Unusual fruit porter with thick and creamy, pale beige head over a very dark bronze beer. The nose immediately shouts sour cherries, embedded in hints of cocoa, caramel, hazelnuts, lemon peel, banana, orange and yoghurt; taste is predominantly the tartness of the ’Schaarbeekse griotten’, refreshing, some red apple and peach, resinous mouthfeel, caramelly, big maltiness, strongish carbonation, some bitter chocolatey maltiness in the finish, brandy-like alcohol touch, yeastiness but most of all, the drying effect of the sour cherries. This was not my first ’fruited’ porter but it is the first one in which the fruits dominate the malts, as in terms of taste alone, this reminds more of an ’oude kriek’ than a porter... Interesting experiment, that much is clear. Not entirely sure what to think of it, though: I had the impression the fruity sourness and the maltiness were too much in conflict and coexisted in it without having any further relationship with each other, as if someone just poured a lambic-based traditional cherry beer into a glass of porter.

Bottle. Amber brown color, tan head. Aroma of brandied cherries, chocolate. Taste has boozy cherries, brown bread. Decent.

Letzt säuerlicher Antrunk mit passenden, nicht übertriebenen Schokoladennoten. Frisch, fruchtig, natürliche vollmundige Schokoladigkeit. Zum Ende trockener. 12/12/11/9/9/12

Sampled draft @ ZBF 2014. Thick murky brownish red with off-white bubbles. Smells lactic, sour, fermenting berries, rotting cherries and chocolate. Tastes of rotting cherries, lactic, muddy water, fermenting chocolate, the sourness doesn’t come across as intended. Not very pleasant, the whole feels very messy and tad watery.

Bottle @ Proeftafel Van Moll, Eindhoven. Murky red colour with a small off-white head. Smells sour, cherry, dusty, grape peel. Tastes slightly sour, cherry, a bit flat. Thin to medium body, soft carbo.

bit gusher pours dark brown, big white head fades fast smells like cherries , green taste is bit bitter , green . Some cherries nice . Not to sweet . good mouthfeel , Ok carbonation