Fall of the Damned
Burial Beer Co. in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Rotating|
Score
7.46
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As we peer back at our finest moments, we saw this spirit lingering. Our first batch held the flame for our Sour debut during 2017’s Beer Week. So this past Summer we began to recreate it, with the goal to present the most jammy sour we’ve seen. Bold red sour ale fermented in steel, inoculated with culture in our puncheons and then laid it to rest in Bourbon Barrels for many moons. Aged in steel with 2.5# per barrel of Marionberries and Blackberries and then bottle conditioned for 6 months. The final expression is sticky blackberry, jammy raspberry and pie-spiced Beaujolais.
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SaltyGrog (4602) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the source. Clear, dark ruby juice, slight ring of lace, slight activity. Leafy more than veggie nose, dried fruit, honey floral, sour berry skin. Taste is juicy & sour, intense fruit, lots of seed & leafy bitterness. Punch of sweetness at first then it coasts mostly dry & tart, with a middle high sourness that's grows. Bourbon is lost. Very vinous, thin & with a bit of chem burn, though it's probably just pesticides or the strong acid. Simple & tasty.
mcm1 (3796) ticked Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
8-9-23, Burial
explosivedog (14053) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at the brewery. Pours red brown. Berry, blackberry, red wine, tart, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, floral. Medium body. Very nice.
Drake (22938) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at the brewery, 9.19.20. Purple large pinkish head good retention. Aroma of funk, berry, oak, pepper. Taste is funk, pepper, tart berry, oak, lemon. Medium bodied, bright, refreshing.
Taboada (8738) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught, taster. @Mash Beer Festival 2019, Barcelona (Spain). 26/10/2019. 2019 edition. Deep burgundy red colour with a nice lacing off-white head. Aroma is red grapes, oak, plum and berry. Taste is grape must, soft syrup, pepper and oak. Finish is medium sour and dry. Next one please!
Travlr (30181) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at Salud Beer Shop. Bright red purple color pinkish head. Plum grape and berry aroma. Taste is tart grap skins black pepper lemon. Tasty
77ships (14509) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tasting glass draft @ Beerlovers Bar. Dark red amber, small off-white head. Nose is raspberry, red grape, red wine barrel, big fruit, blackberry cranberry. Great smell. Taste is bit weird upfront, slightly mouldy, dirty, spoiled grape, bit mineral but still quite solid with big wine syrup, cranberry, blackberry, raspberry,… Slick fruit syrup & wine body. Not perfect but with clear good aspects.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
At Burial’s tap takeover in Antwerp, basically their take on the old Flemish red (’oud bruin’) but with added blackberries in two varieties and aged on bourbon barrels. Thin, off-white, lightly lacing, opening head over a hazy, deep burgundy-coloured beer with warm red copper hue. Aroma of tart fruit indeed, blackberries but also sour cherry, blue plum, passion fruit and cranberry, embedded in hints of dry sherry, red wine, roasted peanuts, old cloth, damp soil, caramel enhanced by a bourbon touch and a hint of glue. Very fruity onset as expected, lots of redcurrant- and passion fruit-like accents partially due to the blackberries, which also provide a subtle sweeter undertone, though dried by a red wine vinegar-like sourness; caramelly malt body below but not too thickly so, nut shell-like hint, ongoing drying tartness, earthy accent in the finish with continuing fruitiness (the blackberries) and a bit of woodiness with the bourbon all but unnoticeable. Like many new sour ales based on Flemish red, this lacks a bit in rounded, caramelly malt sweetness to counter the acidity, but the aroma is absolutely stunning; also, like their own Seasoned Skillet strong sweet stout, the bourbon barrel ageing could perhaps have been a bit more generous - but then the rich presence of two kinds of brambleberries sure makes up for that. Very interesting American sour ale.
Kermis (23401) reviewed Fall of the Damned from Burial Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
8 3 7 3 16Bottle shared at Hollands Spoor Tasting Club, Breda Edition. Hazy red with a small pink head. Aroma of tart red berries, mineral notes and light funk. Flavour is moderate sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.