7.4

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

Bottle shared during Bingohame Bimble kindly donated by SHIG cheers Sleepy Shawn; dark opaque brown brown pour, bubbly thin tan head, aroma has dark fruits and chocolate, taste has some sour fruits, aggressive alcohol, some cocoa, black grapes, ok

7.4

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

Bottled 375ml. -at Goblet Zagreb. Black coloured, small brownish head, fruity caramel nose. Caramel, light fruity and spicy with touch of chocolate and wood. Some leather and bratt as well with bretty finish. 9.5%ABV

8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle picked up from Beer Republic, nr Breda Netherlands, consumed at home Friday 8th January 2021 listening to Iggy Pop on 6 Music, we had a Chicken Chaat from the Curry Guy book and Chaana Dhal with Golden Garlic Tarka. Pours dark brown with a little ruby glint, good clarity, off white creamy textured head atop. The nose is a little brambly and with some jam it hints at sourness to come. Nice flavours, this is really good, tangy, tart, sweet initially but then wonderfully sour, berries in abundance, funky, some leather. The jam comes through in the mouth also but wow this is so zappy, woody, a little earthy it's a very complex but hugely interesting beer, love this.

8

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

Dark sour by this trusted Alaskan craft brewery (since 2010), aged in different barrels and fruited with 'Marion' blackberries, an American cultivar of blackberries, fermented with a Belgian yeast, a mix of classic wild bacteria and yeasts in this case so apparently intended - loosely - as a kind of 'oud bruin'. My rating here concerns batch #5, which bears 9.5% ABV rather than the 8.5% given here and is apparently two years old now; comes from a sturdy 37.5 cl bottle with cork and muselet. Thinnish, pale greyish beige, mousy, tiny-bubbled head, opening quickly and at first leaving behind a thin ring and a lone patch of flat foam in the middle, but then dissolving completely; initially clear, very dark brown beer (blackish in general appearance) with wine red glow, misty with sediment. Quite strong and complex aroma of indeed (sour) blackberries, moldy walnut shells, very dry red wine, apple vinegar, dry forest floor, toasted brown bread, brandy rather than whisky but a bourbon-y touch is certainly there, Bretty 'horseblanket' but not too sweaty or urine-like, passionfruit, dry old madera, dusty old wooden barrels, old tea bags, dried prunes, old pecan nuts, bitter unripe blueberries, autumn tree leaves, violets, wet nutmeg, fried hedgehog mushrooms, marmite, crabapple. Very tart and fruit-acidic onset, blackberries indeed in a tangy, sour but fleshy way, wild apple and unripe stonefruit wryness, with just a touch of sweetness hidden within; the sourness develops further into the direction of red wine vinegar - but then fortunately stops where it would otherwise become too sharp and where it would disfigure the beer's basic structure too much. Softly carbonated (in fact almost flat in the end), very vinous but full mouthfeel; rounded hard-nutty and brown-bready malt core, dried by the sourness, which evolves from fleshy-fruity blackberry acidity to a more 'general' lactic acidity, with just that edge of vinegar on the sides to keep you alert. Nut shell- and tree leaf-like effects in the finish when the barrels' woodiness sets in, very tannic, in that respect reinforced by the seeds and skins of the berries I suppose, but more so by the sourness; dusty and bready aspects, quite 'dark' and earthy in all, I can almost smell the Alaskan forests in autumn even if I have never been there. The tangy dark fruitiness of the blackberries remains nicely fleshy and juicy, thanks to the connection with the red wine barreling effects - indeed the finish does bear elements very reminiscent of very dry, mature red wine, while the whisky effect remains limited to a warming, somewhat astringent alcohol glow in the end - yet the astringency in this case is also linked to the wild fermentation and the fruit, of course, so that everything comes together nicely. Late, earthy, clearly very roasted as well as hoppy bitterness dominates the tail - something that took me a while to get used to, honestly speaking, because sour ales do not typically contain outspoken bitterness, but this all got better when I began to see this beer as a sour stout of sorts... In any case vinous, warming, complex, earthy and fruity finish, with indeed that old dusty, 'horseblanket', haystack-like Brett effect returning retronasally. Bone dry, I assume the wild yeast has eaten most of the sugars by now; still it behaves decently, and remains well in balance with the bacterial effects (Lactobacillus and Pediococcus). That roasted bitterness lingers for quite a while. Wild it is, this Anadromous, but in a beautifully elaborated, complex, balanced way; I did find the finishing bitterness a little bit annoying at times, interfering too much with that play of sourness, dryness, woodiness and fruitiness, but it did not prevent me to deeply enjoy and even joyfully contemplate this creation. I love how the Americans have taken old European beer traditions and made them much bigger in scope, more varied and more expressive; that goes for Belgian Flemish red or oud bruin as well, thanks to the efforts of institutions like New Belgium, Allagash, Crooked Stave, Jester King and so on - and I guess I'll have to add Anchorage to that long and still growing list as well from now on.

6.9

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

Bottle. A- Woody, cocoa powder, grapes. A- Dark color, dark liquid, light brown head. T- Fruity, cocoa powder, mild brett, tangy, woodsy, grapes. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, tangy finish. O- This wasn't the funk it all to be that I expect from Anchorage. Fairly balanced but a solid tang throughout. Got a lot of fruity cocoa bean flavors but nothing really dominated the palate. Good but I wasn't in awe.

5

Acidotic, super tart, sour whiskey.

7.5

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

12.7 oz corked and caged bottle. Batch 5. Aroma is dark fruit, raisin, brett, chocolate, leather, tobacco, wood, wet stone. Pours black with brown edges and a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is highly sour (8/10), finishing with a moderate bitterness; flavors of lacto, brett, dark fruit, oak. Complexx and good.

7.3

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

Tap at Peders. Pours black. Aroma and flavor are sour, black current, roast, acidic, oak. Overall: good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Anadromous Belgian Black Bier on 18 May 2019 at 16:24. Original review text: bl

8

Batch 5

7

Sour, black current, roast, acidic, oak. Tulin untappdu bagde-i pärast aga päris lahe koht.isegi flighti pakuvad.