New Glarus Unplugged Enigma

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Pours cloudy brown with a small off white head. Aroma of cellar, cherries and yeasty funk. Taste of sour cherry upfront and then morphs into woody oak dryness.

12 oz bottle via a few trades (thanks to Sliffy and everyone who sent these!). Pours a hazy dark reddish brown. Small head. Nose is mostly oak and cherries. Tastes like it smells with a bit of vanilla and a tiny bit of roastiness. Medium body. Average carbonation. A very nice late night sipper.

This beer needs some time to breath. Poured into a snifter and gave it a taste after about 5 minutes. Found it interesting, but didn’t care for it too much. After another ten minutes, it really mellowed and was much more balanced. The best American sour I’ve tried. Similar to the Monk’s Cafe/Bios.

To me this beer tastes like apple pie, but now I feel stupid since it is made with cherries, odd. Rich nose of spice and apple, light dryness and earthy notes. I don’t get a ton of wild yeast character out of this, just some earth tones and fruits. Flavor is sweet, very sweet, but changing towards sour in the finish. Slight brandy and oak flavors. Cloudy and muddy maroon in color with a small tan head. Nice beer, but a bit to sweet for my tastes.

12 oz bottle. Pours murky brown and chestnut in color. The aroma is tart apple and grapes with significant musty funk. I thought the flavor really faked me out. It starts like it’s going to be fairly crisp and sour, but it quickly looses this bite and mellow much-to-much if you ask me. You get an initial hint of apple cider, then it moves to dull brown malts and faded caramel notes and faded grainish malt. I love the initial taste but the finish is lack luster. Mouth feel goes from crisp to dull and lingering.

Very nice. not a big fan of sour beers, but this one isnt that sour. Pours out an amber color that is very cloudy. Has a huge head on it. Aroma is very sweet and riddled with cherries. Flavor is sweet with a good bit of sourness to it. Has a nice vinilla oakyness to it. Not bad.

(12oz bottle, thanks kmweaver) Beige head atop hazy amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, sour cherry, wood, bret. Taste is medium sweet, cherry, wood, light bret, mild sourness. Light-medium body.

Neved have had a Sour ale before this. Quite sweet, tastes of cherries for sure, but does have kind of a sour taste to it. Highly carbonated, reminded me of a fruit beer. Still, i dont like sweet beer, and i only bought this to trade it. I love ol NG, but this actually upset my belly after drinking it. I figured i wouldnt like this, but im guessing this being from NG that its a great reperesentive of the style.