Tap at Drunk Uncle. A decent enough stab at a Flanders Red or Oud Bruin, but equally a test tube American Sour too, as it lacks the oak tone. Some malt, which is nice, but still sour as well. Good, not great.

Taster at Rotary GroveFest Beer Garden, Downers Grove. Amber brown body, with just a little haze. Tartness on the tongue is pleasant. Could have used a little more fizz to go along with the sourness, but that's okay. Sourness seems closest to a green apple. More malt to it than the average sour ale, and a bit too hearty on a hot day like this. But fine.

From a can straight from Illinois, thanks SterV for the tick! Initially high, beige-ish pale yellow, but loosely structured head, yet fizzing away like the head on a glass of coke and eventually vanishing altogether; hazy peachy amberish colour with ruddy hue. Aroma of blue plum juice, maracuja, redcurrant berries, lime juice, hay, old brown paper, caramel, honey, bread crust, nutmeg, soap. Lively fruity onset, lots of passionfruit and redcurrant, lime juice-like acidity but very mellow, medium carbo, smooth and slick mouthfeel; simple lactic tartness somewhat dries a caramelly sweet, even bit honeyish and lightly bready maltiness; the crisp sweetish-and-sour fruit flavours linger a bit as well as a certain soapiness and caramelliness while hop bitterness goes by as good as unnoticeably. Simplified, very accessible, non-wood-aged, probably kettle soured, 'basic' interpretation of an 'oud bruin', somewhat akin to New Belgium's La Folie but simpler, thinner and without the depth of barreling. That said, it does have that mellow, caramelly and bready malt sweetness positioned against the sourness, which remains altogether soft and superficial, but not in a bad way. Nothing too ambitious going on here, but well-balanced, crisp, clean and pleasant enough to drink.

Can into a snifter showing lightly filtered very dark dried caramel brownish orange with sparse lightly tanned foam. The nose shows a yuzu forwardness with very subtle notes of cinnamon. The palate is highly carbonated and light bodied. Lightly tart but highly acetic with flavors of dry citric orange with a strong ginger-like spiciness until the finish.