Harpoon Old Rustys Sour Red Rye

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Draft @ BCTC. Pours a hazy, orange-amber color; patchy off-white head. Bandaids, tannic red fruits, and dusty fruits in the aroma. Medium mouthfeel: bandaids, red fruits, and toasty malts upfront; relaxed carbonation; lightly tannic, fruity and mildly tarted sour ale. Flabby and under-developed. Medium finish: toasty malts, lightly tannic red fruits; nicely dry.

BCTC 2009. Pours a deep amber with a thinning head. Aroma is sour and funky- woody, pedio-cherry pie, with horse funk, earth and leathery rope. flavor is ligth cherry funk and sweetness, earthy, rye, spice, caramel malts, slick funk an d tart- lactic in the finish with some wild mint in there as well.

A reddish brown ale with a super thick light moka head. A very nice intense sour cherries in aroma, lambic, lactic, very surprising. In mouth, a good sour ale a bit too much butterscotch, but overall, classic, with sour cherries, espom salts. Tap at BCTC 2009.

Draft @ BCTC Pours a hazy amber with a small off-white head. Nose is sour malt, little else. Flavor has some dark fruits, wood, and some mild tartness. Pretty much what I would expect from Harpoon.