8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Shared bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours clear dark brown with little beige head. Aroma of lemons, raspberries, effervescent powder, plums, grass, spices, a little mint. Tastes sour with a little sweetness and some salt. Medium bodied.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle: Poured a dark cloudy copper color ale with a small foamy head with limited retention and some lacing. Aroma of tart and sour elderberry notes is interesting. Taste is a mix of vinous notes with some oak and tart notes of elderberry with light acidic notes also noticeable. Body is full with limited filtration and good carbonation. Well done with intense flavours while retaining some drinkability.

6.5

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

750 ml corked & caged bottle, as Cascade Oak Aged Elderberry Northwest Sour Ale, ale aged in oak barrels with elderberries and spices, 2015 Project. ABV is 7.0%. At Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Fairly dark brown colour, huge beige head. Aroma of sour (black) elderberries, lemons, farmhouse kitchen, spices and malts. Sour / acidic, tart and astringent flavour, loads of lactic acid, notes of lemons and sour elderberries.

7.5

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

Bottle. Elderberry, caramel malt, and straw aroma. Amber with small head. Moderately sweet elderberry, caramel malt, moderately sour vinegar/citric acid, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Nice beer - impossible to drink without quoting Monty Python.

7.5

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

Towering tan head over opaque red-brown beer. Nose like blue/billberry, but also lactic acid, wood, and something strong fusely:estrery that betrays the true elderberry smell. Very sour, lactic, dark/red fruit, lemon, and a wild, spicy character. Bit of rotten fruit, too, in the background - again the elderberry, which sports this pugnancy (which drove me mad in my youth, being forced to down elderberry syrup against colds...)? The taste of (unripe, IMO) grapeskins, as suggested, is also very remarkable. Very tart, dry-out effet, acidthinning and -burn. Again a very tart USA sour. A bit of balance wouldn’t hurt, I would dare to suggest.

7

2015. W pierwszym niuchy toitoi. Ale po chwili fajniej, morwy, drewno, figi (!), jakis smrodek. W smaku slodkawe, tylko kwaskowate, sciaga

7.3

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

Sample at Borefts 2016. Poured a hazy reddish brown with a round white head. The aroma is yeast, light elderberry. The flavour is light to moderate sour with a light bubbly fruity light biscuit yeast palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

7.5

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

On tap at Borefts Bier Festival, 2016. Pours brown with medium beige head. Fruity, elderberry, flowery, grapes, oak, sour, vinous. Medium bodied.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Palm Tavern, 9/30/16. Dark red-brown, medium foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of sweet and earthy elderberry, Concord grape, raspberry, hints of tartness. The taste is elderberry, grape earth. Strongly tart. Medium-full bodied.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draft @ Rare Beer Breakfast 2016. Pours a hazy dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity sour tart woody elderberry aroma. Fruit sour tart woody berry flavor. Has a fruity sour tart woody elderberry finish.