3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Quite tasty. Not exceptionally sour. Well balanced with the malt sweetness. Not super complex, but easy drinking and quite pleasant, just the right amount of oak doesn’t overpower it.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Mahogany color with a delicious small lacing head. Sour aroma of vinegar and sour cherry with oak perfume. Acidic, barrique taste with cherries, some hazelnut with a good balanced sourish vinegar aftertaste. Complex mouthfeel, nice sour ale
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Stong sour aroma with lambic qualities. Dark brown color with a light head. Sweet and sour flavors, fruit, ice tea, sweet, lemon. Medium palate. Quite good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
25 cl bottle from Bieropholie, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. JN22/08.
App.: Very deep mahogany, decent tan head, clear.
Aroma: Strong organic acids and some funk, sour cherries and bitter greens, some brown sugar and raisins, slightly nutty, light warm spices, a bit of molasses.
Palate: Medium-ish body, somewhat astringent, sparse carbonation.
Flav.: The malts come through more here: hazelnuts, brown sugar, raisins, rootbeer-like herbals, some vanilla, the funk is only barely noticeable, some cherries and a touch of organic acids; somewhat tart, a little bitterness, vanilla and a bit of brown sugar with organic acids to finish.
I like it. A nice blend of sourness and rich malts.
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
excellent flemish sour. deep reddish brown in color. great sour flavor with sweet aftertaste.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Ruby red is the best way to describe the colour of this beer. medium sized vanilla head. semi sweet aromas of fermented cherries, oak and vinegar. Has a light, moderately carbonated mouthfeel. very lively with flavors of cherries and plums. Reminded of a cherry lambic taste, overall a nice beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Small bottle. Very dark amber with a very thin head. Refreshing sour apple and cherry aroma. Good sour and slightly sweet flavor with a lingering aftertaste.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Small bottle purchased at Ledger’s Liquors, in Berkeley, Calif. Poured pretty flat. What little head there was from pouring pretty much died, leaving a slight ring at the glass edge. No sediment so wonder if this is artifically carbonated. Has that wonderfully unique sour smell to it. Sort of a cross between a wet bandaid, cherries and cough syrup. Very distinct sour taste, which changers to another sour flavor on the palate in the aftertaste. Somewhat thin body. Vinegar after taste after a couple of minutes. Not sure I’d like to drink this one regularly by itself, but think it would be dynamite paired with a spicy curry, or something like that which has a kick to it!!
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