The Bruery Sour Cherry Oude Tart

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Sour Red/Brown
Placentia, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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GABF 2012, Friday. A simple beer that does what it does very well. Lots of cherry in the flavor and aroma, combined with a lightly acidic yeast aroma and sour flavor. Light pink color.

Great taste with the sour and cherries. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Served on-tap at the 2011 bruery RS initiation party into a taster glass. Glad I got a sample of this early. A - Pours deep brown with a small head leaving little to no lacing down the glass. Nothing special really. S - Similar to supplication. Tart cherries, oak, vanilla sweetness mix well with a lightly toasted malt center. Pretty good but it kind of works against itself. T - Quite a bit of sour cherries up front with a moderate amount of lingering acidity. Plenty of chunky cherry flavor adds a touch of sweetness. Some vanilla and oak come thru once the acidity dye down. One of the best beers at the party. Very nice stuff. M - Good body with a lingering tart cherrie feel. The carbonation was a little low but it worked in its favor I think. Pretty good. D - I am glad I got a sample of this. It could have used a bit more cherries but it was still pretty good. I hope they end up bottling it at some point. I would love to have a few.

Pours a reddish brown hue. Cherry taste is strong throughout as is the sour taste. The aroma lets you know what you are in for. Sampled at the Reserve Society Celebration 2012.

Draft pour. Dark muddy red with no head. Aroma is cherry, tart, leather, balsamic, and sour. Taste is mouth puckering sour and cherry with tart and balsamic. Crisp and substantial feel in the mouth. More intense aroma and flavor profile than the base beer. Great sour.

draft pour at ebf has a brown color and a nice look. aroma has decent acidity, sour cherry, light funk, and some fruit. mouth feel is light and easy to drink. flavor has a good tartness, medium acidity, cherry, gets good and dry and the finish lingers. the base beer was nice and this is a treatment that worked.

Draft. Pours a ruby esk body with a bubbly head no real retention. Aromatically big sour cherries, light funk tones, a hint of vinegar and some light wood character. More tart then sour, light leather tone and a low acidity level. Nice offering.

In short: A very nice tart/acidic cherry beer.
How: Tap at at Extreme Beer Fest 2011
The look: Muddy light burgundy body topped by a beige ring of foam
In long: Nose is mostly sour cherries and some acidic note, not funky or anything. Taste is has a lot of sour cherries, a bit of caramel, vinegar notes, sourness and acidity level is medium, no funk or anything wild, almost no tannins presence. Body was unfortunately a bit lifeless. With a more lively body this would have been a kick-ass tart cherry beer. This was a nice exclusivity at EBF. EBF tickets at expensive, but a gym subscription is a lot more expensive so I just go to beer festivals to feel better about my body.

On tap at Extreme Beer Fest 2011. One of the first beers I had, and then came back right away. Pours a rusty reddish-brown color with a short off-white head that stays around pretty well with a good swirl or two. A bit of lacing. The nose is quite nice. It had been awhile since I’d had Oude Tart, but I recognized the base right away. Nice tartness with some cream and dark fruits plus a mild acetic presence. Good lactic presence there as well, then layered with some fresh, tart cherries. Great complexity in the nose. The flavor wasn’t quite as complex are integrated as the nose, and it was a tad bit more acid-forward without as much of the underlying cherry, oak, and fruit flavors. Still, quite good. The feel integrated the two acid components quite well and mixed things up really well with the cherries. Overall, a very nice beer that I was thrilled to see on the menu. Serving type: on-tap Reviewed on: 03-22-2011

Appearance: Pours a deep maroon with no head to speak Appearance: Sour funk, berry and cherry. Taste: Sweet and tart cherries, wood, very acidic. Mouthfeel: Puckering. Overall: Not good, great!