Bottle split Nov 2014. Pours clear orange amber color with a beige cap. Aroma: malty, sweet-ish, grape, red wine, oak. Taste: moderate to heavy sweet & bitter, light acidic, oak, red wine, dried fruits, warming alcohol. Medium+ body with soft carbonation.

2011 37.5 cl bottle aged ever since. Gusher allert. Pours muddy dark redbrown, foam dissapears instantly. Smell and taste confirm the fear : this beer is infected. Acidic, glue-notes over a barrel aspect with mild background sticky chocolaty sweetness. Even though the beer is said to be sour and funky on the bottle, this tastes like infection, more so than a desired tartness by spontaeous fermentation, or even kettle sour or sour mash' this beer is off. They did a good job packing it as a specialty, selling it as a desires aspect of the beer. but it's not. The tastes don't really work together, kinda clash' still drinkable, but not very enjoyable.

375ml bottle. Cloudy dark amber colour with small, micropored, creamy, fully lasting, beige head. "Rumtopf" aroma, notes alcohol soaked dried fruit, raisin, sultanine, some chocolate, a spicy touch of blue cheese, an alcoholic whiff. All flavours are reproduced in taste, warming alcoholic finish.

Bottle. Red-orange amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sourness, vinegar, raisin, oak, wine. Flavour is sourness, vinegar, raisin, oak, wine, caramel, alcohol, dried fruits. Full bodied nice beer.

Bottle 375ml. [ As 8 Wired Grand Cru 2011 ].Clear medium to dark orange amber color with many tiny sized body particles, with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sweet malt, grape, red wine, light wood. Flavour is light heavy sweet, light to light light moderate acidic and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long duration, oak, red wine, pale raisins. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20140704]

37,5 cl bottle @ home
Aroma is somewhat tart and vinous with red wine and woody tones. Flavour has red wine, vinegar, woody tones, some ripe fruits, tartish cherries and berry juice. Feels a bit thin and watery for this ABV. This has something in common with HOTD/Deschutes Collage. I would not recognize this as abt/quad.

375ml bottle

Pours dark reddish brown with a small head. Aroma of tart berries, vinous notes, wood, oak, plums, ripe fruits and loads of malts. Taste is smooth, warming, sweetish and woody with plums, ripe fruits, bretta, vinous notes and funky yeastiness. Finish is funky, sweetish and syrupy with notes of bretta, red wine, oak, tartness and ripe fruits. Quite nice and complex. I’d categorize this as a sour red/brown instead of abt/quadrupel though.

0.375l bottle brought home from 2d2dspuma. Gusher alert! It's most definitely cloudy this, near what can be described as murky. Not just brown in color, it's also slightly reddish/rusty and it has a small at first foamy, eventually islandy beige head on the top. It has so many nuances of different things on the nose this. Mainly it's tart woody with a little vinegar hint but it's also build up by lots of different types of sweet and tart fruits. Superbly complex! There's dark dates, prunes, lots of salty Linton berries and black currants. I get malt vinegar and white whine grapes. Chocolate is also detected here, the dark and really dry kind. Yeah, a superbly complex nose indeed and I really like it. It's way to aggressive on the carbonation this! Definitely over carbonated and it has a shockingly thin and near watery feeling in the mouth. That's a bit of a downer. The taste is quite nice though. Definitely not your average whatever this is. A quad? Well.. Tastes slightly infected, lots of sour white currants and slightly sharp white vine vinegar. It's really tasty though. Red salty and tart Linton berries, lots of slightly mouthdrying wood. Traces of cocoa and chocolate wrapper in the finish. Lots and lots of flavor. The abv is quite elegantly masked, even if it feels surprisingly light in the mouth. Yeah, I quite enjoyed this strange but really complex creation. 13.09.2014