Bottle thanks to Dennis. Pours a cloudy copper with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is leather, oak, rum, spice. Thin body, oak, leather, spice, very sour, dry finish, good.

Shared at Hopishop 2016, thanks 77Ships! Aroma of red fruit, rum booze, oak and lacto sour. Flavor of soft red fruit, oak, boozy rum, lacto sour and some vanilla. Good stuff.

Bottle shared by 77ships at Hopishop’s B.U.M.B. tasting, cheers! Apparently a rum barrel aged version of Abbaye de St. Bon Chien, the flagship beer of Switzerland’s most acclaimed craft brewery. Moussy, lightly lacing, off-white head over a hazy brownish bronze beer with burgundy hue. Aroma of passion fruit, sherry vinegar, dry wood, vanilla, redcurrant, caramel, crabapple, brown bread, rum indeed but subtle. Estery, fruity onset, gooseberry, brambleberry, cranberry - nicely ’rounded’ tart with a sweet core, initially spritzy carbo calming down in the end and in that sense leading to a more vinous mouthfeel. Red wine vinegar-like sourness increases throughout the palate with drying effect, but never too much, leaving a ’full’, lightly bready and caramelly malt core intact, as it ought to be in an ’oud bruin’ - even if it is a rather ’exotic’ interpretation like this. Finishes in wine-ish drying tartness, warming alcohol, pleasant dryish wood tannins, some earthy yeasty notes and vanilla-like oak accents; the rum flavor is noticeable but remains subtle. Fortunately for me, because I hate rum and have rather disliked rum barrel aged beers in the past because of it; in this case, however, it doesn’t bother me at all and I thoroughly enjoyed this somewhat quirky, barley wine-strength interpretation of the Flemish red style.

Bouteille 37.5cl, embouteillée 2015 anno MMXIII. Ambre, présentant un léger col dès le service mais retombant très rapidement et assez effervescent. Arôme offre un nez qui est plutôt modéré au niveau rhum, retrouve un bouquet funk modéré comparé à d’autres produits BFM, léger malté et certain biscuité sont accompagnées de notes vertes. Palais met en évidence les 11% par une petite touche de chaleur, malté caramel, léger boisé avec un rappel rhum dans son caractère presque sucre de canne-roux. Agrumes et une pointe de pamplemousse qui accompagnent un profil qui vient titiller le palais. L’effet ’sour’ reste discret et j’attendais un peu plus du rhum surtout pour le prix de la bouteille qui n’est franchement pas donné.

Cappped 375 from Bine & Vine. Pours copper with a very slight beige head. Aroma of rum and berry - tending to suggest spicy calvados in rum barrels. Med body or so. Flavor is red berry, oak, some rummishness and it’s just lightly tart/sour. Very good. BFM light in a way.

Dark amber color with hardly head. Very much spiciness, sweet, vanilla, maple. Complex. More dark fruits and more sugar and vanilla than the usual SBC. Prunes, sweet fruitiness, very rich. The sourness is very balanced. Smooth mouthfeel. Amazingly strong barrel. The regular Saint Bon Chien is a bit better in terms of overall balance I think.