Wine barrel aged sour ale by this highly accomplished craft brewer in Missouri, with 'black raspberries' added, a particular type of raspberries native to eastern North America. Thin, fuchsia ring for a head with a flat 'island' in the middle, over a hazy dark purple beer, a beautiful 'purpureus' glow reminiscent of the applied fruit itself. Aroma of lots and lots of ripe black raspberries, red wine vinegar, dry cookies, dried lemon peel, raisin, very coarse red wine and wet wine barrel, tomato peel, sesame seed. Crisp sour raspberry acidity in the mouth, drying and astringent but still with a small sweetish fructose core accentuating the richness of the fruit juicy aspect in this beer; blue plum-, red apple- and BlackBerry-like notes as well. Softish carb, slick, drying acidity penetrating a slick wheaty-bready-cracker-like malt body eventually dried even further by wine barrel tannins and remainders of the wine within; still the lemony fruit acidity remains overpowering. Perhaps a tad much so: allowing for a little bit more 'rotund' sweetness can truly lift this type of clever and carefully made modern sours to an even higher level. Other than that, a beautiful and original 'deep purple' sour in all respects.

Bottle: Poured a dark maroon with no head. Aroma is mixed berry a hint of oak . Taste is tart sour berry more oak wood.

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Tiny bottle sampled cheers to Max; cloudy light purple pour with a tiny off white head, aroma has funky raspberry, taste has big raspberry along with slight German sausage, quite funky.