Oude Bae
Stillwater in Grand Mound, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Crazy Mountain Brewing CompanySour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production
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Score
6.96
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Amber Sour Ale with Pinot Noir, aged on French oak.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce can into tulip glass; no can dating, but is a recent release. Pours slightly hazy ruby reddish orange/copper color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light pink head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tart/tangy red grapes, cherry, plum, raisin, fig, berry, lemon, green apple, white wine, oak, hay, grass, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of oaken vanilla, pepper, lacto funk, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/acidic yeast, red grapes, oak, and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tart/tangy red grapes, cherry, plum, raisin, fig, berry, lemon, green apple, white wine, oak, hay, grass, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of oaken vanilla, pepper, lacto funk, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tartness, fruit tang, and yeast/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy red grapes, cherry, dark fruit, berry, lemon, green apple, white wine, oak, hay, grass, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light funk/pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/acidic yeast, red grapes, oak, and dark/bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/tartness and tangy fruit balance; with zero puckering flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tartness and tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, fairly acidic, and lightly tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is an awesome fruited sour ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/acidic yeast, red grapes, oak, and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and refreshing to drink with the mellowly acidic/tangy/tannic/drying finish, never overly lactic. Definitely a kettle sour, but it has great complexity. Great balance between fruity Lacto, grapes, oak, and dark/bready malts. More of a sour red. A really enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2018
at 22:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours red with some pink foam. Nice refreshing red currant nose, looks the same by the way. Some sweet sourness there. Taste has a bit off acidity but not too much. Light smoke there, wine coming through as well. Very drinkable and works really well for summer evening.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2017
at 02:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at OLAR. One heck of a sticky lacing. Red glowing color. Tart earthy cherries aroma, a little perfume rose cherries. Flavor is just tart at the end. Lightly drying finish and tingly mouthfeel. Fun tart fruit beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jan 2017
at 22:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
7oz pour at Anxo, pours a watery rootbeer brown, with some soapy white head. Hard to tell if there was a dark beer base or if it picked up the purpleish color from contact with the grapes. Nose is cool, a little black tea, some malt, fresh grapes, a little neutral wood. Flavor has a little cream soda, a little watery tea, some fresh grape juice, woody, light yeast, some raisin juice. Finishes dry, lightly tannic.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2016
at 13:34