Pizza Port Le Woody Brune
Pizza Port (Solana Beach) in Solana Beach, California, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.85
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750 ml bottle at the DC local tasting, courtesy of Brad, hooked up by Chris. Murky light brown color, tan head. Aroma of prune, plum, sour summer fruits. Taste has sour cherry, vanilla. Good stuff, probably best of the night.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Magnum bottle, courtesy of cquiroga. Gusher. Pours hazy dark brown with a small white head. Smooth fruity and light caramelish aroma. Light acetone and dry malty flavoured. Smooth cherry like note. Bitter and dry. Nice mix between roasted malt and wooden barrel fruity notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
jjpm made my beer dream come true when he reached out and got this beer for sharing. I am extremely grateful, thank you very much. The beer pours with a fizzy head that quickly fades into the solid block of dark amber color. Cannot see through the beer at all and after all remnants of the head fade it looks very still. Aroma is great right off the bat and I was happy this would be one of those special beer experiences. Its very woody (what a second...) with tart red grape skins and musky red cherries. Not sweet but plenty of tart and funk. As soon as you taste it light acidity hits the cheeks to prepare you for the flavor. Then there is lots of light sour, funky cherries. Then comes a tart finish with lingering acidity. A lightly aged, faintly chocolate maltiness underneath all that. Its really just divine to drink. Very easy beer with a long light tart aftertaste. Awesome, thanks again John.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is brutally sour, fruity, woody and leafy. Flavour is very much the same in an excellent balance. Very complex, sour and lovely.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Bottled, thanks cquiroga! Pale brownish amber, no head. Acidic lighly oaky strawberry aroma. Dryish with soft malt and gently sparkling mouthfeel. Complex flavour of wild strawberries, vinegar, oak and blueberries. Vinous with near Cantillon-like acidity. An ultra superb beer that left me speechless.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled
Hazy brown color, small off-white head. Sour, earthy aroma. Sourish .. cherry flavor is dominating. Smooth carbonation. Very stylish, balanced Rodenbach-like sour ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
kp’s Fest of 26. While I am still undecided about Lambics in general, I must say that more and more often, I find one of these Flemish sours to be something I enjoy. Le Woody is quite tasty. Clear brown with loads of ruby highlights, it throws up a long lasting, thin head of tan. Sour cherry must aroma. This starts sweet and ends with a big sour cherry finish. Tart and a bit dry. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Had this one a number of different times at a handful of different beer festivals so it’s high time I enter my thoughts. Rating is for the draught version.
A very generous amount of beige-colored head, though perhaps slightly darker than that, from all of the odd additions. The body is a wondrous garnet-black cherry with plenty of mahogany tints. Quite cloudy. Head recedes a bit too quickly, though sticky film and spotty lacing is left behind. The nose is very pungent, the brett and oak going straight to your head, while tart cherries and a vanilla-cream note battle for dominance. It ends with some wood tannins, curiously stirring up a black pepper and light orange zest note. Cherry additions always garner a bit of cinnamon out of my receptors as well, though combined with the wood, it just comes off as an ultra-spicy, slightly muddled sensation. The cherries in the nose turn quite dry, almost similar to a raspberry note. Chocolate is lacking in the nose, where it would be expected. The flavor showcases tight carbonation carrying mountains of tart cherries all about the palate, with almost a chewy raisins and dry cocoa note on the end. As the palate gets accustomed to the bright acidity and tartness, sweet, creamy malts are noted. Not as much wood character in the flavor as expected, based on the nose (as far as tannins are concerned) but certainly barrel character in the form of fruitiness. Just a bit of tartness on the end, though when combined with the cherry puree and yeasts, it’s all a lot to take in. Little to no wateriness/thinning is noted, nor is the alcohol. Texture varies from lightly creamy to lightly slippery, plenty of acids and oils loosening things somewhat. But the carbonation is tight and well-done for the style. I think with time, this stuff will be marvelous. If cuvee de tomme is any indication.