Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

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

Draft at Brouwer’s Sourfest. Opaque dark brown with honeyed toffee highlights. Big tart red wine vinegar and oak nose. Mild creamy body. Sharp tart vinegar attack. Oak and funk and vinegar mid-palate. Somehow this completely ties together into a lovelyl, harmonious, approachable, even quenching beer. Lots of dark fruits. Phenomenal.

Sinner’s Club bottle; Nose of cherries, very light tartness, a molasses note, oakiness, and a very slight butteriness; rusty color with a very slight beige head; flavor is cherries, brown sugar, molasses, and very light tartness.

On-tap at the 2nd Anniversary Party. I had 3 pints. Let me tell you, way too much. Pours dark red brown with minimal to head and no lace. Smells like dark, sour cherries with some dark maltiness as well. Tastes of dark sour cherries and dark sweet malts. Sweet and sour with a good bit of alcohol flavor as well. Medium body, alcohol bite, decent carbonation.

On tap from the release/ 2nd Anniversary Party. Brown murky look to it with not much in the way of a head. Smeels like cherry, cramel malt and yeast. Very easy in your mouth and pleasant. Way complex in flavor. Bourbon notes, dried fruit, sugar, molasses, with just the right amount of sweet and tart cherry. Very hard to detect alcohol. Insane beer!

Bottle from brewery. Dark brown with no head. Aroma of cherry, sugar, caramel, vanilla, and oak. Thick tangy palate. Dark fruit, chocolate, cherry, vanilla, citrus, brown sugar, and oak taste.

This stuff is so freakin’ good. Had at the release today on tap, pours cloudy, dark caramel brown with no head. Nose is light and tart with some brett funk, as is the flavor as it tingles your tongue when it passes your lips. Very smooth and dangerously drinkable, considering the % and $!

sampled at DLD, wish I knew/remembered who passed this out to rather random beer fans late in the day at DLD, but thanks! Another example of a very generous soul at DLD... part of what makes it so great - Pours hazy brown with an aroma of tart cherries and some yeast and malt. The flavor is both sweet and tart with cherries, oak, and malt. I didn’t really notice the 11.5% abv. Nice.

Thanks to the very kind gentleman who gave me a little of his bottle at DLD. Poured a very cloudy brown color. Nice sour aroma with inviting cherry and a little wood. Taste starts out nice, some punchy sour, nice barrel, a little raising and dark fruit, and then moves slowly towards a beautiful finish of tart cherry and earthy notes. The taste was very good, but the lasting finish is what got me. This beer finishes great in the mouth. Nice work.