 Rciesla (674), Brick City, New Jersey, USA
May 12, 2008 Updated: Jun 18, 2008
Bottle, thanks for another share Brian. This is 8 years old. Aroma flavor is cherries, raisin, vinous, woody, and sour. The beer brings your cheeks together with its pucker. Really good but probably past prime.
Stine (1268), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Jul 6, 2008 Thanks to Zac for the impossible gem. Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Rusty orange-red hue with a thin-spotted head grey-beige. Cinnamon on green apples and pears in the nose, under a limp wet raft of wood. Swift funk and outhouse stink. Butterscotch, mildew, pithy citrus seeds. Dusky and dank. Undeniably old, while with one foot in the grave it’s still spitting out some mean funkiness and unreadable phenolic sweetness. If it fails the senses to a certain degree, it’s without doubt intellectually satisfying.
Zesty, sandy oxidized malt and quiet cinnamon-citrus tartness in the flavor. Very dry and very wooden. A corked red wine mineral texture is somewhat pervasive, but it’s yeast-driven, earthy, and calm. Prickling of citrus and tropical fruits lingers under that mineral texture soothingly. Sourdough and hawaiian bread thicken up the body with the muddiness of the yeast, and the characters of tart fruits gather tannins and acidity. The yeast really seems to open up the flavor as it slowly introduces itself toward the bottom of the bottle.
Medium body is gorgeously brisk and dead-grass dry with some white wine tannins. Lengthy finish with lots of cheesy, dirty mineral earth and floral dryness, like a Sauvignon Blanc. Stellar in its own way; overaged, certainly, but its character is memorable, and still has a wild, but gentle edginess about it; a knife dull to the touch but still ready for action. Drink it now.
holdenn (1075), Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jul 1, 2008 750 ml bottle consumed on 5/25/08 thanks to pantanap for sharing this. Wow, I truly never thought I’d try this one. But once again these Chicago guys make the impossible beers appear in my glass. Kan rocks
Pours an orange amber with a creamy beige head. What an abundant funked nose. Barnyard funk, cheese, horse blanket, wheat, and floral notes. Sweet and funky velvety nose with coriander and anise spice in the finish. The carbonation is a bit fizzy. Velvety light sour flavors that start off sugary sweet with oak tannins, oxidized malts, and tart fruit. Sour grapefruit resin in the finish with the oak tannins. This could be more sour/funky and less sweet but at its present state is is a bit off and most likely past its prime.
pantanap (659), Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 27, 2008 750ml bottle from BrianK. wow, i can’t believe that i’m having the opportunity to try this!.....poured a murky medium orange grown witha creamy slightly off-white head..... musty cobwebs, oak, citrus and pears make up the nose. it had a nice mild funkiness that wasn’t too assertive and kept it quite mellow.... flavor had very light tartness, an abundance of fruit but this was soon to be taken over by some sweet sugary malt. the carbonation held up well with this one considering the fact that it is 8 years old. overall, i wish it could have been more funky and sour but given the age, it was a little too far past its prime.
drewbeerme (1624), Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 26, 2008 750ml. huge thanks to pantanap for sharing this very rare gem that I thought i’d never try. pours cloudy golden with foamy white head. aroma is sour cherries, very oaky, vanilla, and funky. wonderful nose. flavors of sour cherries, bretty, caramelized dough oxidation, very oaky. the flavors come off a little dulled. still really good but cleary past its prime.
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