Green Flash Black Freak

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Draft @ BT. Black pour. Wine(grape) sour aroma, and malt notes. Flavor is a nice mix of vinous sour and oud brune flavors. Similiar to SFTO(w).

Draft. Pours a bruin body with a tan coffee head. Sour pears with a light roast y malt tones. Vinous and winey with some sour bruin notes. Reminds me a bit of a CL brew in terms of its sour context. NIce.

Pours just like madrugada obscura, quite a similar beer. Nose has incredible depth, tons of layers of roast and tart and sour and funk. Taste falls a tad thin compared to the nose but still amazing complex and tasty.

Hooray for experimentation. This one worked for me. Pours dark brown, close to black, with a beige/tan head. Funky aroma, almost tart fruity with some roasty malty hints. The flavor is funky and roasty with some almost vinious fruity notes. Different.

Draught at Blind Tiger. Black with big lacy tan head. Aroma is big brett funk, barn/hay, hints of roasted malt. Taste is shocking and contradictory, ’freaky’ if you will. Big sour funk in front of subtle but assertive roasty malt backbone. Funk juxtapose against roasty malts. Super alive on tongue, definitely wild. Well done.

A: As the beer’s moniker would indicate, the pour is black with a thin layer of brown foam and some sheets of lacing. S: The roast comes through strongly, which seems to make sense, but soon after a lactic acidity and some dark berries fill the nose. A touch of funk and some oak round things out. T: The roast is quite dominant on the palate, as is the acidity. I can’t quite tell whether that acidity is from the malt or the bugs, but it is quite sharp. The fruit flavors are a bit of a sweet and sour mix of berries. M: A highly carbonated beer which further elevates the perceived acidity. The body is perhaps a bit on the light side of medium. D: A really unique beer. I was not completely sold on the flavors, but I found it to be so intriguing that I kept going back to the glass.

Tap at Blind Tiger. Pretty good. Looks like a stout: Dark brown pour, medium beige head. Aroma holds some funk and brett and very mild roast. The flavor has a bit more stout character, with some burnt malts. A little sour. Some faint fruit notes. A unique beer.

On tap at Stone Oaquinox. Black frothy tan head. A little bit of acidity. Not sweet nor dry. Pretty nice. Hint of smoke. Malty.

On tap at Stone Oakquinox 2010. Dark hazy brown pour. Toasted bready malt, fruit notes, hops, some light sourness and spice. Different beer, it’s alright.

Tap @ Stone Oakquinox. Pours a hazed dark brown / black. brew is fairly hoppy with a good amount of roasted malt.