 kmweaver (1813), Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
May 14, 2008 Updated: May 15, 2008
100th sour rating! Bottle @ Brickskeller’s Lupulin Reunulin event. Pours a bright, bold honey-orange color; solid, creamy white head with fine-bubbled lacing that coats the glass; a gorgeous pour. Loads of citrus, grapefruit, intense tartness and funk in the aroma; medium-to-high levels of acidity; mouthwatering; fruit, funky and dry; nicely, densely sour. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: grapefruit, tart citrus, high levels of mouthwatering acidity, following the nose; toasty oak and loads of funk; gorgeous stuff, and not simply the bone-dry funk and citrus of other highly regarded gueuzes: there’s plenty of generous fruit here (grapefruit and tropical fruits) coupled with perfect, impressively drinkable levels of sourness, acidity, and dryness (without being bone-dry and overly puckering). To summarize, what’s the last rare beer Aaron gave a 4.4 to? Certainly nothing I ever brought to a tasting. Awesome, authentic stuff, in the same grouping as Blauw and Cable Car. We pilfered as many samples of this as we could. Lengthy finish: citrus, grapefruit, with lingering funk and sourness.
lb4lb (1281), Austin, Texas, USA
Jul 26, 2008 Bottle from Sinners club.
Pours a glowing orange color with a filmy thin white head. Smell is hugely tart and very potent and gueuze like to me, but with lots of grapefruit and a touch of well placed sweetness not usually found in other good sours. Taste is very sour and tart. Citric, lemony strongly grapefruit juice like and moderately funky with a very nice and bright fruity flavor. Quite sour and flavorful, yet still highly drinkable. Easily one of my favorite sours and lived up to the hype for me.
m4rest88 (15), Beverly Hills, California, USA
Jul 25, 2008 The beer’s aroma is malty light breadlike smell with a hint of pineapple. It has some citrus lemon citrus hops which gives it a pleasant aroma.
It starts off with a small fizzy head and the head lacing is good. The longevity, though, is mostly diminshing. The body clarity is murky and has small body paticles witin the yellowish orange hue. The initial flavor, to me, is sweet and the beer finishes off relatively sour.
It has a light body and a dry texture with soft carbonation on the palate. The finish feel is moderately to harshly sour.
DaSilky1 (1528), San Diego, California, USA
Jul 22, 2008 A cloudy yellow/orange concoction with thin white suds atop. Sour & Funky orange layered nose with a dab of tangerine zest and spurts of musty solvent. Flavors rejoiced in thick funky sourness balanced by a nice citrus background. My main concern here was the almost utter lack of carbination and a somewhat grainy unclean finish...but other than that, which for all i know could have been the tap line, it was stellar.
Rogueone (311), I F&ckin’ hate those guys from, Ohio, USA
Jul 22, 2008 Bottle sampled at mgumby10’s thanks to TheCheeseMan: As far as appearance goes, this beer was a vibrant orange reminiscent of fresh-squeezed orange juice. Aroma is musty citrus, some light spice and wood. Oak or birch. A very, almost too, drinkable sour -- lemon rind is present, funk is present, no heavy sugars here, in fact, on the dry side. Sour funkiness clings to palate and the roof of your mouth for a full mouthfeel that just really makes this brew stand out from other sours. I think this could be the beer to convert non-sour drinkers for sure.
Snojerk321 (907), San Diego, California, USA
Jul 21, 2008 7th taster @ Stone Sour Fest 2008. This was the #1 beer of the day for me. Poured a cloudy burnt orange color. Tons of sour apples and citrus on the nose. Oak was abundant in both aroma and flavor. An awesome finish that was crisp and dry. By this point I was getting a bit tired of tasting sours, this beer gave new life to my palate and a new appreciation for the style.
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