7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled from Giant. Red brown pour. Malts, sour patch kids and some body. Bit of wood. Pretty nice.

6.9

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

Bottle. The "Lips of Faith" version of this beer. Reddish brown color, with little head. Smells alot like wine. With it’s grape, raisin flavor, tastes like wine too! Actually one of the better sour ales I have had.

8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home, cellared this one for almost 2.5 years, this Easter Monday seemed like the day to crack this open. Cooked a chili, hosting family, why not open something from the cellar, right. Pours brown with a ruby hint and an off-white head. Nose is berries, cherry, light acetic acid, a vague malty touch. Taste is moderate to medium acidity, light funk, leather, quite dry, somewhat fruity. Light to medium bodied, it’s got a soft carbonation. Perhaps not world class, but got outstanding aspects for sure.

9.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Dark brown pour, little off white head, that dissapeared quickly. Aroma is very complex. sour cherries, oak, grassy, dark brown sugar, wet hay, and some light coffee. The flavor is very tart, like lambic tart...........it really gives off a wicked barnyard lambic sourness. This is an incredible beer!

8.4

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

Draft at the new Belgium bar in the denver airport (concourse B). Pours a deep dark purple with small off-white head that soon recedes to a fine ring. The glass they served it in is a teku which really surprised me. The aroma is big and bold with tart red fruits. The taste is pleasantly tart cherries and some mildly bitter berries. The palate is medium and the carbonation is soft. Overall: decent.

8

this whole series is very very cool. I'm loving this one.

7

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

Clear brown colour with lasting head. Aroma of old dried fruits like prunes and dried cherries. Taste has an initial chalky, minerally note. Tart but not especially vinegary. Slightly woody.

7.6

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

Optisch rotbraun, feine Perlung, in der Nase Trauben. Im Trunk schöne Säure, sehr angenehm, dann kommt röstiges Malz durch. Spät Schokolade. Lecker.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Notes from June 2009 4.1 look: 4 - smell: 4.5 - taste: 4 - feel: 3.5 - overall: 4.5 Big Tex goes out of his way & surprises me for my birthday with a goodie. 32 ounces all for me. :D I think I've tasted some dregs from a bottle once, but I'm feeling like this is a really good time to be a little selfish. Poured into my favorite Ommegang Anniversary glass. The glass flips open & I get showered with lovely, vinous mist. 7 out of 10 out of shape beer geeks prefer this to being in the clubhouse after winning the Pennant I bet. :P It slowly gurgles out the bottle the color of dry blood, settling in the glass a murky oiled brown leather with edges of bourbon. An inch of frosted, slightly orange, coffee creamer head impedes my movement for just a bit. Smell is all about over-ripe cherry juice & perceived strawberry tartness. To a lesser extent, apple skins, butter, soil, & sweet table wine. Musk. The trail end is just slightly bready. Taste is vinegary of course but with a lot of soft white wine fruitiness. Lots of palate drying wood, & sour green apple esters. A bit of leather. Salivating pitty apricot tartness & bitter grapefruit rind. Paper dry finish. I consider funky notes a tossup on whether they work or not. This right here doesn't exhibit any barnyard or off-kilter aspects. If it's just done really well, I don't think it needs that quality to be effective. They certainly have the experience & modern equipment to mimic & refine something old world. Light to mild acetone harshness. Carbonation is just barely there, but I think it works. So dry. Okay, here's where I say all this negative stuff because I'm such a downer & everyone rakes me for it: The alcohol is noticeable through the fruit notes; eventual cottonmouth; price; heartburn... okay, I'm reaching. It's a very good beer with insignificant faults. Thank you Blake, may the winds shift a little more in you favor. :) Notes from March 2024 2015 tap @Strangeways. 3.7 Tulip. Cola dark, decent cookie head, bit of ruby light peeking through. Fruity red wine, cola & cherry chocolate nose. Different but inviting. Taste is a bit to moderately oxidized. Dark grape & sharp cherry, fortified red wine, lemon, sweet n sour leaning sour, touch of chocolate. Lost a little complexity but gained pedestrian drinkability. Prefer it fresh but this is still good.

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

0.375 l bottle from 'Beer Republic'. A bit hazy, very deep ruby with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, beige head. Sweetish, slightly sourish, gently fruity aroma of sour cherry, marzipan and some oak. Slightly sweetish, gently sour, quite fruity taste of sour cherry, oak, elderberry and some lemon, followed by a short, gently tart, slightly woody-dry finish. Medium body, gently astringent and moderately effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Decent sour ale, quite different to a Belgian sour brown ale though.