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Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, hard roasted malt and light sourish. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 110416

Bottle @ Post-Easter Procrastination, Ulfborg. Pours hazy very dark brown with small tan head. Clear aroma of roast and coffee, with notes of malt and touches of hops and liquorice. Sweetish, malty flavour with notes of fruit and bitter, roasty and coffee-like touches. Hints of lactose. Roasty and sourish aftertaste. Okay but would be even better without the sourish hints.

Bottle 500ml. @ home. [ As Cismontane Marea Roja Flemish Red ].Clear dark brown red color with a average to large, frothy and fuffy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, wood, caramel, tart wine - red wine, wood, oak, red wine. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate acidic with a long duration, tart berry - red wine, wood, red wine. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is lively. [20150105]

Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours bright copper/amber with a beige head. Aroma is citrus and "sweat". Near full bodied. Flavor is fruity, hoppy, but not all that bitter. Not all that dry either. Pretty smooth, taste wise.

[2/13/15] Draught at Rogue Ales Public House in San Francisco. Black with a brownish head. Weird aroma with very vegetal coffee. Roasty flavor with vegetal coffee and a bitter finish. Medium to full-bodied.

[2/11/15] Draught at Toronado in San Francisco. Clear golden. Aroma of apples, grapes and white wine. Flavor is yeasty, spicy, slightly sweetish, with a light acidic note with apples and grapes. Medium-bodied. Interesting. Could’ve been nicer if it had more sourness.

Bottle 500ml. [ As Cismontane Citizen California Lager ].Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sharp fruit, pale malt, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150117]

The beer is a medium yellow golden color. It’s hazy but translucent enough to see general shapes through the glass. The head is smallish and white and fades after a couple minutes. The aroma is pale malt, pears, apples, oak, butter (as in buttery chardonnay, not diacetyl buttered popcorn), vanilla and grapes. There’s a lot of chardonnay barrel character, and any enjoyment that you get out of this beer will depend on how much you like that. Lots of fruitiness. Not much in the way of saison character. The taste has mild malt sweetness and lots more barrel character. It’s fairly bitter from the wood. Lots more fruit. Plenty of chardonnay. There’s a boozy, oaky quality that throws me off. It almost tastes like a mix of chardonnay and beer. Carbonation is on the low side. Long barrel finish. Odd stuff. I’m not really sure whether I like it. The barrel took over, and the beer could really use something to balance that out. It’s interesting, just not altogether pleasant.