Sour Cherry Ale
Steamworks Brewing in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.95
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An intriguing fruit beer brewed with fresh sour cherries. Our Sour Cherry Ale is inspired by the centuries old Belgian tradition of brewing beer with cherries. This high gravity brew undergoes a slow second fermentation with tons of fresh, whole Montmorency cherries from a local orchard in the Fraser Valley. The result is a most intriguing beer with an elegant cherry perfume, a tart, fruity flavour, and a subtle almondy finish. -on tap during September.
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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
re-rate Slightly reddish accent to what is ultimately an orange beer. Aroma is of candy cherries and little else. I should mention that this beer is bright - years ago when Shirley Warne was brewer is was gloriously muddy (ok, I only scored it a three but I remember it better than that) and one of the best fruit beers on the planet. Today is has a strong woody, balsamic note with heady alcohol (reportedly over 8%). There is astringency as well, which clashes with the candyish fruit. Clumsy and styleless, a mockery of its former self.
original rating: 1997 Made with the new years’ harvest of sour cherries from the Fraser Valley. Reddish muddy looking. The beer is based on wheat, but there is so much more going on. Perhaps the complexity develops from the lactobacillus infection, the use of whole fruit in the secondary fermentation, fermented to the pit, or the wild yeasts that are present in the skins. No matter, really, this beer is very complex and astonishingly balanced. A fruit beer for true beer lovers. AR 8 AP 3 FL 8 P 4 O 16
original rating: 1997 Made with the new years’ harvest of sour cherries from the Fraser Valley. Reddish muddy looking. The beer is based on wheat, but there is so much more going on. Perhaps the complexity develops from the lactobacillus infection, the use of whole fruit in the secondary fermentation, fermented to the pit, or the wild yeasts that are present in the skins. No matter, really, this beer is very complex and astonishingly balanced. A fruit beer for true beer lovers. AR 8 AP 3 FL 8 P 4 O 16
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from Can
on 30 Jun 2002
at 07:39