New Holland Barrel Aged Blue Sunday 13 (2010)

Brewed by New Holland Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Holland, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Vintage 2012. Pours brown with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, oak, sour, vanilla and dark fruit. Flavour is sour, acidic, dark fruit, caramel, grapefruit and oak.

Bottle @ Odense Smagning, May 2012. Pours clear ruby amber with a small white head. Nose is vinous with lots of oak, berries and caramel. Pretty American. Slight scent of balsamic vingar. Dry finish. Good.

Sample from the odense crew, thanks. Vintage 2012. Unclear dark amber body with a small white head. Aroma is oak, dark fruit, caramel, tart, berries. Flavor is sour fruit, oak, caramel, dark fruit, vinegar. Quite nice.

Vintage 2012. Chestnut colour with a small off-white head. Classic American Sour aroma of dried fruit, caramel, fresh oak barrel and mild balsamic vinegar. Sweet and sour flavour of caramel, fruit and vinegar with strong oak character.

Originally reviewed: 1/12/11. 22oz bottle, vintage ’10, poured into a chalice. Pours a dark ruby-tinted mahogany with a thin beige head on top. The nose is full of sour pale fruits, apple, white grape, musty wood. Very nice nose. Begs me to sip. Moderate carbonation; mellow finish. At first sip this reminds me distinctly of New Glarus Unpl. Enigma. Seriously. This could be a clone. Mushy old apples, slight funk, sour grapes, hints of oak. Lots of flavor on this one. The finish is short and somewhat of a disappointment. What tarteness is there, disappears quickly. This is so easy to sip, dare I say gulp, that the alcohol sneaks up on you. Beware. This is my first of the style, and not sure how true-to-form it is, but I enjoyed it. I liked Enigma, and I like this. Good beer.

Bomber, pours clean purple/ruby w/ thin rimy off-white head, heavy balsamic aroma with some lemon, lightly nutty and oily w/ tart clean finish, very nice

Pours dark amber with a thin off white head. Aroma is sour and tart. Flavor is sweet, fruity notes, sour, and funky in the finish.

Bottle. Vintage 2012. Dark copper pour with a short, fizzy tan head. Aroma is sour fruit notes, sweat, wet leather, damp earthiness and soft vinegar notes. Taste is sour fruit, tart berries, wet leather, sweaty socks, damp earth, wet wood and grains. Body is light-medium with a dry mouthfeel, soft prickly carbonation and a lingering acidic tartness. Finishes with more sour fruit notes, malt, wheat, unripened fruit, tart berries, leather and damp woody notes.

Ive had two bottles of this now, the first i described as oak juice... the second bottle was far superior... Decent tart aroma lots of oak vanilla funk light berry... Deep amber color with a small white head and light lacing... Fruity tart oak vanilla berry big flavors... lively medium body dry finish... nice nice beer... Definitely worth coming across...

From a bottle poured a dark amber color with almost no head. Light tart malty flavor with a lingering aftertaste.