Bottle @ Nuitnigenough. Small head with short duration. Color is red. Aroma and taste are plums, sour yeast, straw, barnyard, leather and a little hops. Nice sour finish.

Pours an red-orangish brown color. Probably a bit too red for a wood stain, but it would be a bright cherry pine, kinda garish, really. No real head. We’re in lambic country, so normal rules do not apply, not that I’m much of a believe in appearance ratings. The aroma is plum jam on top of mild vinegar and gueuze funk, but the fruit is dominant. The plum smell is on the apricot end of the plum world. It definitely smells like plums, but there’s a fair bit of variation within plums. This beer smells more like what is sold as fresh French prunes, around here, rather than the juicier, sweet-tart Santa Rosa plum that I more closely associate with the fruit, though I have no idea what Tilquin actually used, of course. The funk is mildly cheesy with some nice horse blanket tendencies bouncing around (it’s been too long since I used "horse blanket" in a review). The taste is light to medium tart with more of that fruit flavor. It’s still relatively sweet and a tad lacking in flavor for what I expect from a plum sour, but I don’t mean that as a knock. It’s just a tad different than expected. The fruit flavor is refined and melds nicely with the tartness. There’s a big lemony note. The vinegar tartness is actually pretty restrained, and there’s none of that back-of-the-throat burn that many American sours suffer from. Tilquin does a magnificent job balancing the flavors, showing off that quality lambic brewer touch. Carbonation is normal. Mouthfeel is a tad slick with fruitiness. Moderate pucker. I quite enjoyed this beer. It’s not a dramatic beer, but it has a lovely fruit flavor and oozes lambic complexity and refinement.

Bottle at Delirium Café. First batch! Hazy amber liquid with medium off-white head. Aroma of barnyard, lemons, apples, bread, fruity funk and stone fruit. Nice! Taste is dry and medium sour with notes of lemons, apples and funk. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Plums aren’t very prominent, but they’re definitely there. Nice lambic otherwise.

Amber/orange/red cloudy beer. Sour and dry taste. Fruity aroma of plums. Very well balanced.