19-11-17 // bottle sharing in Frankfurt. Brownish beer small beige head. Nose rasperry sour. Intense malty sour, rasperry. Tart. Fruity sour. Awesome.

(Tap sample @ CBC 2016 Blue Session, Copenhagen) Pours something like brown and red at the same time with an orange cast and rainbow trout-coloured head, interesting. Aroma is predictably raspberry heavy, with a bunch of smoky toasty malt backing it, Ovaltine, dry chocolate cake, minimal fruit acidity, barrel is likely amplifying the malty notes but not whiskey-heavy. Flavour is unusually sweet and full for CS thanks to malt notes that balance the fruity acidity. Notes of raspberry, sweetish dark cake with hints of chocolate, dark grains, a bit of red wine, wood, some dusty Brett, earth, lightly funky overall. Some lactic acidity appears in the back and truncates the finish with lemony freshness. No alcohol heat. Medium bodied. Really good sour, the focus is up front rather than lingering but the balance is well-executed.

Bottle thanks to Chow. Pours a clear ruby with medium pinkish head that lasts. The aroma is strong raspberry, brett, and oak. Medium body, jammy, berry, funk, low acidity, nice tartness, hides alcohol well, enjoyed this.

Aromat slodkich malin, smak kwasnych malin, bdb ale wole wersje bez malin. Jest tez slodkosc. Ryli niezle

Pours almost a pitch black if it weren’t for the red , small pinkish head of foam. Minimal lacing.
Smells of tart raspberries, mild funk, wood, has some acetic aromas.
Smacked in my face with the tart raspberries, a bit of funk and wood, much sourness in an acetic kind of way. This is like I asked Crooked Stave to brew a beer with exactly the proper mix of ingredients that I wanted them to and they did it. Beer of 2017 for me? Perhaps.