8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
a: beautiful crisp & clear amber body with a bright ruby highlight | thick, moderately fast-dying light tan head
a: alcohol | pure spontaneous fermentation | deep pitted fruits
f: tart cherries | soft brown sugar | musty basement
t: complex yeasts | rich malts | floral & complex end
o: interesting throughout | great range of flavours | rich basement-y and sweet-ish flavours - great to sample, especially with age and from THIS store!
500 mL bottle | [the late, great] New Beer Distributors: New York (LES), New York | 26-February-2018 (my last visit to the store before closing) | US$8,99 | no bottling date | sampled: 26 & 27 September 2025, a bit longer than 7 years after purchase
a: alcohol | pure spontaneous fermentation | deep pitted fruits
f: tart cherries | soft brown sugar | musty basement
t: complex yeasts | rich malts | floral & complex end
o: interesting throughout | great range of flavours | rich basement-y and sweet-ish flavours - great to sample, especially with age and from THIS store!
500 mL bottle | [the late, great] New Beer Distributors: New York (LES), New York | 26-February-2018 (my last visit to the store before closing) | US$8,99 | no bottling date | sampled: 26 & 27 September 2025, a bit longer than 7 years after purchase
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2025
at 06:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap at BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Tart and funky with an aroma of sweetish pear, apple, and light bready malt. Flavour is tart, mild sourish and sweet. Body is medium. Nicely funked up.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Feb 2025
at 12:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Head gone in seconds; cold-hazed metallic orange beer. First a tad pharmaceutical, then absolutely peaches, fresh, and lactic acid. Furthermore Brett-like aroma, no doubt the Penicillium roqueforti. Seriously acidic, lactic and fruit acids. Finish is vinous, fruitwine, very aromatic and perfumey. Serious alcoholthinning, light burn, low carbonation, slick. Pretty impressive. Nice, if severe.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Dec 2020
at 09:11
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Beer #4 of 17 (8 beers on either side of #8000 plus the magic 8000th itself) Deep, dark purple and violet tinted body with a muddied, brown glow and a very fast-dying off-white head that goes away immediately upon pouring. Aroma of super acidic and sour notes with some vinegar kick coming through at first and then giving way to a ton of fruits, pitted notes, some strawberries and a bunch of funk from brett notes with a light dose of chocolate at the back edge, but more of the fruits and malt components than anything else in the nose. Full-bodied; Strong sweet, rich and very funky, soured and bretty yeast qualities show through with a lot of vinous and more deep sweetness from prunes, plums and strawberries, but a bunch of funky yeast and dry oak or foeder notes are the strongest flavours here with some tannin notes and a mellow earth quality, but the sweet and especially soured/tart notes are by far the strongest. Overall, a very nice and super complex, relatively easy-drinking beer for the alcohol and style, given that the complexity is comprised of much more than just the tart flavours and the sweetness. A very nice beer and obviously worthy of keeping this for so long and of course as a celebratory beer. This was the fourth beer of my 8000th celebration which continued in a positive direction. I sampled this 50 cL bottle, purchased from BeerTopia in Omaha, Nebraska on 05-February-2018 for US$9,49 sampled at my house in Washington a bit more than two years later on 18-April-2020, as Beer #4 (of 17) of the 8000th Beer Celebration!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2020
at 06:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle/Fest. A- Light, funky, hay, mild citrus. A- Gold color, clear liquid, white head. T- Funky, straw, mild acidity, lemon. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, funky finish. O- Nice balance. I'm not sure I would say it really fits the style but it's definitely drinkable. I liked this one more than I thought I might, although I do struggle to pick up specific flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2020
at 18:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Not sure why marked out of production this seems fresh enough. Chestnut pour frothy head. Nose is Christmas spice and dark fruits. Tastes of dates, figs, plum, cardomon, cinnamon, slightly sour. Some wood and chewy finish. Interesting.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2019
at 04:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Refrigerated 0.5 L brown bomber poured into a glass. Clear copper with small beige head. Aroma is Brett, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is Brett and off. I don’t know if this was off or if it was that different.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2019
at 21:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at beertemple. Aroma of tart, acidic sourness, apple, pear and subtle citrus. Taste has sour pear, acidic sourness, tart and apple. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2018
at 20:51
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Tip Tap Room, pours a hazy dark amber with a small beige head. Nose brings out lots of wild yeast, with tart funky cherries and some oak. Flavour is very odd, with manure, balsamic, funk and oak. Dirty drain on the finish, with some manure. Not too impressed.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Aug 2018
at 04:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ Atomic Liquors, Las Vegas, NV. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour yeasty funky aroma. Fruity sour tart funky flavor with hints of citrus. Has a fruity sour tart funky finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2018
at 12:32