Keg @ Birmingham Beer Bash, July 14. Pours hazy brown, sour red berry aroma. Taste is fruity Schloer, lightly sour with a big raspberry flavour. Nice.

Tap at the Birmingham Beer Bash 2014. Poured a clear medium amber with a round off white head. The aroma is vinegar, molasses. The flavour is medium sour with a smooth acid tart red berry fruit palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Super crisp and very refreshing.

Keg at Birmingham Beer Bash; clear amber pour with a thin beige head, dark fruit and tart aroma, taste has dark fruits tart cherry, raspberry, some wine action.

Botte split at Bruce’s pad, thaks to LKS for this Oxfordian Sour, 27/03/14. Lighty hazed golden amber with a moderate off white swirl and edgeing. Nose is light caramel, raspberries, tarte wild berrie. Taste comprises tarte berr fruit, tangy raspberries, light acidity, woody twinges, background citric zing. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid approachable easy drinking sour.

27th January 2014
Tasting at Bruce’s. Thanks to Leighton. Hazy amber beer, small pale cream coloured head. Palate is light, semi dry and crispy. Light sourness and floralness. Raspberry.and blueberry, nice fruits. Light finish. Not bad.

Bottle shared in London - big thanks to Andrew for this one. Pours clear gold with reddish tint and a frothy, off-white head. Tart raspberry and strawberry in the nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with underripe berries, slight acidity, bitter berry pits. Light bodied with average carbonation. Moderate sweetness to finish with more tangy raspberry character, mellow acid burn, slight bitterness. Well balanced, nicely dynamic. Solid.

Bottle thanks to Leighton. It pours pale pink with a small yellow-white head. The nose is fresh, fruity, tangy, berry, candy, jam, light acidity and sherbet. The taste is tart, tangy, jammy berry, dark fruit, candy, citrus peel and some acidity which lingers. Dry, lightly tart finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Nice balance. Pretty tasty and enjoyable stuff.

Bottle from Millets Farm near Abingdon. Red-amber with a thin off-white head and maybe just a little too much fizz. Pungent smell of raspberry cordial with hints of dry sherry. Bucketfuls of fresh raspberries and raspberries up front; strikingly tart, sharp and sour. Some woody notes come through and a little bitterness before a long dry finish. Lovely stuff!

Bottle from S H Jones Bicester. Hazy reddish orange colour thick beige head. Hugely carbonated. Big berry aroma. Sweetish. Yes sourness comed through. Fir a UK fruit sour beer it’s great. Compared to Belgium it’s a little too sweet. Damn good though and utterly drinkable.

Bottle from SH Jones,Bicester, Saturday 7th December 2013 consumed the same day at Carol & Haydn’s party It was quite dark when I was drinking this so I cannot be certain of the colour, however it might of looked a reddy/dark amber. Aroma is predominantly fresh raspberries but there is a very pronounced nod to lambic here. In fact I passed this onto two friends who have been to Belgium with Loz and myself quite a few times, when I passed it to them I said nothing but they both said very similar things and both believed they were drinking a Belgian fruit Lambic. This is tart in the mouth, hugely refreshing, would be great in the summer, zappy raspberries and a wonderful sourness. Dry on the finish, this is lovely and quite an unexpected hit, I thought it would be good as Compass have done sone good beers of late but this is very, very good. I shall definately be off to SH Jones again soon for some more of these, I had Beavertown 8 Ball and a Partizan beer however this was easily the best of the night. I believe that this was a SIBA gold medal winner in some recent awards event and rightly so it is fully justified. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov17 4.0