Primordial Noir
Cascade Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.58
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Primordial Noir is a blend of imperial red ales aged in bourbon and wine barrels for up to two years with Northwest-grown Bing cherries and spices. A concentrated precursor to our Sang Noir project, Primordial Noir features a more robust bourbon and cherry presence with notes of roast malt, molasses and baking spices.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Deep red with a low head - Sour berry and wood aroma - Sour berry and wood barrels flavours - The sour flavours goes into a long finish - This was good
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2026
at 22:40
8/10
Shared with Bergstaden.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2026
at 21:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500mL bottle, from random liquor store in CT, sitting upright on the warm shelf at 8 years old, drunk 11/19/25. As pictured.
Well, that's not great. The cork comes out with literally zero noise and the beer is very nearly flat.
Doesn't smell bad or oxidized, though. Just a lot of grape with a hint of bourbon and oak. Fruity, juicy, lots of mineral. Some maltiness even. No alcohol or big acidity, though there's light acetic and moderate lactic.
Well, just goes to show the resilience of barrel aged beer. Almost no carbonation (not none, though, but incredibly low), and yet it's in fine shape. Very wine-like, with guarded acetic and rounded lactic acidity. Soft bourbon and soft, buttery oak with a chewy texture remaining somehow. You get a good deal of fruitiness, but everything is so well-homogenized at this point that you can't even definitively say there are cherries or spices in this.
Well, that's not great. The cork comes out with literally zero noise and the beer is very nearly flat.
Doesn't smell bad or oxidized, though. Just a lot of grape with a hint of bourbon and oak. Fruity, juicy, lots of mineral. Some maltiness even. No alcohol or big acidity, though there's light acetic and moderate lactic.
Well, just goes to show the resilience of barrel aged beer. Almost no carbonation (not none, though, but incredibly low), and yet it's in fine shape. Very wine-like, with guarded acetic and rounded lactic acidity. Soft bourbon and soft, buttery oak with a chewy texture remaining somehow. You get a good deal of fruitiness, but everything is so well-homogenized at this point that you can't even definitively say there are cherries or spices in this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2025
at 23:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500mL bottle, from random liquor store in CT, sitting upright on the warm shelf at 8 years old, drunk 11/19/25. As pictured.
Well, that's not great. The cork comes out with literally zero noise and the beer is very nearly flat.
Doesn't smell bad or oxidized, though. Just a lot of grape with a hint of bourbon and oak. Fruity, juicy, lots of mineral. Some maltiness even. No alcohol or big acidity, though there's light acetic and moderate lactic.
Well, just goes to show the resilience of barrel aged beer. Almost no carbonation (not none, though, but incredibly low), and yet it's in fine shape. Very wine-like, with guarded acetic and rounded lactic acidity. Soft bourbon and soft, buttery oak with a chewy texture remaining somehow. You get a good deal of fruitiness, but everything is so well-homogenized at this point that you can't even definitively say there are cherries or spices in this.
Well, that's not great. The cork comes out with literally zero noise and the beer is very nearly flat.
Doesn't smell bad or oxidized, though. Just a lot of grape with a hint of bourbon and oak. Fruity, juicy, lots of mineral. Some maltiness even. No alcohol or big acidity, though there's light acetic and moderate lactic.
Well, just goes to show the resilience of barrel aged beer. Almost no carbonation (not none, though, but incredibly low), and yet it's in fine shape. Very wine-like, with guarded acetic and rounded lactic acidity. Soft bourbon and soft, buttery oak with a chewy texture remaining somehow. You get a good deal of fruitiness, but everything is so well-homogenized at this point that you can't even definitively say there are cherries or spices in this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2025
at 23:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From tap at Cascade Brewing Barrel House, Portland. Aroma is big tart cherries, wood, vinegar, molasses, tart red fruits, caramel malt. Flavour is quite puckering long sour flavour. Body is medium to full. Big one, a bit Port-like with tons of barrel notes.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Feb 2025
at 04:45
8/10
On tap @El Cabanon, Avilés. 26/12/2022. Color oscuro, corona escasa, aromas madera, licorasa sabor vinosa, ácida cuerpo medio.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Dec 2022
at 20:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Mig & Ølsnedkeren. Pours hazy rusty brown with a small tan head. Aroma of sourness, malt, wet wood, oak, tart fruit, cherry, light bourbon. Flavor is rather sour, malt, wood, oak, light vanilla, light acetone, cherry, little bourbon. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, dry acidic finish. 120322
Tried
on 10 Apr 2022
at 13:53
8/10
Slight acidity that's classic cascade, cherry punch and bourbon light booze
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2021
at 22:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from the tap (2017 vintage). Dark brown with small beige head. Lots of wood, sour cherry, mild tartness, red wine, great balance of flavours.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Dec 2020
at 04:36
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap Dark reddish colour with no head.Aroma of sour Berry's and red wine also oak and vinegar nice sour finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2020
at 13:33