2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20750 ml bottle served in a Duvel green tulip. Blend # 5, bottled on 5-09-2012.
A: Pours a burnt orange color with a yellowish head forming the pour. It has some nice body to it as it recedes to a thick cap and collar. Nice sheets of lace are left down the sides of the glass.
S: Some light cherry tartness with some yeasty sweetness to it. Sweet fruit juice is also present in the nose. Definitely missing some lacto sourness in the nose. A touch of oak is present on the nose as well.
T: Sweet fruit juice, maybe some blueberry and cherry, with a very subtle tart note. Some light lemon grass with a odd celery note to it. Oak tannins with some vanilla sweetness on the finish with a pale malt body.
M: Medium to light bodied with a prickly carbonation level. Clean, semi-drying finish.
O: This was entirely disappointing. The beer itself wasn’t bad, but it’s very poor representation of the style. No biting sourness and very little tartness in the taste as well. Not worth the price.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 10-03-2012
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
light fruit sour aroma,orange, hazy, white foam, light sweetness, lightly sour, light body, soft carbonation, creamy, nice sour berries finish.
4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
White head, quick to disappear. Sour aroma, not too sharp sour aroma. Copper colored and a little murky. Tart sour right up front that carries through with a little bit of malt body. Overall an excellent beer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Shared this bottle at a local tasting, thanks to rayl101 for sending this a while back ago! Pours a cloudy light brown with a thin head, the aroma is pretty funky with some fruit and oak, the flavor has a nice cherry fruit touch with some light sourness, not overpowering by any means, light mouthfeel, I really dug this stuff.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
A - Hazy red-orange with a finger of frothy khaki-tan head. Fades normal.
S - Sour grapes, cherries, and other fruits, oak, vanilla, funky Brett other sour yeasts, orange and lemon zest, biscuity malts.
T - Sour cherries, grapes, other fruits, oak, vanilla, funky Brett, lactic acid, other yeasts, orange and lemon zest, bready malts.
M - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth with a tart and sour finish.
D - Good fruity sour beer. Nice balance.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle Blend 4 - bottled 5-8-2012: Amberish, a bit hazy, moderate frothy head, sandy, nice lacing. Soft tart nose, pale woodiness, a touch of cherry. All of this is fairly subtle. Soft and subtle on
the tongue. Similar to the nose. Yeah, soft example, one that may be a good starter for someone into the style. Body and mouthfeel are moderate. Slightly dry finish. Good stuff, thought it would be a bit
more brutish, but as is (subtle), its still tasty.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Orange pour from draft. Crazy grape and tart taste. Hate the style but easy drinking. Mehh
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
(Blend 1, bottled 04-26-2012)Hazy dull honey brown complete with a noisy short lived crown. Sour drool inducing aroma, so much tropical fruit, mostly pineapple, papaya, malts are leathery. This style normally doesn’t do it for me but either this is really good or sours are growing on me. Sour fruity tropical punch I tell you. Light body with sour punch....... drinks easy. Flavour is light it seems mostly just a tasteless sour but if you pay attention you hit leathers, pineapple, tropical everything. The dryness reminds of hibiscus flowers. This is good the end.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bomber. Hazy orange with an off white head that thins out. Malty lychee, tart cherries, acedic, malty and sour, some lemon zest. Moderate carbonation and body, fruit and malt, sour and an odd aftertaste. I don’t know what it was but this combination of flavours just didn’t do it for me and I actually drain poured the rest of my glass after trying a few times to drink more.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Light amber coloured and hazy. Has a white head, lasting. Acieid aroma, berries, light bread. Acidic flavot too. Dry texture and heavy carbonated.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Huge thanks to GT2 for saving a bottle of this for me! Clear amber pour. Nose and flavor bring outrageously delightful tangerine, earthy brett, vinous barrel red wine style tartness, cheesecloth. Very tart on the tongue. Tons of fruit character mixing with a complex sour profile. Outstanding.
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