 goldtwins (4042), Nesconset, New York, USA
Oct 2, 2005
Poured a lightly hazed depp orange with a medium cream colored head that quickly dissolved to a thin layer that persisted until the drink was finished. The aroma was dry and funky. Smelled like dry poop, dehydrated fruit and leather as it warmed.. Notes of dirty hay were also present. This was tasted with the Panil and La Folie and this had the funkiest aroma of the three. Flavor was dry woody with tart fruit. Less fruit than the others.
zizzybalubba (125), Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
Jun 29, 2009 750 mL bottle from Total Wine. Brownish-orange pour with a thick, fizzy off-white head. Pleasantly sour aroma with a hint of wood. Surprisingly understated sour flavor but still quite good. Other flavors are very understated as well but include oak, earth, and apple cider vinegar (but only very faint on the end). Pleasant finish. In fact, pleasant is probably the best way to describe this beer overall. There’s nothing overwhelming but it is just that, pleasant.
dmac (1185), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
Jun 19, 2009 750 ml bottle from EZ Liquors that I thought was a total steal at $4.99, well I was wrong. Poured an ugly murky swamp water brown body with a nice looking frothy off white head that left some serious lacing. Aroma was......well bad. Notes of spanish olives, soy sauce, honey, melted candle wax, rotting wet wood. Palate is nice enough, medium bodied...slightly creamy mouthfeel with lively carbonation and a sour finish. Flavor is tart and sour but the spanish olive and soy remains with some very faint cherry and perhaps some wood. I was hoping to find a true gem at a bargain basement price but I just found the basement with a piece of broken costume jewlery.
MAP (1048), Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Jun 18, 2009 Single bottle purchased from the Friendly Mini Mart in Lakewood. I have seen this same 750 ml bottle chilling there on the bottom corner shelf for months. Just one lonely bottle. Gathering dust. So this could go either way, rocking awesome and aged perfectly, or terrible rank and overdue. Ok, the smells is pretty juicy. I got a good nose of strawberry banana when I poured it, upon closer inspection there is a healthy woody sour smell, deliciously earthy and robust, but still overloaded with some natural smelling of soft bananas and strawberries, as well as a little green apple from the sour aromas. The flavor, dear god the flavor. OH GOD THE FLAVOR! it is actually no longer sour. This tastes so mellow and earthy now, it is just fantastic. It has some really soft mossy earth notes, at first, then the most babyish soft malt flavorings topped off with an ending sweetness. Dear god, this is such a fantastic bottle.... And it is the only one I have ever seeeennnnn NOOO I’M DOOOOOOOMMMMMEEEEEEDDDD!
presario (2768), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
May 18, 2009 Big bottel purchased in Spokane. Good "pop" from the cork. Moderate lasting brownish head on dirty red-brown beer. Sourish floral aroma with cherry and a hint of bubble gum. Lots of sour cherry up front in the taste, followed by more sour cherry and a soft cherry finish. Some chewy woody notes lower in the glass. Hints of whispery chocolate. Cries out for a plate of food to accompany it, or maybe I was hungry when I sampled.
paiste2002 (107), Saugus, California, USA
May 16, 2009 750ml bottle. Pours a hazy copper color with a smallish white head. Aroma is funky cherry malty sweetness. Flavor is tart cherry, spice, caramel malty sweet in the finish. Nice balanced well made beer but could have been a little more on the tart side.
MrChopin (458), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 25, 2009 Opaque pinkish-tan color, minor foamy white head. Apple and cherry in the nose, some spice, near cidery... very similar to but a less desert-like New Glarus Belgian Red. Fllavor is tart, woody, lots of biting citrus and apple, some spice. Moderate palate but very prickly carbonation. Overall this is rather messy: the sweet fruits, sour elements, and spice combine for an odd mix, one that never gets beyond a summation of parts, and a contrasting summation at that.
tmoreau (302), Lombard, Illinois, USA
Apr 22, 2009 Group share of a 750ml bottle at Two Brothers, Warrenville, IL. by manager Gabe. The sample was a hazy brown tone with some ruby hints showing through the glass. The head was modest and off white. The aroma was mixed fruit, tartness, malt, a touch of caramel and spice. The flavor was a combo of tart cherry and the sweetness of raisins/currants. It also presented a touch of earthiness and vinous notes. Although, not a big fan of sours, (probably from unfamiliarity) this was an interestingly complex brew.
Lumpy (1802), Carrollton, Texas, USA
Apr 15, 2009 Bottle. Body-deep brown quarter inch foamy head. Nose-cherry, apple, leather, clarified butter. Taste-leather, very light sour, unsweet cherry mash. Not too sweet, almost perfect mix of sweet and sour, just not quite sour enough, odd dry industrial aftertaste, soil, sawdust, pecan shells, low alcohol on the back end.
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