Bottled@SBWF2013. Quite close to black colour, small head. Aroma is fruity, ripe dark fruits, some raisins, mild vanilla and sour wooden notes. Flavour is very similar with also some spiciness as well as mild floral and liquoricelike notes to it.

Batch #1: Rich, deep dark brown body with a light brown and ruby tint when held up to a light, and a good two centimetre tall deep brown head. Aroma of sour cherries, milk, roasted malt, alcohol, oak, vanilla, brett, yeast, hay, grass and even some light hops - very nice and complex nose. Medium-bodied; Assertive roasty flavours up front with coffee and chocolate noticeable, with quite a bit of brett and sour notes right afterwards, with a deep wine flavour, some oak and alcohol and a hint of bourbon and whiskey noticeable at the very end. Aftertaste shows a good blend of sour, roasty, alcohol, earthy, peaty and sweet flavours - with perhaps the roasty and oaky coming out the strongest, and even those lingering hints of milk more than the others - very interesting. Overall, a good beer, and well worth trying if you like stouts, porters and/or sours - this is a good mix and very neat to try. I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Brown Jug in Anchorage (Northern Lights Blvd) on 22-May-2013 for US$10.99 sampled at home in Washington on the other side of this great nation, a day after returning from Anchorage again. I didn’t keep this too long: Brewed March 2013 // Purchased May 2013 // Sampled October 2013

RBSG 2013. A sour stout. Mildly roasted grain and sour yeast. Black and decent palate. Sour finish.

Bottle sampled at RBSG. From notes. Chocolate and woody with a bunch of baking spices. Great sour.

750 ml bottle purchased at Louisville Beer Store. The pour is black brown with a smallish tan head. The aroma is a really interesting mix of roasted malt, lacto sour funk and a bright lemon citrus. Unusual combination, for certain, though it really works as the sour blends well with the fresh hops. The taste is the funk lacto up front, followed closely behind with the roast of the malt and the citrus of the hops. As with the nose, all flavors integrate nicely. As the beer warms, the red wine and barrel come out and take over for the lacto in the front of both the nose and the flavor. The palate is medium to light bodied with soft carbonation and a dry finish. Fun, well crafted beer.

Bottled:
Pours dark -as good as black- brown with a small head. Vinous aroma of cherries, oak casks and red wine. Tart flavour of sour cherries, oak casks, red wine and roasted malt, some smoke perhaps. Alcohol bitter finish. A bit demanding, but pretty good anyway.

Draught @ CBC 2013 [ Yellow Session ]. - Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2013, Sparta Hallen, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads 11, 2100 Copenhagen, DenmarkClear medium to dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, berry, barnyard, light alcohol. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, wood, brett, fruity - overriped fruit - dried fruit, dark malt. Body is medium to light, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130503]

750ml bottle thanks to Matt. Pours out pitch black with no head. Aroma of cherries, vinegar, roast malts, and some pit fruit. Taste is of roast, cherries, light pucker, and barrel