2005 vintage. Pours a dark brown muddy glass. Nose is honey, orange peel and raisin. Taste follows suit with sour malts and oak. Very nice brew.

2005 bottle from Sammy, thanks! Amber color, cloudy. Vinous oaky aroma with raspberry and red berry notes. Moderately sour flavor with oaky and cherry notes, marzipan, chocolate, red beriies and apple. Probably has mellowed down a bit over the years, but still a lovely and likeable matured sour.

A grandiose thanks goes out to mtoast for this special brew and for the locale! Had the pleasure of sampling this at the 7/9/2009 Pittsburgh RB tasting extravaganza (PGHRBEXT) at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse, again courtesy of mtost. It will be a long time, if ever I see a spread of bottles like I did there. I am not good enough for the beers that were that we served! For example, how about this beer; obscure super baladin sour 2005! Hart told me he found this at the pizza port bottle shop. Smells somewhat like a farmy lambic, yum. But not overly strong on the olfactory. Looks a little more darker than a pale lager, in the brownish vain. Sour and tart initial taste impressions. I see this is rated as a strong ale on the sight but I would put it more into the sour arena. Farmy flavors are evident. A little bitter, I guess from the alky content but it really hides the 8+% well. Fairly acceptable for a strong ale. Unique beer tasting experience that I was glad to have. Overall a decent sour beer with a slight wood and bitter background. Finish is lambic or sour ale all the way.

Another nicely obscure beer that showed up at the Pittsburgh area Ratebeer gathering. Sampled from a 750 ml brown bottle this beer poured a very murky orange color with lots of chunks and a trace white head. The aroma was faintly tart, sour and fruity. The flavor was tart, bitter and almost vinegary with a light fruity undertone. The finish was long, tart, bitter and fruity. Medium body. Decent.

2005 Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a small white head that fades over an orange body with particles. Aroma of apple sauce, plastic, cinnamon, mashed pear and smoke. Taste is a bit of sour apple sauce with cinnamon, wood, vinegar and red sour cherries. Sparse, but lively bubbles and a water like mouthfeel.

Bottle from Liquid Solutions. Hazy orange amber color with an ephemeral white head. Aromas of orange citrus and light hop. Just a hint of citrus sour. Medium body with light carbonaton. Flavor is a mild orange sour. Goes on to mildly woody. Yet orange prevails. Very slightly astringent. Extremely pleasant.

Drank during Homebrew and Hanami 2008. Needless to say it was my last beer and my notes suck. Something about green apple pie, yummy, good and sour. Apparently I really liked it, but I should rerate sometime.

Huge ochre-amber beer with a white rim. Peanuts, cookies, bakery aroma’s... Not really sour, rather lactic with faint fruity nostes - strawberries, maybe. Very light body, but fiery end in mouthfeel, acidburn. A bit unbalanced, not clear what was intended with this beer. Nose is really strange.

Bottle. Amber beer with a cream colored head. Nice sour, lemony aroma. Sour/tart lemon flavor with earthiness, summer fruit, and hay. Smooth, medium body. Lingering tart summer fruit, grape, malt, hay, and spice. Nice refreshigly tart. Decent complexity. Very drinkable.

Bottle at Spuyten Duyvil - thanks to EDA for sharing - cloudy copper beer - quite a sweet aroma, with some metallic character, apparent oxidation, and flowers and burnt sugar underneath - tastes like boiled vegetables, mild sweetness, thin malts - some weird copper flavor - not sour at all, but it ends with a light acidity - not all that good.