Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

bottle black label, pours a black but you can see light through it when held up to a lamp. thick off white head little lacing. aroma is sour and lightly cherry. taste is suprising. i have never had a cherry beer i liked. taste is sour charries and something i cannot name. very good and quite suprising thanks to footbalm for this one.

Étiquette Noire. Une bonne partie du contenu gicle hors de la bouteille lors de son ouverture. Couleur acajou tendant vers le brun, mousse beige pale d’allure belge. Arômes complexes et évolutifs suggérant fortement la chaire de cerises rouges, l’anis, les barils de bois humide, la mélasse, la crème à l’érable, les grains de caroubes sous de fortes notes de beurre. Texture ample et liquoreuse composé d’une multitude de fines bulles piquantes. En bouche, acidité sous quelques traits tartriques, quelques aspects en commun avec Temptation de Russian River à cause de la vive présence de beurre et de cerises. L’alcool se fait de plus en plus présent et nous réchauffe sur son passage donnant ainsi un aspect liquoreux…anis étoilé, caramel, mélasse, cuir pour ne nommer que ceux-ci. Quelques années supplémentaires de vieillissement pourraient sans doute apporter une complexité et un mélange des composantes encore plus intégrées. Très alccolique pour l’instant mais tout de même un chef-d’œuvre! Merci Rastacouere.

Black Label.. Poured a dark brown with ruby hues and a medium cream colored head. Aroma was cherries, sweet malt and vanilla or oak. Flavor was heavy on the cherries and vanilla with a bit of sweet malt and alcohol.. Medium mouthfeel with good carbonation.

Poured dark brown color with a cream colored head. Aroma of bourbon, cherries, light tartnesss, and sugar/caramel. The flavor continues with the bourbon and cheeries. Sweet and tart with a semi-dry woody finish. So tasty if only it was half the price and sold in GA.

Bottle. Black Label. Very dark mahogony with a nice cocoa head. Opening the bottle brings lots of cherry aroma. Gives way to a whiskey aroma, chocolate, and sweet malt. First sip starts with lots of tart cherry - but it’s fruitier and lighter than expected. There’s oak and a bit of malt. Lighter bodied than expected. It turns into a nice refreshing beer with some sweetness and a good tart cherry flavor with some background chocolate. It’s good, but I wish it had a little more body and more at the end instead of finishing very dry. It just gets tiring and there’s a little too much whiskey barrel and not enough bret to add complexity.

Pour is nice ruby amber red with a thin khaki head...smell is sour cherry and oak...taste is sweet and somewhat tart at first with building tartness (brett) and cherry sour building into an incredibly dry wine like flavor...oak surely comes out in the finish too...I would not want to drink this everyday, but it sure was delicious...

deep garnet colored. wispy head that faded QUICKLY. Oaky, sour, cherry nose. I immedialtely said that I would not like this after smelling it- I really expected a bunch of sour, but the first sip is really rich and velvety and the cherry is there, but the sourness is really restrained. Very dry like a cabernet. No alcohol evident at all. Cherries at a really nice element. Walt says bready, but he’s a fag.

07.30.05 Black label (2004?) 750ml. Deep, slightly murky brown with thin but lasting tan head. Aroma of chocolate covered cherries with syrup, cracked open and oozing out of a candy dish. Sour cherries, acid, Easter citrus and spice. Flavor bursts with more black cherry, wine cask, light cork, sherry hints. Alcohol burn and great acid astringency, at times somewhat chalky. Not at all what I expected and even better than I hoped, like a strong ale/flemmish sour blend (which seems to be exactly what they’re shooting for). This stuff could only improve with age.