6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

23.08.2024, 0,375l bottle (stamped 3/2/19) @ home:
Nice fizzy shortlasting head, cloudy golden color. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, berry skin, sour raspberry candy, grass, oak, leafs, sour red/dark berries. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, sour dark berries, oak, grass, berry skin, leafs, mild vinegar, sour raspberry candy, bark. Medium bitterness, dry sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Nice enough.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda at home thanks to Wingman. a mostly clear amber red coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is tart cherry, woody cherry, [rickly sour, jammy cherry, oak. Flavour is composed of semi sweet and sour, woody fruit pips, cherry, oak tannin, . Little musty funk, oaky. Palate is semi sweet, prickly sour, good funk, prickly carbonation. Good.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 05/02/21. Hazed orange amber with a decent off white covering. Nose is tarte cherry skins, light funk, hay bale, damp wood, berry skins, mellow citric zest, lemon tinged straw. Taste comprises tarte cherries, hay bale, stoned fruits, berry pips, grains, sharp berries. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light acidic tickle. Decent enough easy drinking sour.

7.8

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

Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Gathering, After Corona , June 2020. Pours Hazy amber Golden with a White head. Nose is Dusty , tannic and not very fruit forwarded. Flavor is jammy and tart. Lots of cherries and a slash of Big red chewing gum. Prickly tartness.

7

Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Gathering, After Corona, June 2020. Hazy orange with a lasting white head. Weak aroma of funk and red berries. Dry and tart fruity flavour with red berry, toasty malt and a sharp sour finish.

8

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

Rating #8007, Beer #15 of 17 (8 beers on either side of #8000 plus the magic 8000th itself) Very clear, deep copper, bronze and almost even light brown in colour, with a light orange glow when held up to the light and almost no head at all - a sliver of off-white noticeable. Aroma of cherries, light grain, a dash of oak and soured, vinegar notes along with a touch of brett and way more cherry notes, all slightly soured and tart. Light to Medium-bodied; Very strong soured and tart flavours up front with a bunch of cherries, a touch of blueberry and raspberries and a good hit of oak towards the finish that makes this very soured, incredibly tart, but still complex throughout. Aftertaste shows a lot of effervescence along with a great cherry and light berry flavour that roam definitely on the side of tart and soured, but less in the realm of 'wild' or the flora in this one, as it's fairly tame and soft after the beer as it doesn't taste like the spontaneous fermentation or complexity of full yeast and funk. Overall, a very nice, very soured beer with a ton of dryness, herbs and of course enjoyable throughout. A very good option, with the full sour and tart elements that are usually present with Almanac beers behind this one, but in pure tart ways - with the cherries easily overpowering any sweetness and focusing on the pure tart flavours - in a great way. This was the fifteenth beer of my 8000th celebration, the sixth on the 'other side' of 8000, and was a beer for everyone to try to find, especially if you like sours, as this one is great in showing what fruit can do to a beer. I sampled this 37,5 cL bottle purchased from Joe Canal's Discount Liqour in Lawrenceville, New Jersey on 21-October-2018 for US$12,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 02-May-2020, as Beer #15 of the 8000th Beer Celebration!

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

How: Bottle. Where: Had at home. Appearance: Hazy dark golden colour with a white head. Aroma: Raspberries, sour, cherries, funk, berries. Body: Medium body and carbonation. Flavour: Sour, raspberries, citric, berries, funk, cherries.

7.6

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

Bottle shared at a tasting at troubles' place. Cloudy orange. Cherries, berries, funk, lacto, oak, vanilla note, sour, juicy. Great stuff.