Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Marcos, California USA

2009 375 bottle Very strong flavors and hints of sour. Fruity aroma. Pours very dark. Considering the alcohol content it is very smooth. Not a strong alcohol taste.

12th July 2008. Sour cherry beer. This really needs to be not over cold as a little warmth brings a mellowness to it. Sour cherries reasonably well balanced by woody tones. A dry beer. Okay but not quite the cherrry nirvana I was hoping for.

A somewhat flat looking 3 gets a nice bump to a four due to the good lacing. Dark brown and murky pour. Scent is sour cherry, quite appetizing. A little bit of wood in the background, but not much else. Taste is a little odd and difficult to describe. The sour character from the scent is certainly there but this one goes through three or four transformations across the palate. Sour first, wood second, sweet cherry and leather turning back into sour. Very good. This one is stopped from being an out of this world brew by a slightly lower than optimal carbonation level.

Dark, dark brown, with a beige head that quickly dissipates, leaving no head. Aroma is of sour cherries, funk, wood, plum, skin of peach. Flavour is massive, a fresh, puckering tangy sourness. Obvious cherry and fruit notes, chocolate, wood, a slight vanilla note, some alcohol, quite vinous, quite like a red wine. Some tobacco. Very juicy, surprisingly not especially dry. Carbonation is very sparse. A complex, surprising brew, not what I was expecting at all. Enjoyed it a lot.

Sample @ BBF Night of the Funk. Pours a hazy brown with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, funk, and the oak/vanilla characteristic so well-known in barrel-aged beers like this. Taste is sour cherry and dark fruit up front, with the brett, oak, and vanilla bringing it together at the back. The beer is sublimely smooth throughout, a phenomenal drinking experience.

Bottle at the release of Flaming Fury. Pours a clear still orange brown. Acid, fruit, nice sour notes. Nice and crisp carbonation with some plum and prune flavors. Crisp acid and light funkiness. Finishes long and crisp.

Bottle from Rollinhard. Pours dark brown, hazy with a thin tan head. Tart cherry, vinegar, bourbon barrel aroma. Taste is more of the same tart cherry, dark fruit, touches of bourbon barrel. Thicker than more sours and very drinkable, Awesome brew.

Bottle shared kindly by darkguardian. Pours a translucent brown with a creamy tan head. Cherry, malty caramel, tart with some light funk holding it all together. Opens up to wood, vanilla, very puckering. Tart, smooth and dry.