Marble Sephira II

Brewed by Marble Brewery
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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on tap @GABF-pours yellow/gold with an offwhite head. Aroma is sour fruit. Taste is very sour fruit, sweet light malt.

On tap at GABF. Pours with a hazed copper body and a lasting off-white head. Aromas of tart cherries, funk, pedio, cola, chocolate, earthy. Flavors are earthy, acetic, vinegar, cherries, caramel, light spice. Lively bubbles, dry.

(Draught) Pours a clear golden body with medium off-white head. Aroma of mustiness, cherry, caramel, balsamic, leather, and barnyard. Flavor of cherry, caramel, lacto, herbs, and wood.

Draft at GABF. Sour/Wild #100 for me. Pours a hazy orange with a soap bubbled head that manages to keep a ring. Nose is quite sour, lots of lacto and then some brett funk, earth & pineapple? Cherry notes as well, no vinegar. On tasting, the tartness translates into a bigger brett character than anything else. Crisp and dry, very brett forward. Most of the malt profile is washed out. Pretty decent beer, for sure.

sample at GABF on 10/1/11. murky orange pour with a small white head. nice sour nose with light oak. big round sour body with light fruit. tart finish.

UPDATED: DEC 14, 2011 Draft @ brewery tap, Santa Fe. Warm hazy brandy color. Mainly flat. Aroma of Rodenbach yeast, wine barrels, and sweet balsamic. All this carries over well into the flavors. Adding nice sour cherry, sour grape to the profile, this is very tasty albeit a tad thin. Very welcome brew in the lineup. Rerate from later batch at abq brewery tap. Is tasting much livelier and more full-bodied. Carbo is more alive. The wood in the finish is clean and tasty. The sweet ish rodenbach flavor is fun and so is the moderate abv. They do great with this one 4, 7, 4, 8, 15

tap at the brewery-well, this beer eluded me the last time i was in Albuquerque, but i was very pleasantly suprised that it was back on tap! What you have here is very much a clone beer of rodenbach/la folie, which isnt a bad thing, but nothing really original. pours ruby hue with some slight cloudiness with a small fizzy white head. nose is sour beeries, tart with a hint of vinegar and wood. flavors are tart lite sour slight wood with a long sour finish. lots of wood comes out more as the beer warmed, almost cedar-like. not and overly complex sour but beter than some of the otehrs i have had from midwest breweries. probably the only sour made in NM though, so its cool to have tried it! I bought a growler and brought it home just to find out that it was leaking all the way home......:(

UPDATED: DEC 14, 2011 Amber-brown. Big Rodenbach aroma with lots of wood, deep fruit. Tart and woody palate, with a slight balsamic character. Good beer, and remains similar to Rodenbach throughout the entire experience. Can’t go wrong making that beer.

Served in a goblet at the brewery’s Abq. pub. Dark ruby appearance, semi-opaque, with a thin ring of a head. Sharp tangy fruity aroma. Flavor is really dry and sour. I feel a slightly chalky texture in the aftertaste. I’ve had dry, sour wines made from fermented apricots and peaches (no grapes), and this ale is remarkably similar. And indeed better, because in this brew there’s a sensual layer of malt sweetness under the sour yeast flavors, and beyond that is the distant echo of strident hops... a truly complex and contemplative brew, to be sipped and savored. Yes.

On tap at Marble Brewery. Hot damn. I asked the server what Sephira II was and he responded that it was a sour beer. I said I’ll take it. He said "are you sure? try a sample first". I said ok, drank my sample and said I’ll take it. Then I had a second glass. Then I came back the next night for two more glasses. I may go get another tonight. Long story short this is f*ing good. Pours a beautiful ruby red. Low carbonation-it’s basically spot on. Not terribly funky, but it’s got some character. Reminds me of Supplication to some extent. I’m impressed how well balanced everything is in this. It’s plenty sour, not uber-puckeringly sour, but definitely more sour than the Cuvee Rene I had just prior. Anyway, this beer has some of everything and too much of nothing. A little bit vinous and vinegary, a little bit of socks, a little bit of hay, a little bit of cherry. Well done Marble.