Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Hazy dark amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dark fruit, wood, light acetone and red wine. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. 170113

Bottle from CoOp Bellingham
Beautiful red-amber color with medium sized head. Aroma of vanilla oak and wood, light cookies, light alcohol. Sweet mouthfeel, malt and toffee flavor, good share of oak and vanilla, some whiskey, rather boozy, light fruity and sour touch, pungent.
Personally, it’s a bit messy, not cohesive, not rich, alcoholic, and definitively not worth the extreme price.

Thanks Long for sharing this. Enjoyed at 55 F in a tulip.

A - 3 finger off-white head formed and then faded slowly. left behind some nice lacing. Burnt copper and gold. Looks like fig juice in the glass.

S - Tart Cherries and Cider Vinegar on the nose. This is followed by malty oaky sweetness.

T - Okay. this is very interesting. Tart for just a moment...ripened cherries and peaches but this is immediately followed with a strong tawny porto taste and charred oak, heavy on the cherries, raspberries and grapes. Musky and big burnt brown sugar sweetness and a banana thrown in. Lots of flavors at once but the tawny porto dominates the taste.

M - Medium body, light carbonation and a huge boozy alcohol burn in my chest as I drink.

O - I should have read the description before reviewing this beer. I expected a sour. What I got was a weird combo of all kinds of barrels. What an interesting beer with tons of depth and complexity.

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ Hotel tasting @ Hotel Tulip - Bodegraven ] before 4th Borefts Beer Festival 2012.Clear medium to dark amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, wood, alcohol. Flavour is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, malty, achol, dried berry - fruit, oak, red wine notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120929]

Bottle from Maekchu. Pretty red color with lace. Aroma of wood, caramel, raisins, some acid. Sweet and alcoholic, with a bit of sourness, and cherry. Much like a cocktail. Nice tasting, to be sure, but what is it? A hodge-podge that is worse than any of the constituent beers. I’m sick of blends. Especially over-priced ones.

Bottle: Poured a dark cloudy brown color ale with a large foamy head that disappeared quite fast. Aroma of sour notes is quite dominating with some brown sugar notes also perceptible. Taste is a weird mix between some sour and tart notes of cherries and oak (Dissident) mix in with vinous notes and some sweet caramel and malt notes. Body is quite full with medium carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Interesting experiment though not something I would drink on a regular basis. I’m also wondering if I would not have preferred to drink some Fed or Adam on its own and whether this is not a waste of good beer at the end of the day.

Bottle received in trade. Thank you Claspada. Pours clear amber with a small offwhite head that doesn’t leave much trace while dissipating. Smell is sweet and malty with caramel, orange peal, lcohol, dark grapes, resinous wood, sour apples, pine, orange peal, wood and pineapple.Taste is sweet and fruity with caramel, dark grapes, prunes, dark bread, sour apples, orange peal, wood, pineapple, mango, moist soil and hints of lemon juice. Mouthfeel is smooth, round, slightly boozy and near full bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, tiny bitter and slitly sour with dark bread, dark grapes, sour apples, orange peal, pineapple in sugar syrup, grass and wood.