Ichabod Ale (2007)
Alpine Beer Company in Alpine, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.07
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6.6% Belgian Brown Ale aged 3 months in Calloway Vineyard’s red wine oak barrels with cinnamon, nutmeg (fresh, hand-ground) and Pumpkin. Some special wild yeast gives it a cherry pie tart flavor and the spices are gracefully subtle. The red wine helps with some tang, too.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From bottle, blind #13. Pours cloudy orange with a small and collapsing off white head. Spiced, ginger and mild lacto aroma. Smooth fruity, light lacto flavoured. Mild ginger acidity. Smooth and fruity with a subdued sourness. Light malt to roasted base flavoured. Lasting ginger and mild acidic finish. Smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 13:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 65 cl. Hazy and opaque amber golden with a beige head and big bogeyman-like lumps of yeast. Lightly tart, spicy nose. Medium body, wood and an unusual spicy tartness. Dry and lightly tart finish. Quite interesting. 120609
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 07:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Orange color and moderate-sized head. Brett in the aroma. Lots of yeast in the flavor. Light malt, and a dry finish. Lightly sour.
Tried
on 24 May 2009
at 14:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle courtesy of Bu11zeye: Poured a reddish color ale with a medium foamy head with average retention but no lacing. Aroma of oak with some sour notes and some very light cinnamon notes. Taste is dominated by some sour oak notes with some traces of cinnamon. I hardly could trace pumpkin or cloves in here and this beer was dominated by the red wine barrel. Full body with average carbonation. Not really a pumpkin beer but not a great sour either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2008
at 12:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
on tap-pours a thin creamy light tan head and copper/brown color. Aroma is bold cinnamon, wood, spices, medium malt, dark fruit. Taste is like a Flemish sour. (OK RB lists as Sour ale) Occasional.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Feb 2008
at 12:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to beastiefan2k for sharing at Joe’s place - clear copper beer - interesting aroma of red wine, oak, spices (nutmeg), vegetal notes, and cherries - medium-tart, light tannins - pumpkin comes through the sourness just a slight bit, as does cinnamon and gingerbread, adding a unique dimension to the beer - quite an interesting (and well-executed) idea.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2008
at 19:07
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
draft at O’Brien’s - Pours dark amber with a thin head. It smells of malt and sour fruit. The flavor is really sour with some malty tones and to me, not much wild yeast funk in there. I don’t know what it is, but I’m really not a big fan of this one. I didn’t particularly care for the sourness with this mix of flavors.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jan 2008
at 20:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared by Styles. Deep orange-red body, thin buff head. Pumpkin spices are prominent in the aroma, also wine barrel tanginess. Brettanomyces funk noticeable but not in control. Nutmeg and cinnamon dominate the body, and play off the sour, tannic wine barrel notes and bretty funk. They don’t necessarily play well together. More precisely, they keep to themselves and don’t interact to the degree I anticipated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2007
at 14:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From dirty_martini, thanks Larry. Pours a dark copper color with reddish/orange tints, has a medium clarity and a small head. Aroma is a present woody brett funk. Surprisingly, I do not get a lot of spices, for me its just represented as a strong oak/wood character. Ok, maybe nutmeg but its hard to separate the wood and the spices in presence of the sour. The yeasty part adds a slightly more complex sourness with hints of cherry juice. Taste starts off just regular slightly malty amber and then at the end the sourness kicks. Comes out as a nicely malty amber with a long lingering sourness. I like it, a very nice sessionable sour beer.
22oz bottle, Hobgoblin tulip glass.
22oz bottle, Hobgoblin tulip glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2007
at 20:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of TheCheeseMan (formerly known as dsnowden), thanks Dan. Pours a copper color with off white head. It has a big aroma of candy, some sourness, fruit, wood, mild spice and some faint pine hops hiding out the back shrouded in a bit of funk mustiness. A mild sourness hits first in the flavor followed by berries that go from sweet to tart. About that point the wood note in the back ground wells up to be heard. Toward the finish the berry tartness comes back but the sweeter berry fruitiness does not. The Belgian sugar, faint caramelization and tartness ride out into the after taste. Very cool. Would be good to try it with more age.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2007
at 21:54