Bottle at Weathered 2022. Hazy copper with minimal off-white head. Port, red currant, lactic acid, very feint hint of coconut, enjoy it enough.

Bottle at Weathered 2022, pours a clear dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet and sour, with balsamic, sweet red berries, and red wine. Flavour is full of tannic red wine notes, red currants, and oak. Tart, lightly acetic, with a dry fruity finish. Good, but not a top-tier Flanders red.

A pour at I hope not a super spreader event Weathered. Appearance: hazy copper with a beige head. Aroma: very weird dirty vegetables with barrel notes. Taste: along the same lines, quite acidic and dirty. Overall: this is not good.

375ml green bottle. Pours a hazy red-brown with a small, foamy, short lived, beige head that leaves spotty lacing. Aroma of wheat malt, oak, red wine, balsamic vinegar, cherry, black currant, plum and faint coconut. Sweet flavour of wheat malt, red wine, balsamic vinegar, cherry, black currant, oak and Lacto in a tart, acidic finish. Medium body with an oily texture and lively carbonation. Delicious.

Reddish-brown colour. There was a head, but it dropped off pretty quickly. The aroma blends balsamic notes with brown sugar port accents. It's tart on the palate, but comes across lactic, not so vinegary. The port accents are more subtle on the palate, too, just a bit here and there. Probably just enough raisin to mellow the finish. Might be a touch too lactic, but it's a solid effort. As an aside, I assume port barrels would have had some usage back in the day for this style. I had Goudenband in the 90s (you could buy it at the SAQ), and a few others, but classic oud bruin seems a thing of the past at this point, at least in terms of what you can find in North America. So I almost don't even have a baseline to evaluate this style anymore. The heavy lactic does come across as new world, but without that baseline, it's hardly even relevant beyond random musings.