Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

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

Sour, berry nose nose - like black currant. Cloudy dark purple color, no head. Juice-like heavy raspberry sweetness, punctuated with woody and nutty notes. Sourness towards end. Heavy body. Really easy beer, but full of character. Great balance. Good going!

Thanks so much to Eyedrinkale and Mkobes for presenting this one to us! Very intense sour cheery peel and woddy nose. Muddy brown color. Thick texture - nice acidic taste - cherries of course but also almonds, some candy sugar and vanilla!!! Boy- what a nice one!

Bottle (Cantillon Open Brewing Day): Hazy brown with ruby highlights. Very vineous nose, loads of prunes, berries and port wine. Flavour is a wonderful blend of berries, sour grapes, dark fruits and "christmas". Sippable, tasty stuff.

Big thanks to MartinT for the sample enjoyed at the "let’s piss off Clark" tasting, this truely was one of the highlights for me

Nasty looking! Sludgy brown, explosive diarrhea, with a couple of bubbles. At least it didn’t have any protein chunks, it would have scored even lower! It reminds me of every time I go to the States and eat American junkfood, Taco Bell for instance, I always get the runs, like my body rejects it and decides to give my colon a backwash as punishment. That’s why I stick to places like Whole Foods, although the attraction is just too great and I always end up caving in! Anyways, you get my point, back to the Beer.
Well maderized, roasted pecans, cherries macerated in that spicy vodka who’s name escapes me, it was like NG Belgian red on cristal meth. I even smelled a bit of curry in there! Whoh!
Excellent body, the cherries and acidity make a wonderful balancing act, the murky, yeasty funk is there and the alcohol is solid and warming at the end. Really not much to look at, but if you can look beyond that it’s a phenomenal Beer.

THANKS TO SILPHIUM FOR SHARING....dark reddish brown appearance with minimal off-white head...aroma is bourbon-barreled with berry, cream, chocolate, wood, and earthy notes....flavor is of bourbon, dark fruit, vanilla, and alcohol (there are definite flemish characteristics here as well...ie vinegar...)...awesome palate

rerate this is as close as you can get to a perfect beer. Yumm Yumm "mmmmmmm so good poured a dark dark brown small head left great lacing. Aroma was a little oaky and candy sugar, mabye appley??? Flavor was right up there with the best of them. Tart flavor yet still roasted flavor. Tasted like cherries in the finsih and aftertaste. So wish i could get this all the time oh my."

Bottle courtesy Walt. Unknown vintage, but my bottle had the black label with the orange "C" featured prominently. No foil. Deep reddish brown body with red highlights, medium light tan head. Interesting aroma of vanilla and oak with cherry, chocolate, and toast complementing subdued brie cheese rind tartness. Boozy body with a prominent alcohol kick, plenty of tannic oak and vanilla, and strong tartness of brie cheese rind. Sweet cherry lurks beneath the yeast and tannins, and a pinch of brown sugar imparts another smidgen of sweetness. The cherry and vanilla become more pronounced as the palate adjusts to the yeast sourness. Rich, unique, and stellar. A must try.

Nice appearance: dark brown, thin head...incredible aroma: earthy and woody (oak), thick with fruit - especially cherries, and maybe even bourbon. The higher alcohol content is evident from the first sniff. Very interesting flavor: very wine-like and vinous. The alcohol is becoming a little much, and takes away from the otherwise pleasant finish. Very complex and yeasty, mouth-puckering tartness abounds. Very, very unique brew, and worth the effort to find this one.