Leather Bound Books
Altamont Beer Works in Livermore, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.86
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at Ale Arsenal. Chocolate and cherry aroma. Brett is very faint. Very slightly hazy amber with no head. As it warmed, it started to become disjointed as cherry, slight tart and stone ground wheat interplay.
bb (18428) reviewed Leather Bound Books from Altamont Beer Works 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Tart and red wine aroma. Red wine and tart flavor with light malt. Medium bodied. Red wine and tartness lingers with light malt and light backing hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
On draft at Altamont. It pours a clear light amber/orange color with an off white head. The aroma has a good amount of barrel, although it comes across as more bourbon than wine with vanilla, light caramel, tart plum and funky, fruity esters. The flavor is great. Light funk and tartness with plum and orange fruitiness up front followed by funk and bourbon/wine barrel notes. The finish is tart, fruity and phenolic with medium bitterness that turns slightly acrid at the finish which is the only thing keeping this from being a top notch sour for me. Rich Mahogany is a pretty bitter beer, so they may have been better served crafting a recipe specifically for souring, but its still not bad at all, in fact its pretty tasty. The bitterness does meld nicely with the phenols. Not as good as their Funky Operator, but still quite solid.