Dogpatch Sour
Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Hermitage Brewing CompanySour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
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Score
7.55
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Ale brewed with cherries and aged in wine barrels
This barrel-aged wild ale is named for our San Francisco neighborhood and pays tribute to the Flanders Red style of beer. Aged in wine barrels, this lightly tart ale is brewed with California Rainier cherries using a house blend of wild yeasts, bacteria and SF sourdough yeast. Pair this complex ale with ripe figs & blue cheese or seafood bouillabaisse.
This barrel-aged wild ale is named for our San Francisco neighborhood and pays tribute to the Flanders Red style of beer. Aged in wine barrels, this lightly tart ale is brewed with California Rainier cherries using a house blend of wild yeasts, bacteria and SF sourdough yeast. Pair this complex ale with ripe figs & blue cheese or seafood bouillabaisse.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours deep, clear, ruby-tinged amber into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes to hug rim. Dark cherry funk aromas. Sharp, tart funky cherry front to back. Lasting pith finish.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2016
at 18:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
(375ml 2015 bottle from Saveur-Biere) Pours a slightly hazy orange-red colour, very rapidly dissipating big white bubbles, no retention. Aroma is sour, with prominent oak, sharp tart cherry, red wine vinegar, wet earthy Brett, slight balsamico, sourdough yeastiness and lemon juice. Flavour is quite sour-tart with a little sweet (but slightly unripe) cherry in the core for balance, moderate lemon juice, light vinegar, oaky, vanilla, soft marzipan. Finish remains tart with a little oak dryness and earthy Brett. Medium bodied, a bit oily, light carbonation. More of a Flanders red with cherries than cherry driven, wood very present but funk less so. Bit too sour vs. complexity to be really drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2016
at 17:55
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours murky copper with a fading head.Nose shows funk, lemon, soft cherry. Some hints of vanilla and woody oak too.Massively acidic flavours, with supporting cherry/marzipan sweetness, faint lemon and oak.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2016
at 05:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Almanac tap takeover at PreFunk Nampa hazy brown with a small light tan head. Woody and earthy sour tartness. I found it fairly aggressive in the sour character and the wood/barrel aging is apparent.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2016
at 00:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Refrigerated 12.7 oz brown bottle batch 4 poured into a tulip. Clear orange with small off-white head. Aroma is nice tart, medium body, low carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is tart cherries, oak, some red wine, and dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2016
at 19:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours a bit reddish, on a second look more like copper. Some white foam, not much though. Aroma is quite sour and acidic, you can feel some cherries if you dig deep. Taste is quite straight on sour and acidic. If you let it settle it becomes more approachable, you get some cherry and cherrytree peels. Pretty sour overall, lingering sticky sourness in the end. Nice experience.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jan 2016
at 23:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from the Garvie dregs run. Pours amber with a thin white head. Aromas of sour cherry, oak. Taste is sharp, and creamy. Dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2016
at 01:50
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2016
at 22:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at craig’s. Pours deep orange, nose is funky grape, oak, taste is quite sour, tart cherry, dry, bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2016
at 02:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a slight hazy burnt orange to burnt red color with a one finger white foamy head that quickly dissipated and left no lacing.
The smell started off with sour and tart cherries invading some light citrus and a light malty background.
The taste was mostly the same as the aroma. Tart and sour cherries roll into sour to bitter citrus rind all rolling about and feeling out the aftertaste with a sly sour and dry feel in the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sipping quality about it. Carbonation feels good and right at par for the AWA style. Nice bitter harshness pounds on my tongue, but not overbearing.
Overall, as an AWA, it works, hmmmm, as a Sour Red/Brown ale, I’d say I guess it works.
The appearance was a slight hazy burnt orange to burnt red color with a one finger white foamy head that quickly dissipated and left no lacing.
The smell started off with sour and tart cherries invading some light citrus and a light malty background.
The taste was mostly the same as the aroma. Tart and sour cherries roll into sour to bitter citrus rind all rolling about and feeling out the aftertaste with a sly sour and dry feel in the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sipping quality about it. Carbonation feels good and right at par for the AWA style. Nice bitter harshness pounds on my tongue, but not overbearing.
Overall, as an AWA, it works, hmmmm, as a Sour Red/Brown ale, I’d say I guess it works.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2016
at 14:49