Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

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

[At GBBF 2004] A dark brown beer with a small disappearing orange head. It has a great sour aroma with notes of overripe fruit - just like a Belgian Sour Ale. The flavor has a fantastic sourness, that draws out the mouthwater, but it also contains notes of overripe berries and wood. The sourness leaves You with a dryness in the mouth. Fantastic - if You like sour ales - You’ll love this one.

(Bottle 75 cl) Beautiful, clear red beer - no head whatsoever. Completely flat. Sour, but fresh berry aroma. Extremely sour, but still fresh. Reminds me a lot of a Flemish Sour. Loads of fruit and extremely vinous. No real bitterness. Nice, but I dont believe I can drink a lot of this. 031205 and 061006

Bottled. Very dark brown. Rodenbach-like acidic, vinous, woody grape aroma. Full bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Like a St Lamvinus on steroids. Unusual and incedibly flavourful, yet elegant. Definitely not your everyday beer. The flavour could perhaps be even more complex, but I find this to be one most the most interesting beers I’ve had.

37.5 cL bottle. Pours almost fully clear and golden amber to brown with a lacing off-white head. Smooth fruity aroma with notes of prunes and raisins. Sweet malty to light barrel wooden base flavour with a great raisin to prune flavour swept through. Light acidic touch to a dense caramel malty and fruity finish. Stunning. Had a sample from an 03 vintage too.

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]

Bottle. Cloudy brown colour, absolutely no head. Acidic and metallic flavour. Strange beer. Bad beer.

Bottle. Hazy red brown coloured with a small off white head. Aroma of caramel, butterscotsch, cherries, marzipan and rye bread with bretty notes. Flavour of cherries, marzipan, cherry stones and alcoholc with an acidic touch. Tart and warming alcoholic finish.

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: August 24, 2005
Score: ii
Words: russian river contract
great rich malt, good cherry tartness with only a hint of sweetness, nice balance, a bit of bret upon warming, interesting

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: December 03, 2005
Source: strong ale fest
Score: ii to iii
Appearance: clear ruby red
Flavor: wonderful cherry tartness in the aroma and flavor, great cherry pit bitterness

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: June 18, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog I
Vintage: 2003
Appearance: solid brown
Aroma: funky horsy aroma with a bit of swetness
Flavor: thin soy sauce flavor

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: June 18, 2005
Vintage: 2004
Appearance: rusty brown
Aroma: sweet rich malt aroma, hint of horse
Flavor: tart malt flavor
Overall: what’s the big deal?

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: June 18, 2005
Vintage: 2004
Words: gold foil
Appearance: ruby red
Aroma: tart horsy aroma
Flavor: sweet tart fruity flavor, the tart fruit saves the day, best of the litter, ii

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: July 14, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2005
Aroma: huge tart cherry and oak aroma
Flavor: cherry flavor is taking on a candy sweetness

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: June 09, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: Noog 3D
Vintage: 2007
Score: 3.6 to 4.0
Aroma: huge tart cherry pit aroma backed by rich chocolate
Flavor: very rich sweet cherry flavor with plenty of tartness, rich chocolate

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: July 03, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Vintage: 2008
Appearance: hazy dark amber, wispy beige head
Aroma: big tart cherry pit aroma
Flavor: big sweet dark caramel malt flavor, lots of cherry tartness, touch of chocolate, balancing earthyness

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: July 04, 2008
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2008
Appearance: opaque dark burgendy red, scant beige head
Aroma: dry dark caramel malt aroma, lots of oak, woody cherry pit tartness, light mustyness
Flavor: dark caramel and cherry flavor, lots of fruity tartness, light sweetness kept in check by the tartness, wood character adds balance and complexity, touch of chocolate

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***+/4

Name: Cuvee de Tomme
Date: August 01, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewery
Vintage: 2009
Appearance: clear dark brown, fint tan head, drippy streaks of lace
Aroma: tart lactic cherry and oak aroma, light chocolate
Flavor: strong cherry and oak flavor, tartness is nicely tempered by the oak, long tart finish

Aroma: /10; Appearance: /10; Flavor: /10; Palate: /10; Overall: /20
Rating: 0/5.0
Drinkability: /10