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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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
What the Funk, Denver, October 2014. Pours a darkish red brown appearance with a thin brown head. Twangy, somewhat funky flavor. Fairly roasty and fairly hoppy. There’s also some additional tannins and a bit of leather. A little bit of spiciness in the background as well. I wasn’t a huge fan of this but others at the festival did really enjoy it.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2014
at 18:32
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Cloudy prune color. Nose is grape forward with cherry persimmon. Taste is minor stale with oak forward ash, cocoa and hay. Tannic bright grape and wild. Very close to phenomenology of spirit in both taste and mouthfeel.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2014
at 09:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Aaron. It pours darkest brown with a thick light tan head. The nose is tangy, sour green apple, lemon, toast, candy, light roast and sour fruit salad. The taste is smooth, tart, light toast, lemon, green apple, sherbet, sour sweets, candy, fruit salad, citrus and mild acidity. Medium body and fine carbonation. A smooth, crisp and rather approachable sour. Well balanced and tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2013
at 08:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at CBC Clerkenwell in London - big thanks to Aaron. Pours dark brown with a creamy, tan head. Acetic berries in the nose with some decent tangy funk. Light sweet flavor with strong, bracing acetic berry twang, faint vinegar, ripe blackberries. Medium bodied with fine, fizzy carbonation. Good sour berry finish with further acetic punch and a bit of funk. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2013
at 16:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle split at CBC, big thanks to Aaron for hauling this one over the pond - he was so keen to see us all again he came 5 months early ! 05/12/13. Murky mahogony brown with a thin tan swirl and edgework. Nose is tartened dark fruits, burnt plum notes, dank straw, smoke, touch of dry rot, dark berry fruit, dirty wood. Taste comprises light burnt notes, dank straw, funky, tarte blueberries, barnyard, dark fruits. Medium bodied, fine carbonation leading to a dry finale with a lactic tang. Top draw sour affair!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2013
at 16:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
5th December 2013
Bottle tasting at Craft Clerkenwell. Thanks to Aaron. Opaque dark brown beer with a small pale tan head. Palate is crispy and dry. Mild minerals. Tangy dark fruits with a touch of sour cherry. Little sherbet and coca cola, well buried. Finishes light and crisp. Good.
Bottle tasting at Craft Clerkenwell. Thanks to Aaron. Opaque dark brown beer with a small pale tan head. Palate is crispy and dry. Mild minerals. Tangy dark fruits with a touch of sour cherry. Little sherbet and coca cola, well buried. Finishes light and crisp. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2013
at 14:09
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - thanks to Mike for the share! Pours opaque brown with a small tan head and decent lacing. Aroma is interesting with notes of tart cherry, roastiness, and oak. Flavor is the same, with oaky and roasty notes mixing quite well with the tart and bit of funk. Light tart, light sweet, with light astringence from the time spent in the wood. Perhaps some cigarette action going on as well. Medium body. Interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2013
at 23:02
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at the Deanso’s monthly RB tasting, July 2013. Poured a dark brown with a thin off-white broken head. The aroma is sour! Yes, you know what’s coming next! The flavour is medium sour, lots of acidity with some weak grapefruit citrus on the palate. A super beer actually if you are a sour-head.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2013
at 13:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Dean’s sticky table tasting. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of grapes, light barnyard, sharp fruit, malt. Flavour is moderate acidic and light to moderate sweet. Medium to full bodied with light carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2013
at 13:19