2005 bottle courtesy of STLWill. Thanks! Pours a very hazy, almost murky, orange-tinted pink. Small head with poor head retention and lacing. Godawful looking beer. Aroma is big bread notes with some berry and nutty/sesame notes as well. Taste is tart currant and berry notes with stale moldy bread and nutty notes. Medium bodied. Fairly strong alcohol notes. Seems a bit past its prime.

Bottle. Pours a hazy brown/reddish color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity yeasty berry black currant aroma. Fruity black currant flavor with some yeasty hints. Also slightly bitter in flavor. Has a dry fruity berry black currant finish with some alcoholic hints.

Bottle at DLD 09 ... Hazy pink brown ... sweet fruits ... definite rose petel in nose ... very sweet ... little tart sourness ... cherry fruit (ok must be blackcurrant) in background ... very nice.... 3.7

12oz bottle from SamuraiArtist. This is an interesting beer. I declare this is the murkiest fruit beer EVER!. Looks like the dregs of a freshly pressed black currant juice. Looks like reddish purple dirt; no head and just a bit of lacing. Aroma is alcohol, chocolate, and very muted fruit-berries. Taste is similar with light chocolate and light berries. It seems like they took a lot of berries, than a whole lot of malt, and made the berries seem less berry like. It came out weird but interesting weird and fun.

Shared by beastiefan2k (thanks, Eugene!) - very hazy pink beer - you can’t even see through it, it’s so cloudy - aroma of semi-rotting berry skins and a bacteria/yogurt culture quality - slightly acidic, with flavors of berry, yogurt/dairy, and various fruit skins - a mild oak character settles in late, as does a bizarre waxy flavor - bacterial qualities throughout - interesting, but not in an entirely good way.

12oz bottle pours out a cloudy amber topped with a small off white head. A little fruit and wood on this one.

From Immy’s Tasting. Cloudy red color with a thin creamy pink head. Aroma of fruit and hints of sour. Sweet sour fruit flavor.

Bottle shared by Muzzlehatch on 3/11/06
Murky, dank, heavily clouded, sediment-laden pour, with more sediment at the bottom, but the beer had been resting cold for quite a while, so the first part of the bottle poured true enough, producing a fairly rapidly fleeting, violet-pink head, moderate lacing as well. It’s hard to really fault an unfiltered beer’s appearance. I mean, this is beer how it should be, and you just sort of have to accept it. I certainly wouldnt want HOTD to filter their beers. And while brewing methods obviously have an effect on head retention, I think it is a minor detail, hardly worthy of much criticism here.
So moving on, the cassis rises up to meet you in the nose. Almost lactic smelling in its tart, bone-dry currant astringency. Chalky at times, but then poignant at others, with a baffling yeastiness and a variety of flowers, lilac, lavendar and concord grapes.
The flavor almost comes off as citric at times, the currants producing almost a deep blood orange note that slowly intertwines with the yeast to produce the tart, again bone-dry flavor. Chalky in mouthfeel, with moderate carbonation, and almost a wheat-like blandness. Acidity builds up heavily, but no alcohol is ever present. What Lindemans cassis could be if they took out all of the syrupy sugar. If he started with more of a lambic-like base beer, I think this would be more successful. The beer is rather dominated by the black currants, and while I’d prefer bone dry, to cloyingly sweet, it still could use a better balance and variety of flavors. Still, it’s tough to not appreciate everything these guys do.

This is a pleasant and unusual beer. I think it looks kind of cool. It is a fruit beer, and you can tell by looking at it that it is a fruit beer; I don’t think that makes it look bad. It looks like raspberry daiquiri, small pieces of dark sedimetn and a thin and long last layer of pink foam. The aroma is sour berries. The flavor is sour as well, not like a lambic but a fruit sourness with a light acidic bite. The alcohol is completely hidden, and I am surprised to see this is 8%. Fairly thick. Extra points for creativity; this is not your typical fruit or desert beer.