Bottle. Pours a pitch black hue with a creamy dark brown head. A huge wafting cognac nose. Rich huge barrel, vinous, big sweet base struggles and comes through, some heat. Red wine like cognac with huge sweetness. This balances. Awesome beer.

Deep but very clear, almost crystal clear coloured body with a nice orange glow against a subdued copper body with a thinnish, one to two centimetre tall off-white head that fades slowly and leaves a subtle lace on top. Aroma of very nice and super funky foeder, spontaneously fermented and especially tart, yeast notes with a light dose of grass and grain here, but the soured, oaky, cedar and dry notes are dominant in a great way and seem to definite this beer just in the nose, almost immediately when holding the glass up to your nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong funky foeder and soured yeast note shows up at first with a dry quality, some light malts, a dash of hay and grass, but a bit of the tart and funky yeast shows through everything and brings out a more dryness and a lot more grassy and herbal qualities, but this is very crisp and subdued throughout. Aftertaste is enjoyable with a great complexity for the style, especially from the foeder and funky yeast notes, but the dryness here is very large and great, especially if that's what you're looking for. Overall, a very nice and especially complex beer that brings out the dry, grassy, herbal and tart notes with a nice complexity throughout - great to sample, especially as my first beer back home in the states after two weeks abroad in non-beer countries! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from La Bodega in Anchorage, Alaska on 05-October-2021 for US$5,75 with the tagline 'criti' on the bottom and the date of '05/21' sampled at my house here in Washington on 15-August-2022 after returning from a two week trip down South with my wife and three kids in South America.