Enigma
(has 3 batches)

Courtesy of Gillard. Thanks buddy. Pours mildly hazy with brownish body and thin off white head. The aroma starts fruity tart with a bowl full of tangelos where a couple have already gone bad and molded. I also get some grassiness and faint sweet cherries. The taste is much sweeter and smoother than the aroma led on with sweet fruitiness from ripe cherries, plums, ripe sweet raspberries and then a bit of tart cherry fruitiness. It slowly moves more and more tart as the taste progresses on toward the finish with tart fruitiness. It ends smooth and delicious with some tartness and fruitiness riding deep into the after taste carrying some mild malt base flavors.

Original batch. 12 oz. bottle very generously given to me by tjthresh. Pour is a slightly hazed golden orange, bronze with not much tan head to speak of and visible tiny carbonation bubbles. Initial aroma is vanilla, oak and sour. Very much a cherry sour. Beneath the vanilla, oak and cherry is some interesting spiciness. Very complex and engaging nose. Taste is sour cherries, vanilla oak woodiness, a hint of lemons and the spices from the nose. The finish is fairly drawn out, and is quite earthy - like fallen leaves. There is also a Black Cherry soda taste to the finish. As this warms, the complexity really comes out, as does the oakiness. The sourness is fairly subdued after the initial sip. Big palate, very mouth coating. On other sours this would have been annoying, but with this one it was nice. This one was a real treat, thank you for giving me this bottle, so many months ago, Tom.

Bouteille 12oz, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur . Nez de levures fruitées (cerises sûres, agrumes), de malt du genre caramel doux et moyen de sucre brun, boisé (fût de chêne) et de vanille. Moyenne-ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-fort et une texture moyennement crémeuse et aux notes sirupeuses (fruitées). Goût de levures sauvages fruitées sûres et aux notes acétiques (cerises sûres, léger de pommes vertes et cidreuses, notes d’agrumes ainsi que des traces de raisins) accompagné d’un goût boisé (fût de chêne, présent toute la gorgée) et d’un léger de vanile lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel vient se rajouter un goût malté de caramel doux aux notes terreuses ainsi qu’un moyen goût de sucre brun et des traces de pain puis en finale l’on retrouve une aigreur fruitée (cerises sûres) ainsi qu’un regain de goût de fût de chêne et de faibles notes d’alcool (bourbon). Post-goût long moyennement sec, aigre de fruits (moût de cerises sûres, pelures et pépins de pommes vertes) avec un goût boisé (fût de chêne) et des traces de vanille.

Bottle (from Ofortuna). Sour milk, cider and musty barnyard aroma. Cloudy orange brown color with small head. Initially a sweet orange/apple/vanilla flavor followed by a glancing flavor of caramel malt, then sour/tart finish. Brilliant.

Bottle: Pours what looks to be muddy water with no head. Aroma is rich with sweet and tart, just a bit of the oaky tones. Flavor is soft at first with a wet, sweet and tart feel. Then the pie cherries and with more intense tartness kicks in. Light woody notes and even a bit of vanilla. Thanks Footbalm for sending this treat.