Bottle from September 2015, finally cracked on 5/4/16.
Still very well carbonated with a light beige head topping a copper-golden body, with good clarity.
Sourness breaks through in the nose adding tart yellow and red fruits and a good deal of lactic character. Wine-like fruitiness is soft and tempered by the surprisingly still-strong spicing. At this point, it’s pretty enjoyable, but I’ve got to imagine 8 months ago it must have been nigh unbearable. Spicy, rye, lavender and sage-like notes combine with white pepper, oak, tons of funk and a bit of caramel-honey.
Very intensely flavorful with a huge malty texture that shows moderate to moderately high attenuation. Caramel-honey balances big sage and lavender notes as fruity and sour bacterial/yeast notes keep things quite funky. Barrel character is reserved/light, as it always is with OEC’s beers. Heavy carbonation, as the yeast/bacteria has been hard at work chewing through the sugars. A very intensely flavored beer that could use even another 6 months or a year....

750ml bottle pours a hazy, grapefruit red with some ringing, white head. Nose of lemon rind, grapefruit pulp, passion fruit curd. Flavor is tart with passion fruit, acid, grapefruit, lemon, some white wine. Solid.

LSAT Freedom Trip #152. Keg at the brewery. Hazy dark orange. Aroma of herbal notes, bready malt, spice, hay, mild grapes and caramel. The taste is red wine, strong herbal notes, oak, bready malt. Medium bodied, mild lingering tartness.

Bottle shared with friends. It pours cloudy golden-orange with a small white head. The nose is fresh, funky, sour fruits, sour peach, apricot, sherbet, vanilla, creamy coconut and candy. The taste is crisp, tart, good mouth - pucker, sour white peach, some acidity, sherbet, orange peel, sour green apple, funky, straw and wood with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Crisp, tart and quaffable. Good one.

Sampled at the brewery, 9/19/15. Cloudy orange with a thin head. Comes off quite sour with a wine barrel flavor as well. Well balanced from a mildly sweet, grape component. Clean finish.