New Glarus Unplugged Enigma

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing light orange head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with light notes of wood and grapefruit. The flavor is very powerful with both sweet and acidic notes, as well as berries, wood, vanilla, and grapefruit, leading to a dry bitter end. The alcohol burns slightly on the tongue. The grapefruit note makes me think it is a new style: Imperial Flemish Sour - a flemish sour beefed up with American hops and stronger in alchol.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours a hazy, reddish amber with an off-white head. Sourish aroma with some bourbon. Medium body with sweet’n’sour notes of bourbon and vanilla. Sourish finish. Quite intriguing. Courtesy of JCapriotti - thank you Jason. 291206

RBSG07. From 33 cL bottle. Pours amber. Aroma is citric, wineous and malty. Flavour is malty sweet and dried fruit beyond raisins. Finish is sweet dried fruit. Very nice.

Bottled. Hazy amber colour, not much head. Aroma is coconuts, cookies, alcohol, grapes and some slight touch of caramel. Flavour is sweet fruits, malts, caramel, alcohol and some plum. Though the sweet fruits, the overall is quite sour. Wellbalanced, and quite easy-to-drink. Very pleasant thing! WOW!

Bottle. Clear orange red coloured with an off white head. Aroma of wood, fruits and vanilla. Light sweet flavour of wood, vanilla, fruits and red wine.

Date: March 09, 2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade
Appearance: muddy brown, wispy beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: tart cherry and wood aroma with a hint of chocolate
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich creamy and tart cherry flavor backed by some nice chocolate, good woody cherry pit character
Overall: the best New Glarus beer since the sour brown

Date: July 07, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: roadtrip
Score: 4.3 to 4.5
Aroma: picking sweaty leather in the aroma along with the strong sour fruits
Flavor: incredible rich fruity tart cherry and green apple flavor, the chocolate has receeded into the background to allow the tart fruits to take center stage, the tartness is perfectly balanced with some sweetness from the rich malt backbone

Date: August 12, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: cellar stock
beautiful balance between the sweet chocolate malts and tart fruits,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 10/10; Palate: 9/10; Overall: 18/20
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Drinkability: 10/10
Score: ***4

(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.

Bottle from HogTownHarry drunk at Chris o’s HogTownHarry meet up. Sour up front. Like a Napa Valley oaky aorma, bit of vanilla. Some sourness continues. Good strawberry sour fruit in mouth. Nice pippyness. Then I had to run for the train.