Victory Wild Devil Ale

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle. Poured a great orange/amber color with a huge foamy head. It had a great aroma of pine and citrus/floral hops. You can taste the great caramel malts with the a good powerful strong sense of hops.

Pours slightly hazy orangish color with huge white head. Bretty aroma with some bready yeast. Slightly tart bretty flavor with some lemon and dough. Medium body with lively carbonation and a slightly dry finish.

Tap at Barcade. Nice brew. Strong, wild yeast aroma. Flavor is sweet like candy with just enough yeasty funkiness to keep things interesting. Anymore funk and I wouldn’t be such a fan. Some subtle maltiness adds to the pleasure. Very solid on the whole.

Bottle:   Deep amber, redish tint, large rocky off-white head, sticky lacing.   Cross between a hoppy and Belgian like nose.   Tastes like a Pale Ale crossed with a Belgian.   Decent hop bite, a little bready, fiery.   American Pale Ale with a distinct Belgian flair.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Decent balance between Belgian and American Pale Ale.   Not a big fan of the style, but this one does a decent balancing job.

750 ml bottle from Bev4less. Pours a cloudy copper color with a big rocky white head that has fair retention. The aroma is strong with spicy fruits, perfume and something decidedly medicinal. The flavor has more perfumy floral crap but with a sour edge. The palate is full and smooth, with lively carbonation. The finish is short and dry. Overall: Not my cup o tea.

750ml corked and caged bottle. Pours a translucent, amber with a thin white head. The aroma was a good mix of IPA and sour, a little funky, a little grassy, some lemon hops, some pine. Flavor was well balanced, lemons, grapefruit, grass, earth, slight caramel, light cracker, some lactic sourness. Medium bodied with a slightly sour finish. I might have tried this too late for the hops and too soon for the funk.

750ml corked and caged bottle.Amber-brown color with a massive off-white head. Lots of sour funk in the aroma, as well as some crisp hops with citrus tones. Wow, the wild yeast really turn this one into a new creature. Bitter and hoppy still, there is an in your face sour edge to the beer, not quite as sour as an authentic lambic, more merged into the big picture.. There are also some smooth caramel malt tones. This is quite a unique beer, with a lot of flavors going on. The aroma has probably turned a little, considering the bottle is almost 9 months old. Very new school, experimental, and quite fascinating, I find myself reinterpreting this beer after each sip, noticing some other subtle nuance.

Dumped this into trappist glass with a thick white head, the color is a cloudy orange amber with some suspended particles in it. The nose is very floral and sour, You can really smell the hops used as well as the funky yeast strain. As you sip on you can taste the caramel malt and resin hops, blended with the funk. The acidity and funk sticks to the side walls of your mouth. Overall it has a great carbonation and well blended flavor, really like the use of the funky yeast strain.