 joeneugs (282), Livermore, California, USA
May 21, 2009 Pours a reddish brown with a small reddish brown head that dissapears before you can set the bottle down. The aroma is of rich chocolate liquour, cherries, strawberries, wood and earth. Very intoxicating. The flavor is amazingly complex with sour cherries, cranberries, chocolate, wood, and mollasses. It has a very thick body for the style and is mouthwateringly sour and salty. This is one of those creative brews in a class by itself that actually works really well. I loved it. Just wish is wasn’t so dang expensive. Its a flavor explosion in the mouth, with a nice woody aftertaste.
cprochak (388), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 18, 2009 Updated: Aug 30, 2009Re-rate due to a bottle from the brewery tasted on 7/30/09. Similar aromas, appearance and flavor. Good carbonation. Still a phenomenal beer, however, incredible sourness that dominated the flavor and killed my palate. Revising from 4.6 to 4.2 due to lack of drinkability and intenseness on my tongue.
Draft for Sourfest 2009 at Brouwer’s for SBW. Pours a dark clear brown with a hint of ruby red. Great malty aroma with vanilla dominating, but the citrus undertones give you a heads up of what you are about to dig into. You get some blackberry and cherry undertones, but ultimately a very smooth, good sour.
gracefullypunk (272), Washington, USA
May 17, 2009 On tap for SBW Sour Fest; one of 16 tried. If I can find this one again it will be the first beer I order. Wonderful. Pours a near black with thin beige head and has a very pleasing palate. Aromas of sour straws, vinegar, brown sugar and tart apple. Complex tastes of cherry, coffee, chocolate, slight bourbon, oak, and roasted vanilla, with a definite lingering sourness.
carruthm (1109), Seattle, Washington, USA
May 16, 2009 On tap at Brouwer’s for sour fest. Pours a black hue with a small ring of head. The aroma is subtle, slightly tart dark fruits and leather. The taste is a huge burst of sour like biting into a liquid sour patch kid. Candy sweetness along with the potent sourness. The sour lingers on the palate but never burns the palate, smooth and inviting.
crackedmachine (82), Seattle, Washington, USA
May 16, 2009 Holy Christ! This is deceptively strong. Drinking this from a tap (lacking ABV info) I just barely picked up a hint of alcohol, unitl I felt it after finishing. Pours almost black with a medium-light head. Sour, slightly woody aroma. Pleasant. Take a sip, the mouth puckers immediately. Very sour, very delicious, and pretty unique. The cherry is subtle, the oak a bit less so, and the brett not subtle at all. A truly impressive beer.
beernbourbon (230), chicago, Illinois, USA
May 15, 2009 2008 bottle. Very murky brown pour with almost no head. Aroma is light sour cherry funk, heavy wood, and pommegranite. Flavor is sour and wood up front with a bitter bite in the middle and a nice long sour finish. If I hallucinate, I can taste some cherries in there. I like that the cherries are subtle b/c cherry/kriek beers are not always my favorite. Good stuff, wish the bottle were larger.
cgarvieuk (4159), Edinburgh, Scotland
May 13, 2009 Bottle at my cloisters Bar staff tasting no2... deep brown red ... sweey cherry and light sour fruit nose ... woody and tart ... lots of rasisns ... very soft but nicecarbonation... quite rich and deep flavoured. ... all round not to shabby.
fonefan (10868), VestJylland, Denmark
May 12, 2009 Bottle 12.7fl.oz. @ home.
[ Trade by Dunk ]. Clear medium to dark amber red color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, berry - sour, raisin, cherry, cask wood, bourbon, alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet, moderate to heavy acidic and heavy bitter with a long duration, and a dry dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft - flat, finish feel is light moderate alcoholic. [20081225]
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