Barrel-Aged Brown Ale - Balaton Sour Cherries
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.14
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Sour brown with Balaton cherries.
Aged almost 3 years in wine barrels, followed by several months in our foudres (large format oak tanks). The beer smells like a barrel room in a brewery. Lots of oak and aged beer flavors, with chocolate roasted malt flavors still present. Layers of red wine and dark cherry flavors, similar to black cherry on the finish. Cherry flavors are both sweet, sour, and tannic, adding some palate weight to the beer. Hints of acetic acid from the extended barrel aging round out the flavor.
Aged almost 3 years in wine barrels, followed by several months in our foudres (large format oak tanks). The beer smells like a barrel room in a brewery. Lots of oak and aged beer flavors, with chocolate roasted malt flavors still present. Layers of red wine and dark cherry flavors, similar to black cherry on the finish. Cherry flavors are both sweet, sour, and tannic, adding some palate weight to the beer. Hints of acetic acid from the extended barrel aging round out the flavor.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at Bitter Creek. Medium brown, flat pour. Definitely sour aromas, some of the darker malts in the background. Mild astringency, sourness, but still kind of sweet.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2016
at 21:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at Stone - Richmond, 4/16/16. Reddish-brown pour, kinda muddy looking. Oak, sour cherry, and caramel malt come through on the aroma and in the flavor. Decent mouthfeel. Thought this worked pretty well overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Apr 2016
at 10:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Lord Hobo. It pours cloudy dark brown with a medium off-white head. The nose is quite woody, vanilla, creamy, chocolate, bounty bar, cherry skin, charred wood and bakewell tart. The taste is bitter, pretty woody, vanilla, earth, sour cherry, candy, over-ripe, funk, charred wood, slightly burnt and damp leaves with a dry, woody finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Again too woody, but not bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2015
at 14:27
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Murky maroon color, tan head. Aroma of earthy cherries. Taste has sweetish candied cherries.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2015
at 19:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On draft at the Wicked Weed Funk Asheville Fest 2015. Pours a hazy dark brown with an off whtie head. Aroma of dark stone fruits. Flavors of tart cherries and oak.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jul 2015
at 17:10