Bottle. Pours clear reddish mahogany, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is woody, vinous, roast, tannin. Flavor is light plus tart, light plus funk. Medium body. Solid effort.

375mL bottled 2021 at the brewery, 9/13/23. Dark, clear. Ruby-tinted mahogany with a quickly receding, chalk-colored head. Nose is moderate lactic acidity with light dark fruit, malic-like cherry and a healthy amount of toasted character and brown bread. Maybe missing a more comforting note (honey, caramel, vanilla) and seems quite tart and acidic, though clean and with good minerality. Some seaweed-like umami is interesting, emerging after extended warming. Reasonably soft texture dries out quickly with toast, mellow lactic acid and hints of cherry, pepper and raisin. Breadiness builds slightly on the finish. Flavors, like the nose, are somewhat timid and perhaps dulled by the toasted, bready character. Good mineral character, though no real funk. Just needs more malt depth, at the end of the day.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Porter & Sons. Red-brown. Funk, cellar, oxidation, tart.

Bottle at the 'Mere, Happy New Years (Tipples had) Tastang, thanks to Dave 21/01/22. Dark mahogany brown with a decent light beige cap. Nose is sharp fruit esters, spice, herb, wood must, botanicals, tangy citric nip. Taste comprises sharp fruits, plummy tones, funk, wood must, grains, tangy dried fruit esters. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced puckering kiss.

Bottle at happy new year tasting. At Colin's. 21/01/2021. Many thanks to Wingman for this one. A light hazed amber brown coloured pour with a halo of greyish white head. Aroma is dry funk, lemon, toasted malts,. Bitter lemon. Flavour is composed of dry tart lemon, verbena. Vinous funk. Very tart.

22st January 2022
Tasting at Chez Bois. Thanks to David. Light haze on this amber beer, residual off white head. Palate is light, mildly dry and has a decent fine minerally carbonation. Tart fruits. Belgian style Flanders sourness. Touch of lemon. Light crisp finish. Okay.