8

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.

8

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.

7.8

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.

8

On tap @El Cabanon, Avilés. 26/12/2022. Color oscuro, corona escasa, aromas madera, licorasa sabor vinosa, ácida cuerpo medio.

7.5

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

8

Slight acidity that's classic cascade, cherry punch and bourbon light booze

7.9

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.

8.1

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.

7

O madko z corko, jakie to kwasne... bo poza onem zajebiste pod roznymi wzgledami, niemniej kwasnosc i to nieco octowa kwasnosc psuje