Cascade Sang Royal

Brewed by Cascade Brewing
Style: Sour Red/Brown
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle @ The Trappist. Poured a dark ruby. Nose is cellar, acidic tartness mixed with unripe fruits, oak and some wine. Flavor is a sharp acidity, chardonnay, some sweet cherries, tart fruitiness, plums and sherry. Finishes dry with some sweet fruit undertones. This is an amazing beer. Refreshing, tart and easy drinking. I went through 3 bottles during my visit.

Bottle. Ruby-brown beer with a nice light tan head. Cherry aroma with mustiness and tartness. Tart/sour flavor with cherry and earthy malt. Medium bodied. Tart/sourness lingers with a nice cherry note. Great beer with good sour/cherry balance and a little richness from the port barrels thrown in.

Bottle shared at a BeerAdvocate tasting. Dark opaque reddish-brown color with a beige head. Tart aroma of sour cherries, oak, and vinegar. Flavor more of the same, very well-rounded with a nice, not over-the-top tartness, vinous notes, and barrel flavors. Lively carbonation and medium body with a tart finish. An excellent sour overall.

Draft@ Uber Tavern.Hazy brown with a tan head. Citrusy, sour vinous aroma with mild caramel. Medium body with light carbonation. Easy drinking fruity flavors of tart lemon and cherry, with red wine and sour wet wood. Good brew.

On tap at Uber’s Cascade Night (and Brouwer’s Sour Fest). Pours dark reddish brown with a huge frothy beige head. Tart aroma of oak, xmas tree, and cherry, with a little bit of cheese. A little bit of caramel malt pokes through by the finish. Another great one from Cascade, but I liked the Sang Noir slightly better.

On-Tap @ Bailey’s Taproom and poured into a 12oz. Snifter glass. Pours a dense burgundy with a frothy, light reddish-tan head that slowly dissipates into a medium ring around the glass. Aroma is tart cherry and cranberry and maybe a big of sour funk/yeast. This beer is fairly tart with cherry and cranberry, flight bitterness and is most certainly mouth puckeringly sour. Its a light, crisp effervescent beer and is extremely drinkable and gets a bit hotter as you sip it.

UPDATED: MAY 2, 2010 Draft for Sourfest 2009 at Brouwer’s for SBW. Pours a dark amber brown and light head. There’s a great sour fruit and nicely balanced wood. A bit fizzy, but otherwise clean. Much more complex as it warmed. This is another great one from Cascade. (10/5/9/4/18 4.6) Rerate Bottle as part of epic sour tasting with callmemimckey on 4/29/10. Pours medium brown, little off-white head. Nose of cherry, lemon, orange, and a touch of pine/oak. Flavor is very dry citrus and sour cherry with a dry oak finish. A little wine like tannins on the finish as well. ABV hidden well. An exceptional sour that held its own against others on that epic night (8/4/9/4/17 - 4.2)

Draft at Uber. Dark purple. Nearly black. Dense, tiny-bubbles gray head that lasts and lasts. Big plum and tart vinegar nose. Creamy soft, gently carbed body. Flavors just dance across the tongue. Amazing, amazing stuff.

Lots of port barrel characteristics in the nice. Some tart fruity notes, and a good deal of oak. Pours dark reddish brown with a nice big soft fizzy head and lots of pretty colors when held up to the light. Very oaky, lots of port barrel, soft fruit/cherry undertones, and then dry wine notes in the finish. Tart, but very oaky, lots of port. Dry lingering acidic finish. Extremely well carbonated and vibrant that works to distribute the tart/dryness throughout the palate. I am still looking for you Goose Island hat guy! Mark my words...

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2011 Rich dark plum colored body, mostly clear after a careful pour from the bottle with a faint pink/tan head on top. Intense burnt oak, currant and cabernet/syrah wine character up front. Prickly and peppery, somewhat fizzy, but well-conditioned and well-matured - the port barrel character seems to meld with a general red wine/currant/black cherry/plum flavor profile but it’s by no means a detriment to this beer. Exceptionally zesty and alive. Wonderful stuff. ...

...and then two years later it sucks. what happened?