Pours a pale orange-ish gold. Quite cloudy. Solid head. Lots of fine white bubbles. Very good retention with some nice lacing. Aroma is sweet strawberry jam with some background barrel flavor, lightly buttery oak and some deeper grapey-ness. Strawberries seem to be a hard fruit to use in sours. They seem to contribute a rubbery/plasticky touch, and while it’s present in this beer, it’s minimal and handled well against the flavors contributed from the wine barrel. There’s a touch of light funk, as well. The taste is light to medium tart. There’s a little bit of strawberry sweetness up front, but it fades out, and the finish is tart and moderately dry. Lots of strawberry flavor. A touch of that rubber flavor, mostly in the finish, and it kinda fades in and out, much less than some strawberry sours that I’ve tried. The barrel seems to contribute some light vinous flavor, some blackberry/raspberry and mild oak. Very solid taste. A little bit of body, though it’s generally light and lively. Medium pucker - pretty firm sourness in the back of the throat. Almanac continues to impress me with their Farmer’s Reserve sours. I’m looking forward to more.

Bottle. Pours cloudy orange gold with white head. Nose and taste of fresh strawberry, fresh tangerine/nectarine, white wine, oak, peach, wild yeast and tangy citrus funk. Medium body. Moderate well balanced acidity.

Bottle. Pours hazy golden yelow with a medium fizzy head that mostly dissipates very quickly leaving a ring of foam that laces decently. Aroma is funky, lemon, fruity, wood notes, vinaceous notes. Flavor is lightly sweet at the start, medium tart, a bit barnyard funky, drying out quickly to leave a try tart finish. Fruity, woody, vinaceous. Perhaps strawberry, but I might just be fooling myself on that one. Medium body, high effervescence in the mouth; too much really in the first few sips, but it tones down nicely after that. Very nice sour offering from Almanac yet again!