Love's Armor
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Capitola, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.60
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Love’s Armor is a blend of two complex, barrel-aged beers: Farmhouse Noir, a darker and stronger take on the saison style, and Chavez, our robust porter that we age on cherries. In the depths of this blend are full notes of chocolate and coffee, stone fruit and vanilla, with fainter wisps of tobacco, smoke and worn leather. A dry tartness pervades, providing an arena for robust interplay between malt-driven sweetness and microbe-induced funk. Deceptively potent and flavorful, Love’s Armor is meant for sharing, and will compliment the heartiest of meals. While shimmering now with flavors redolent of fine wine, encouraged to mature, Love’s Armor will reward patience.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
[1/30/16] Bottle sample at the Encomium bottle share, after RateBeer Best awards ceremony at Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa. Thanks everyone who shared bottles! Dark brown. Oak, cellar, funk, cherries, vinegar, sour, cobwebs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2016
at 18:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Almost opaque black liquid with small to medium tan head. Aroma of light coffee, lime, grain, wood, lemon peel and pineapple. Taste is dry snd light bitter with notes of chocolate, lime and grain. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2016
at 12:22
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of André. Pours hazy reddish black with a frothy mocha head that leaves some sparse trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty, tiny fruity and tiny funky with roasted malts, toasted cereal, dark bread, lemon juice, moist soil, tobacco, liquorice, barnyard and lemon zest. Taste is sour, malty, tiny fruity and slightly funky. Mouthfeel is soft, dry, tart and medium bodied. Finish is sour with roasted malts, toasted cereal, lemon juice, moist soil, damp hay, liquorice, burnt wood, barnyard, lemon zest and hints of alcohol. Solid sour stout. Pity sour stout still is pretty much impossible to pull off. --- Beer merged from original tick of Sante Adairius Love's Armor on 29 Dec 2015 at 23:23 - Score: 7. Original review text: Solid sour stout. Pity sour stout still is pretty much impossible to pull off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2015
at 16:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tasting at Matt’s
Dark brown color with sparse head. Intense aroma of dark malts, moderately sour, but also with a dusty note. Good body strength, yet the carbonation keeps the mouthfeel lean; a bit chocolately, and wisely sour; the final is drier and just a bit astringent.
Nice.
Dark brown color with sparse head. Intense aroma of dark malts, moderately sour, but also with a dusty note. Good body strength, yet the carbonation keeps the mouthfeel lean; a bit chocolately, and wisely sour; the final is drier and just a bit astringent.
Nice.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2014
at 01:27
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown with an amber tinge and a small beige head. Aroma brings out dark dried fruit, tobacco, tartness, and leather. Flavour is very complex, with leather and tobacco upfront, with some roast and light tart dark fruits. Very elegant and complex, with everything in perfect balance. Excellent beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2014
at 19:15