Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Dark brown pour, soft reddish hues and a thick creamy, sticky beige head. Aroma is sour cherries, dark fruit, light vinegar, and loads of vinous notes. Mouth feel is nice, carb is perfect. Finish is quite tart, loads of tannic red wine notes, dark fruit, malt and red wine vinegar. Oak is present at the end, soft earthiness, hints og spice linger with strong sour, and vinegary fruit.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500mL bottle, pours black with a small, quickly-dissipating beige head. Nose is full of leather and wood upfront, with moderate balsamic, a touch of funk, and red wine notes. Flavour is very tart and woody, with intense vinous notes, lots of tannins, plenty of leather, and balsamic. Tart and woody finish, with a lot of red wine tannins. Complex and well-matured. Excellent.

A deep dark brown ale with a thick creamy lacing brown head. In aroma, tart sweet cherry malt with light corky notes, light licorice, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with loads of ground cherries, lactic acid, Epsom salts, light Brett, cave, very nice. On tap at Lupulus.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Dark clear maroon color small tan head. Aroma of plums and dates. Taste is sour dark fruit, edge of cocoa. Nice complexity. Tasty but pricey.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500 ml bottle poured into a tulip. Bottled May 2017. Dark reddish amber with beige head. Aromas of vinegar, dark fruit, some funk, berry. Tastes of vinegar, dark fruit, tart notes, light berry, some oak. Light body with a dry finish. Expected a bit more for Oxbow but it's solid.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from 2014 thanks to JBPortland! Pours clear neon orange, medium off-white head, dissipates fairly quickly, decent lacing. Aroma has an initial bit of acetone, buffered by a lot of oak tannin, almost buttery wood, some dark sugars, raisin, super oaky, Brett and other interesting bugs. Flavor has only a light tartness with medium bugginess and lots of oak. Muted dark fruits; more of an exploration of wood tannin. Medium body, soft and light carbonation. This is actually pretty tasty.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500 ml bottle that is a year old, properly stored in my basement. Aroma is sour oak, yeast, cherry skins, and mild vinegar. Maybe the year help me enjoy this slightly more because in general, I don’t like Flanders style ales. The flavor profile is much like the aroma. Cherry seems to be forward. Oak is here in a strong character. It also displays mellow vinaigrette flavor that can be found in many American sour or wild ales. (and honestly I hate that about American sours) The reason I let it sit so long is because I wasn’t in a rush to open a Flanders style-anything.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at kernel. Thanks to Tommy M. A hazed nut brown coloured pour with a small beige head. Aroma is perfume, brown sugars, sour red wine. Flavour is composed of red wine, vinous fruit blackberry, brown sugars, brett, Palate is semi sweet and sour, highish carbonation, woody sour. Good stuff.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

2016 bottle, drunk 10/23/16.
Dark auburn-chestnut body shows good clarity and a full, beige head with moderate retention.
Red fruits join with lightly grainy specialty malts which add brown bread and earth notes. Wood is notable, as well as light acetic acid. Some honey-caramel sits behind it, gently balancing. Lots of plastery yeast character with a big minerality and strong fruit esters that add pears, apples, cherries and strawberries on the finish. There’s a touch of aggressiveness from the acetic acid, but I think it’s still pretty even overall. No alcohol or flaw.
Fruity again in the mouth from acidity, malt and yeast esters, with light cola-like notes and moderate lactic acid. Acetic acid is again, gentle, only nipping at the palate slightly. Lots of wood tannin softens/dulls things and there is bright lactic and brett acidity on the end with gentle funk and no alcohol or flaw. Quite carbonated, but it’s rather engaging and lightens the beer, somewhat. The overall effect is of a very light Flander Red. A little bit more specialty malt character here, with lots of earthiness and fruitiness lingering.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

1st October 2016
Bottle - big cheers to tdtm82 for the split. Hazy amber - brown beer, thin pale tan head. Palate is light and semi dry, good fine carbonation. Tangy fruits. Flemish red sourness, a little acidic. Dry finish. But of an acid burn hanging around. Could not drink much of this.