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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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Aroma is mostly tart and vinous with some red and white wine notes. It is also quite fruity with tart cherry and plums. Some faint chocolate and roast notes, but this leans more towards fruit and wine in the aroma. Pours a dark brown with lighter highlights on the edges. Thin tab head recedes fairly quickly but leaves behind moderate lacing. Medium sized legs. Flavor is rather tart with lots of cherry and plum. There is also a bit of a wine character, fruity like a Pinot Noir. Not much roast at all and only a light chocolate note in the finish. There are hints of tobacco and leather in the finish as well. A really nice dark sour beer with tons of fruit. Light bitterness and fairly dry in the finish. Sourness is refreshing without being mouth puckering. No horse blanket style funk, just tart cherry funk. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and moderate alcohol warmth. Overall a very enjoyable beer though most of the dark malt character has receded to the finish which I actually find more enjoyable. I could certainly drink a bottle of this to myself. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2013
at 19:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark mahogony beer with a dark cream head. Tart and light dark malt aroma. Tart flavor with light fruitiness and wine characteristics. Medium bodied. Tart and light fruitiness linger with wine and light oak. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2013
at 10:40