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

BCTC’09. Brewer said they used their Aviator Irish Red recipe as a base for this beer. Unfortunately, they make an amazing Irish Red and not such a special Flanders Red. Dark copper, dirty mahogany color, with not much red to it. Aroma is aceto, wet wood, and a sweet candied bark aspect, not as good as it sounds though. Right away you could tell the aceto is just not working in tandem with the other parts. Flavor is faintly acetic-like aceto, with that dirty cherry (which is good) and not much else. Needs a thicker malt backbone and in general it is a bit too allover the place. But still a doable sour.