Panil Barriquée (Sour)

I’ve been looking forward to this beer for a long time - and it didn’t disappoint me - even though I don’t give it 4+. Unfortunately it has slipped out of the Top 50 before I sampled it ;-)

A muddy brown beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is lovely sour combined with woody notes. The flavor is quite complex with notes of berries - especially cowberries, wood, and light notes of red wine on a lovely sour background. Very nice - but I’d like higher carbonation, since I think that would bring out even more nuances from this nice brew.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of sk8viking. Pours an almost unclean orangey brown with a creamy, beige head. Tart nose with distinct oaky touches. Medium body, fantastic complexity between acidity, oak and yet still an underlying, caramelish sweetness. Sour to the extent that it challenges and teases my taste buds but never kills them. A true pleasure. 170406

[Bottled, thanks MrWalker!] Cloudy mahogany colour- Aroma of coffee and sour cherries. Tart and really roasty. The body is firm, but given it’s size impressively slender. Wood is evident, as is the vinegary acidity. Falvourwise it’s not far off Cuvée de Tomme, but less potent and more drinkable. A wonderful beer!

75 cL bottle, bordeaux coloured capapparently Johnnys Offlicense in one of the only places to get this in Europe. Pours dark and hazy brown with a redish glare. Light milky aroma and solid fruity. Sweet fruity and acidic to lacto milky on the back of the tongue. Loads of brett, acidity, wood and mild milky notes. Ends fruity and dry brettish. Fantastic.

Bottle 75cl @ the Horse school WSF-08 afterparty in Opstal.
Light unclear medium amber color with a average, frothy - creamy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, sour, berry, woody, red vine notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet, acidic and bitter with a average to long duration, and a dry dry finsh. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (240508)

Bottled. Brownish ruby colour with mediumsized beige head. Sour fruits in aroma with some hints of barnyard. Flavour is sour fruits and earthy with hints of wood. Very nice brew, and definitively the best Italian beer I have had so far. Thanks to MrWalker for bringing this to the ratingsession.

Bottle. Hazy red brown coiloured with a small beige head. Light acidic aroma of vanilla and wood with notes of red wine. Light acidic flavour of red wine with notes of wood and vanilla. Tart finish.

Name: Panil Barriquee (sour)
Date: August 26, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Fest of 26
Vintage: 2005
Appearance: clear dark amber, thin beige head
Aroma: big tart aroma with cherry essence
Flavor: flavor has a huge sourness, nice cherry sweetness balancing it out

Name: Panil Barriquee (sour)
Date: September 12, 2006
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2005
Appearance: hazy dark red, thin fine beige head, solid drippy lace
Aroma: tart cherry aroma with a good woody oak character
Body: creamy body
Flavor: good cherry flavor, perfect tartness mixed with a light bitterness, all tart cherry and tart oak but mighty tasty

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***+/4

Name: Panil Barriquee Riserva
Date: May 24, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ticker Tasting
Vintage: 2008
Appearance: hazy dark red, frothy off white head, bits of drippy lace
Aroma: aroma of tart cherries and wood
Body: creamy body
Flavor: tart flavor is tempered, nice wood, fruity, long bitterness

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4