6.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

~8 oz draft pour at a beer dinner at Transparent Brewing in Grandview, Missouri. This was served with the 3rd course. The pour is a slight haze ruby golden with a foamy tan head. The aroma is soft toast malt along with a bit of Lactose and then a sort of unclean dank basement aroma. The taste is fruit, bread, toast. the tart cherry fruit and the basement muddled esters towards the back. As it warms, I get a mild cough syrup character. The palate is medium bodied with lower carbonation and the ester yeast and some grape cherry sweet tart in the back. This didn't really strike me as a Flanders Red. The flavors did come together a bit better with food.