this almost orange and kinda clowdy sour’ish beer. Very enjoyable, bit of brine also. I really hope to run across this beer again, sampled at 5.0. Maybe the best beer I got to sample all day and at woodshop, that’s saying a lot.

On tap at Cascade Barrel House in Portland. No year marked -- simply labeled "vintage." Pours transparent orange, with a big head. Nose is white port, tart apricot, and just a hint of those raspberries. Flavor is superb, except for a mild phenolic note. This one is nice and juicy -- super tasty.

Draft at PFP event - pours a colorful cloudy orange with a big apricot nose. Citrus fruits up front and tart throughout. Sweet apricot and funky fruit finish, somewhat dry. A serious sour that need to be bottled. Thank you Cascade!

sample @ the Denver Rare Beer Tasting II on 9/17/10. golden pour with a 1 finger white head. light apricot sour nose with raspberry. medium tart body with more fruit. soft, smooth and tart from front to back. overall, this is a very well balanced barrel aged fruit sour. I did not pick up on the port barrels too much though.

Draught. Denver Rare Beer tasting. Hazy orange with white head. Aroma is apricots and peaches and all tart and other fruits. Very blended taste never sugary sweet just sour. Really nice.

Again, Curtis offered me a sample of this right from the keg room at the brewpub. Really interesting concept. Apparently an apricot pit has arsenic in it until it’s roasted. I’ve never even heard of someone brewing with such a process but they gave it a shot. They certainly get an A+ for inventiveness. Pours a hazy, bright yellow with a frothy white head. Nose was spicy, yeasty, a little nail polish, juicy fruits. Flavor is loads of fruits, pale malts, grapes. Long finish. Very nice.

Draft @ Uber; beautiful mix of red orange with slight fuzzy haze and creamy white head; muted sour aromas of raspberries, vanilla, oak and nuts; malty with light caramel, prickly raspberries; delicate flavors and creamy sour fruit; like most of Ron’s beers, nothing hits you over the head; creamy raspberries with dry oak and a light fizziness; yummy; smooth tartness, complex mouthfeel; delish

Draft at Uber. Wow, what an amazing beer. Pours a murky and very, very bright orange with a dense and creamy off-white head. Nose smells like you have been punched in the head with apricots at the peak of ripeness that are running down your face and neck. Beautiful fresh fruit quality in perfect harmony, nothing sugary or sharp or overripe at all. Creamy medium body, almost but not quite pulpy, with some lively carb. Beautiful fresh fruit rolling all over the mid palate, with some caramel malt and caramelization notes complementing it. Long fruity finish. Absolutely harmonious and skillful execution of a great apricot payload. Astoundingly good.

Strong tart apricot aroma with toasted white bread notes. dark copper, little haze. superb interplay between apricot and raspberry, back and forth, tannic tartness, restrained pucker. hits me perfectly. This beer is on another level and raises the high bar already set by cascade

Sampled from a growler @ Woodshop. Pours a hazy sunset orange with a small off white ring. Nose was medium tart with some apricots and citrus. Flavor was tart and acidic with citrus fruits and dried flesh fruits. A very nice treat at the tasting.

A: The pour is a hazy, light burnt orange color with no head whatsoever. S: The nose is nice and fruity with plenty of raspberries and apricots, it would seem. There’s a nice lactic acidity and some mild funkiness. T: There’s an interesting sweetness to the beer that I didn’t expect from the nose. The apricots and raspberry flavors seem to pop up again along with quite a nice sourness. M: The beer has a medium body and low carbonation lending this one a slick mouthfeel. D: Cascade really makes some great sour beers and this is no exception. A fantastic wild ale that I hope to try again at some point.