Odell The Meddler Oud Bruin

Brewed by Odell Brewing Company
Style: Sour Red/Brown
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle sample at a tasting at LiBira Pub in Haifa. Thanks eyes_wide_shut and YK23. Pours brown with a beige head, aroma of plums, caramel, red wine, fruit sourness, tires, flavor is sourish with some roast, nice acidity, dried fruits, cherries, red wine, wood, medium to full bodied, great

Tasted @ RBBWG 2013. Courtesy of Travlr - thank you Gene. Pours hazy dark orangish brown with small tan head. Smell is a blend of wood, dark fruit with nice sour notes. Taste is nice sour, wood, dark fruit ending dry crisp & woody. Body is light and carbonation is active. Overall I really enjoyed this beer.

19/I/13 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG 2013 - BB: n/a (2013-38) Thanks to Travlr for sharing the bottle!

Bit cloudy, red brown beer, small beige to off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: dusty, caramel, some vanilla, bit fruity, grains, bit sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sour, lactic, red fruits, citrus, bitter, tobacco, earthy, wood. Aftertaste: red fruits, overripe fruits, some vanilla, hint of caramel, sour touch as well and a little hoppy. Now that’s more like it!

(Draught and 750ml bottle) Pours a cloudy dark brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of cherry, chocolate, raisins, toffee, and vanilla. Flavor of chocolate, cherry, lacto, dates, brett, and oak.

I love sours but I found this one out of balance and not so enjoyable. Lots of lactic sourness and acidity, with plenty of wood and some cherry fruit. It revealed some levels while it warmed but the sour was too lactic for me. Bottle.

This beer is ok it has that wild yeast off flavor much like a lambic it was a very sour finish to it

Brown colour, slightly hazy, off-white head. Aroma of wyeast brett, caramel and red fruit. Sweet flavour, sour touch, fruits and prunes. Finish caramel, sour fruits, funk and malts.
Not really an Belgian Oud Bruin, but it does have some similarities. Not bad though, not bad at all.
(From 75cL bottle @ RBBWG II, 2013. Courtesy of Travlr. Thanks for sharing, Gene!)

Pours dark brown with some beigeish head. The aroma is dense sour vinegar and Belgian yeasts with some lightly toasted grain. The rich darker grains barely come through a robust vinegar tartness and layered Belgian fruitiness. Flavors of dark berries and some lemon peel with light orange citrus come through with a bit of bitterness. The yeast carried a lot of flavor that is hard to sort out. It is naturally sweet with the grain and and lively carbonation but between some light earthy herbal hops and the sour/tart yeast it leaves a drying grainy sparkling tart palate. Great complex sour that is easy to drink but I find myself sipping it as it is a rich treat. It loses nothing with temperature.

Thanks to Travlr for sharing this one. 65 cl. bottle sampled @ RBBWG 2013. Brown reddish beer with a beige head. Nose is lots of the typical USA brett / sour malt profile, cherries, sour dark fruits, toffee, sour wood. Taste is similar USA sour malt / brett profile, cherries, prunes, wood, sour dark fruits, toffee, sour fruits, sour barrel, quite enjoyable, tang, spices, touch of red wine wood,… sour malt sour body. Quite enjoyable American sour. Not really an Oud Bruin for me or at least, I do not feel like this is what is understood under a Oud Bruin traditionally over here, profile-wise not method of production. Doesn’t matter, it is a yummy beer & a nice sour.

75cl bottle sample @ RBBWG 2013, courtesy of Travlr. Brune/acajou, col beige. Arôme présente ce beau bouquet de barrique, suivi par un malt caramel laissant aussi des notes résiduelles de boisé entrecoupées par une effluve de fruits noirs. Palais est agréable avec une belle balance entre barrique suivi par ce côté distinct de brune flamande, alternant entre fruité noir, et un léger malté caramel, chocolat, pointe de biscuité suivi de suite par le brett et le houblon ponctue la fin de bouche avec une légère amertume.