Inland Empire Barrel Aged Sour Ale

Brewed by Inland Empire Brewing
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Riverside, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Clear reddish Amber hue with tiny white head. Aroma is tangy lemons, vinegar. Taste is sour upfront with tart lemons and balsamic vinegar. Finishes with some oak. A bit thin but pretty tasty.

Funky aroma. Golden in color with a white head. Nice and tart (green apple)...reminded me of the green plums I had in Turkey.

Clear golden with a fizzy white head. Nice sour green apple aroma and taste with lemon notes and an astringent dry oaky finish.

Growler. Cloudy yellow pour with a small off-white head. Sour vinegar, oak, earth, lemon, and lightly funky. Meh ok, not a well made sour.

A: The pour on this one is a light amber color with a rocky white head. S: Damp oak and slight earthy and musty funk notes. Lightly lemony with notes of sawdust and a light malt note on the back end. A hint of watermelon rind and dust. T: The sawdust character is certainly intense on the palate. A light lemon sourness as well as a hint of watermelon rind (which gives a slight bitterness). Lightly funky with a fair amount of must, leather, and grass. M: The body is light to medium with a medium carbonation. O: This was very homebrew-like in the sense that the beer sort of seems like the brewer didn’t really know what they were doing or didn’t mean for it to be sour.

(Growler) Pours a lightly hazy golden body with a small off-white head. Aroma of oak, vanilla, subtle insecticide, earthiness, and pine. Flavor of grapefruit, lemon, vinegar, some sulfur, and oak.

Growler thanks to someone at Sourfest (have since seen this at Beachwood BBQ). Pours with a hazed yellow body and a small white head. Aromas are earthy, vegital, vinous, soil, tart and light chlorophenols. Flavors are sour, vinegar, acetic acid, chlorine, light malty. Warming slightly. Thin and a bit watery.