Cuvée Per
(has 1 batch)

Bottle at home. Slight hazy deep golden with small white head. Lots of wine and oak up front, apricot, quite lactic, alcohol, cornflakes and oats, light grassy, aquavit. Medium sweet and sour. Solid medium bodied with low carbonation. Typical Alvinne, but there's something here I don't really like, it's the aquavit like aromas.

Cloudy pale amber with a small head. Bretts, tannins, basement, soaked apples, grass, slightly toasted. Vinous. Pretty sour, light hop bitterness. Not bad.

Cognac-coloured beer with an off-white rim. Acetic & lactic nose, brown sugar dissolved in the acids and wood-lagered; chocolate, dried red fruit, winecasks. Soupy - with a mineral flavour, I suspect DMS in higher concentration giving a shellfish flavour. Again winecasks, dried red fruit and lactic acid - no more acetic. Some acidburn and lots of -thinning, lively carbonation. Less aggressive than some of the Morpheus line. Txs to Stef!

Sour, fruity, a bit tart. Red grapes, really vinous and tannic, malty, a bit musty, complex, low acidity. Nice.

Strong sour ale aged on red wine barrels (the famous Châteauneuf-du-Pape, no less) named after Per Lindberg, a Swedish beer enthousiast and avid fan of Alvinne. Medium thick, membrane-like lacing, firm, moussy, pale greyish off-white, thinning but relatively well-retaining head on a hazy pale brownish-tinged 'dark blonde' beer, 'amber' with some goodwill, turning a bit more cloudy brownish amber further on. Aroma of red apple, pickled apricot, sourdough, bread crumbs, damp autumn leaves, grape juice, wine gums somewhere, figs in 'jenever', dry earth to even farmland, wet oak wood (with some background vanilla), wine leaves, medlar, caramel or rather caramelizing brown sugar, unsugared chewing gum, milk gone sour, stewed and sugared rhubarb, vague hints of bergamot and dried thyme. Tart onset but nowhere harshly so, mitigated by an underlying sweetishness, quite fruity with impressions of red grapes, red apple, pear, medlar and ripe blackberries; lactic sourness continues rather gently through a moderately (or even softly) carbonated bready and dryish middle phase, where lightly caramelly and bready malts meet drying sourness, a sherry vinegar-like accent without the sharpness, and soft woodiness. Fruitiness, lively as ever, travels along into a tart but juicy, quite softish, earthy, warming finish, where hops - though still providing a leafy background bitterishness - remain subordinate to malty sweetness and yeasty earthiness and sourness. The red wine adds further tartness, fruitiness and vinosity, but does not deeply alter the flavour 'parcours' anymore at this point - its red grape juiciness having been apparent from the start. Not a spectacular finish in this case: like Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony, the flavours and colours just quietly fade, into a dim echo of dark fruits, lactic acid and wine tartness which all were there from the start. A bit of an oddity even for Alvinne, in which all the flavours present themselves at an early stage and remain the same till the end - so 'exciting' is not a term I would apply here. Instead, this very eccentric interpretation of 'oud bruin' (the closest traditional thing it can be linked to) is rather a source of contemplation, stillness and, if I may, meditation. Fruity for sure, in a 'dark red' way if you get my drift, but not the explosion of flavours I found in many other of the countless Alvinne sour variations - yet still somehow very satisfying. The beauty truly lies in its relatively 'quiet' character. If I were in this mr. Lindberg's place, I certainly would have been flattered, but I do not know him in person so who knows to which extent this creation reflects his personality... Nevertheless: skål Per!

Dark brown colour, no foam. Nose of red wine, balsamic vinegar, wood, fruity, rather bitter finish and some varnish notes.

Bottle. Color: Clear brownish red (amber), very thin off-white head. Aroma: Vinuous, tart red wine, red fruit. Taste: Quite strong vinuous red wine, light to moderate tart, some red fruit, caramel malt, light sweetness. Some oak wood, vanilla hints. Some Balsamico vinegar. Medium body, below average carbonation. Typical Alvinne. Nice one.

Cloudy, reddish color and a small white head. Tart and fruity nose, balsamico. Sour, red berries, black currant, faint acidic, balsamico. Herbal bitterness at finish.

Goed brouwsel, zoet en zuur en brettig gestoord. Woelig als de vacht van een wolharige mammoet. Net zo zuur ook waarschijnlijk. Verder proef ik druivenmost en is het vrij stevig van kaliber. Zie ik die vrolijke Glenn voor me en dan een zwart gat. Proost.