Russian River Salvation

Batch 005 (if I can read my hand writing correctly). A great Belgian that went quite well with the steak I browned and caramalized onions. Pours with a rocky, off-white head covering a near black body. Aroma of rich bananas, raisins, and currants. Taste is quite solid wheat, banana, tobacco, belgian spices, raisins and dark fruits. Light carbonation, very good beer.

25.4 oz bottle, batch 002. Dark, burgundy brown with a thick, dense beige head. Nose is fig, dates, musty caramel and pineapple. Smooth and kind of milky with buzzy carb. Taste is raisin and woody apple with yeast and green blueberries. Nice combination of sweet, half-sour and bitter notes.

Thanks to Electic for this bottle, batch 002. Pours dark brown with a small light tan head. Aroma of cherries, sherry, wood, tobacco, raisins, dark fruits, definitely wears age well. tastes also of sherry, wood, a sort of oaky tartness, cherries, raisins, finishes with a strong wood flavor and blackberries (no, not the phone). Medium bodied, well carbonated, but it’s missing some creaminess in the texture that I’m assuming was once there. Pretty nice though, a very elegant beer.

Bottle, thx Omhper! Dark colour. Special B-malt in aroma. Lots of banana, fruit and candy-esters. Slight harshness (perhaps from a slight overuse of Special B?). Wow, so good!

750ml bottle batch 005. Poured a dark brown almost black with a thin beige head. Light lacing was left on the tulip. Aromas of dark fruits, cocoa dust and toasted malts. Flavor had tons of dark fruits and banana with some spice and Belgian yeast on the finish.