Cascade The Vine

Brewed by Cascade Brewing
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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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.

750 cc from Capone’s, and CAH. Pours turbid canary toward orange with minimal white head and heavy champagny carbonation. Pours yeasty spicy, very fruity, with grapey notes, hops, citrus, and a great complexity. Tastes champagney, oaky, earthy, with heavy charonnay influences, and a finishing tartness, A lot of fruit here, chardonnay, tartness, and oaky notes, all integrated extremely well. This one is a true highlight of 2010 so far, and is absolutely incredible.

Appearance: pours with a minimal musty head then immediately disappears. Can hear the crackling of acidity as the head dies. Orange and amber sap hues. Slow stream of bubbles from bottom of glass to top.
Nose: sour and funk. Raw fresh polished leather. Dandelion pollen and flower pollen in general. White flower petals. Plum and pear skins. Raw apple pulp with stems for sweet and tannic. Grape dregs pressed, pulped, and steeping in their own residual juices; grappa. Honeycomb and cereal gains. Kiwi and starfruit.
Palate: ohmygawd! Sweet than chewy, a little meaty, then a long tart tannic finish, leaving my body tingling from the tip of my tongue on into my chest. Plums, white grapes, pears, kiwi, starfruit, all green and tart. Coconut shavings. Love the chewiness of pulped fruit flesh in the back which mingles with honeyed breads. Sticky lips. Must, leather, and old houses follow the finish and taint my breath. Amazing.
Final Thoughts: wow and wow. Put a Belgian label on it and no one would know the difference. I personally count myself super lucky to live in this fantastically evolving and growing world of real beer with real taste. Diversity is the spice of life.

On tap cascade barrel house flight glass one it was yellow straw haze Lemon, a little leather it was very sweet to my but a great blonde sour I think I was a little intimidated by my next 3 beer in the flight sang rouge 09’ just tapped lemon honey quad from the barrel and apple pie it was great i want it in bottle

750ml bottle. Pours a copper blond color, topped with a thin layer of off white bubbles. Aroma of white grape, sweettarts, lactic acid, peach, apricot, spice, and yeast. Fruit hits the palate first; with apricot, peach and grape in nice unison. Honey, oak, orange, kiwi, and lactic acid are in harmony in the background. Really beautiful balance between sour and sweet, like a wild ale with some mead characteristics. I really enjoyed this.

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Split with James and Dallas. Pours a bright, hazy, bubbly champagne golden with a modest, thin, lacy white head. The aroma on this brew is insane: strong notes of sour white grapes, grape Jolly Ranchers, champagne yeast, peaches, oak, vanilla, and very subtle hints of malt. Medium bodied with an intensely refined, supportive palate that transitions the tongue seamlessly from the huge fruity swell up front to the silky-sour finish. This is quite a unique brew. Excellent sour.

A Mes rate. Bottle thanks to our Ken.
Hazy yellow brown with a very effervescent and short lived white head. Not the best looking beer in all honesty but where I was let down on first impressions, the rest has EASILY made up for it. Superb snout. Full of tarty fruit and barrelly madness. A slight sweetness underpins it beautifully well. The flavour is even better. My god, this is a special one. The white wine comes through really well and gives a stunning base for all the tarty stuff to chomp into. Plenty of zing round the palate. A really juicy start develops the sourness as it goes. There is an almost tangerine type note too. It’s an absolute beauty. The tart and sour character swiftly diminishes in the finish and the grapes and other sweet juicy stuff comes bursting through. Epic length. Masses of character. Oh, where the bloody hell is the alcohol? I could down this with no trouble. Actually I could do the whole bottle. It drinks like a five percenter at most. Gloriously refreshing, full of interest and about the most finesse I have experienced in an American beer. Absolutely spectacular.

2009. Pours orange-tinged apple juice into a snifter. Bright white head quickly recedes to hug rim. Sour apple aromas. Crisp with sour apple and grape upfront turning to a tart lactic finish. Nice.

Hazy gold-orange. Lovely nose with alot of fruit, peach, bruised pear, barrel funk, tart. Rich sweet and tart flavor, also fruity. Just really nice.

Bottle… This beer rocks!… Murky apricot-colored ale with a small, fizzy, white head. Fantastic creamy retention. The nose is totally funkadelic – chardonnay, barnyard, fallen wood, sharp cheese, lemon and fuzzy fruits. Full-bodied and creamy with active carbonation. Moderately sour, bready, lightly bitter and very fruity – apricot, lemon and a whisper of sour cherry. Tart, crisp, mildly woody finish. Totally blown away by this world class brew I picked up in little old Vero Beach, Florida… life is good.