Yes, Lots of quince, orange and limette. Nose of Orange and quince, fruity and sour. Taste Is sour, Lemon, followed by fresh orange Juice and quince on the palate. Some Woody flavors at finish Thx for sharing, @Dorain

Bottle. Clear golden. Quite some funk, quince, creamy wheat, lemon zest. There’s soft oak and wine, but mostly there’s nice grains and a solid lactic sourness. Some residual sweetness too. Medium bodied. Quite sour, but nice.

Hazy blond colour, white foam. Nose of tart unripe fruit, funk, vinous notes. Taste is tart, fruity, notes of peach. Very well balanced.

One of Alvinne’s Fellowship beers of last year (sold till the beginning of this year), named after the crystal balls (“palantíri”) from Tolkien’s fantasy world; this elaborate sour ale is apparently a wine barrel aged blend of homemade ‘lambic’ with a fruited sour ale, the fruit in question being quince. Egg-white, cobweb-lacing, moussy, stable head on a cloudy warm peach blonde beer with pale orangey glow. Aroma of white yoghurt, green pear and green apple or indeed (raw) quince, sourdough, white currant, unripe grapes, wet oak wood, green plums, honeysuckle flowers, unripe mandarin, lemongrass, touch of sweat and chalk. Quite sharply sour initially – lemony and puckering, with the astringency of the quince element accentuating it, adding a ‘hard green pear’ and apple peel dimension to it; strong yet ‘refined’ carbonation, slick cereally and white-bready malt core dried by lactic sourness (white yoghurt, sourdough) while that unripe and ‘hard green’ fruitiness continues, connecting with a light touch of white grape faraway in the finish, coming from the wine barrel. The lactic sourness remains elegant, fruity and refreshing, while the oak from the barrels adds nobility and depth and the wine and quince aspects intertwine to a lasting ‘green fruit astringency’. Interesting, classy sour ale, typical for Alvinne and worth seeking out, even in spite of the hefty price tag.

Tasty!