Cascade The Vine

Brewed by Cascade Brewing @ Raccoon Lodge
Style: Sour Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Reddish orange pour. aroma-vitamin C, fresh, tangy sourness, white grapes. Taste- this is an awesome sour. 100% in my opinion, this rivals any sour beer I’ve had. Intense sourness with a great fruity, not sweet, backbone, oak barrel, white grape juice. Complex and well-balanced. Taste is incredible.

A heavily carbonated gold body with an off-white head with great lacing. A mild tart aroma with a faint vinous character. A small amount of funk as well. A lightly buttery body with an increasingly tart flavor with each glass. The grape juice is well mingled in with the oakiness from the barrels.

750 ml bottle courtesy of the brewery or riversideak. Pours a fiery orangish gold, decent haze, bubbly lively carbonation with a huge bubbly offwhite head that cakes and laces fairly well. Dark orangish gold, aromas are nice fruit sourness, some barnyard and hay, with the grapes clearly the front runner, white wine fruitiness, light oaky elements bring in some toast and vanilla, a decent floral element with some of the golden base shining through in cereal and slightly sweet notes. Initial is a nice tartness, sour green grapes, white wine fruit dominance, oak and vanilla, subtle sweetness with decent oak, sourness, light funkiness. Smooth mellow white grape juice soured out, with a light booziness, decent bitterness on the back end. The beer coats with a decent lactic acid, sourness, and white grape and malt sweetness behind, funk, oak, and malts blending in well, decent tannins on the backend. I enjoyed this, the alcohol hiding well and the sour grapes growing in waves ahead of the other elements, bitterness/tannins on the backend. The lactic and sourness really coat further into the bottle. Go Hawkeyes!

Thanks to hopdog for sharing. 750 ml opens to a  large pop but no gushing.  Pours a lightly hazy effervescent bubbly white head.  Aroma of grapes, light sourness, floral, vanilla, light oak and a touch of caramel.  Flavor of grapes, moderate bitterness, oak and light tartness.

750ml bottle acquired in trade with bu11zeye (thanks!). Poured a medium amberish color with a smaller sized off white head that quickly dissipated. Aromas of grapes, woodiness (that came out as the beer opened up), vanilla, and some funk. Tastes of the same grapes, woodiness, citrus, and the same lighter funkiness. Lighter tart finish.

750ml bottle @Pauls Gathering -pours an off white ring for a head and hazy gold color. Aroma is sour/tart, light/medium malt. Taste is sour/tart, light/medium malt, spice/wood.

25.4 oz bottle. Foggy amber with garnet highlights. A brief head leaves a bubbly white ring. Nose is sticky sweet white grapes, vanilla, sour apple and cherry with light funk. Medium body with a refreshing tingle. Taste is sweet then sour woody grapes, bright citrus peel and peach skin. Wonderful complex frutiness balanced by a sour pucker.

Bottle at Paul’s tasting. Pours a hazy orange with a thin white head. Strange medicinal note, mint and maybe sage. Big crisp acidity and sourness, medium bodied, touch of sweetness and funk. Finishes dry and funky with some lingering acid.