Hermitage 1 Door Flemish Style Sour Ale

Brewed by Hermitage Brewing Co.
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
San Jose, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle from BevMo. Pours clear copper with a thick beige head and a sour malt aroma. There is a carbonated sweet and sour pale malt flavor that tastes a little off.

Pours an iced tea color with a red hue. Aroma is of cherry, mixed with a fruitty sweetness. Taste is mildly bitter, with a cherry drenched refreshingness. A clean refreshing taste, that dissipates as you swallow the beer. Overall a decent beer for the style, quite refreshing and easy drinking.

wow, had to try one of the lowest rated sours in the world since its made in my area. pours decent enough looking. aroma is meh, has a few fruity sorta cranberry notes and such. the taste is like some sort of old flat spritzer water poured into a glass with some cranberry juice backwash. the body is liek water, almost thinner, except a little bit drying and then with a bad aftertaste that lingers and leaves a slight coating. a bit offensive overall.

transparent amber, thin cream ring. Light cream, paper, oxidation, and huge diacetyl. Flavor is diacetyl, cardboard, light bile, slick oil body, bit of cherry sourness. Yuck.

651mL thanks to beerandblues2. I saw this in California two months ago and scrolled past. Well here it is again. A flat, clear red pour. Nose is sweet grenadine syrup with toffee and diacetyl. Taste is mild diacetyl quickly overtaken by stomach acid- probably the rarest but most god awful brewing flaw that exists: acid and vomit character. I’m about to throw up just writing this review having to remember how gross it was. Easy 1/10 for taste and 1/5 for palate.

Bottle. Pours clear tawny with a medium, creamy light tan head, medium retention and good lacing. Aroma is diacetyl, caramel malt, light fruit notes, and not much else comes through over the diacetyl. Flavor is diacetyl, lightly sour fruits, malt dominant and a sweet finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.

Bile, vile, nasty shit sour, touch of nail polish. Raw sugar. Drain pour. Undrinkable.

Bottle. Pours clear copper with thin, fizzy white head; short retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is corn, butter popcorn, acidic notes, and apples. Flavor is a confusion of flavors muddled together. Light body, medium carbonation, and low warmth.

Really nice deep red pour with a tan head. Aroma is vinegar, some slight cheese, cherries, dark fruit, a bit of band-aid. Flavor is sourish with kind of a sticky palate. Behind the sour are some fruit flavors. Not excellent but for $2.49 it's more than I was expecting.

22 oz bottle. Reddish amber with an off white head. Aroma of cherries, band aid and vinegar. Flavor is acidic vinegar and cherry with an overwhelming phenolic taste. Had to drain pour this, I couldn’t get past the band aid/phenolic character, at least it was cheap.

I think they had a bad beer and decided to remarket it as a sour! Im not sold they made thison purpose. It lacks even being sour.