Draft at Hopsscotch, 2/28. Rust colored poor with a thick beige head. Sour aroma with fruit, vinegar. Flavor is similar with a good bit of salt as well. Quite aggressively sour. A bit vinous as well. Pretty good stuff, but you'd probably get some serious heartburn from having more than one.

Bottle shared by Blisscent on 2/20/16.
Lightly mucky, drab olivine-tinged dark amber liquid has a beige head that immediately fizzles.
Cherries, plums, light wood and grapeskin in the nose quickly transition to souring agents. The malt is certainly there so it’s not hard to claim BdG, but add the wine barrel, heavy fruitiness and tartness and you’re definitely approaching sour/wild ale. Which is fine, who cares what it’s called. Well developed, unique and interesting aromas gain some toffee, currant and vanilla character with warming but no alcohol or flaw is apparent.
Wacky flavor. Like a low gravity eisbock blended with a barrel-aged wild amber ale. Light raisin and caramel malt quickly dry out and there’s earth, oak, vanilla and tons of phenolic and acetic character. Another crazy experimental beer from the masters of crazy experimental beer. Moderately successful but I can’t help wondering if a bit more malt and less phenolic/sour character would help here.

Bottle from blisscent. Thanks Nelson! Dirt muddy water, no head. Aroma is herbal sour and earthy all at the same.

Flavor is off the wall. Sour grapes, herbal notes and funky ass yeast. Very strange. Different but odd. Herbal finish.

Poured from bottle thanks Blisscent dirty red brown pour with a thin head. Aromas of funk sour grape and oak. Taste is tannic sour funk and grape. Not my favorite. --- Beer merged from original tick of Vetus (Blend 1) on 20 Feb 2016 at 21:04 - Score: 5

Nice looking bottle. Thanks Nelson for sharing. Reddish brown color, very hazy. Very acidic aroma. slight vinegar aroma with rotten grape, wine, oak. Holy crap this is sour. killing my taste buds. Incredible malt presence, it gets really tart really fast and fades to a lasting malt with a little bit of rubber.

Bottle at the Ratebeer Awards.Pours cloudy yellow gold with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is funk, grape, wood. Thin mouth, nice tartness, white wine, light funk, very good.

Bottle thanks to Kevin. Pours a hazy orange with medium frothy white head. The aroma is smoke, cheese, funk. Thin mouth, funky, spice, light finish, ok.

Bottle thanks to Kevin. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is figs, dark fruit, booze, vinegar. Thin mouth, light tartness, leather, vinegar, dates, light booze, very good.

Draught at EBF, 2/5/16.
Dark mahogany with some lighter tan hues on the edges. Indeterminable clarity, though it seems to be fairly bright. Tan head atop immediately fizzles to nothing.
Coffee in the nose mixes with fresh oak and light acidity to create a rich, sumptuous, almost Belgian Royal Stout-like nose. Vanilla, buttercream, coffee iced cream and a drying earthy character, along with the grape-like fruitiness balance each other. There’s some alcohol here, for sure, but I don’t find it too disruptive. Adds an almost cordial-like element to the braggot.
The flavor is a wild ride of sweet coffee, turning in to toffee/vanilla which then gives way to tart, moderately acidic bacterial character with wine-like influences and spicy notes from the honey fermentation. An earthy, and bready malt character returns and the beer doesn’t end completely acidic/sour yet nor does it end fully sweet/malty. Really, really like the juxtaposition here and especially the coffee character. Strong, rich and bold, yet doesn’t seem overbearing despite its huge abv. Can definitely see why some people weren’t in to it, but I absolutely loved it and think it works really well as a dessert sipper. So much more innovative than just another bourbon imperial stout....
As well, this should age remarkably nicely