Bottle at home from Brewdog online. An opaque dark brown coloured pour with a reddy plum hues. A dark tan fizz that fades . Aroma is nice mix of tangy sour fruit, smoky whisky , phenols, tangy woodland berries, some sweeter jammy berry notes. Palate is medium full , light tang, warming alcohol, light pucker, fine carbonation. Flavour is intense woody roast, smoky whiskey, phenols, jamme woodland fruit, jammy plummy notes. Super intense, boozy but hides it pretty well.

330ml bottle, from Brewdog online. Pours opaque dark brown towards black with a tan head. Aroma: sour, light roast, chocolate cake, dark berries, dark fruits, dried fruits, liquorice, light funk, oak, umami. Taste: elements of sweet, sour & tangy, with sour dark berries, sour dark fruits, umami. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Decent for an OW beer, plenty of character and not stupidly acidic for a change.

Floral sourish beginning. Easy to drink, very soft with a grainy and sour woody. Finish. Hints of floralness, dry bitter sour in the end, mild and fruity. Nice.

The BrewDog Overworks project of sour ales can use some help from experienced brewers I guess – so now presents this collab with Dutch Nevel, with name hinting at the Dutch language (“beide” meaning “both”, underscoring that this is indeed a collab – taking time from both breweries). Described as a ‘Scottish sour ale’ as if this were a new style – thereby creating confusion with actual Scottish ale, which is a very different thing. Thanks to Craftmember. Yellowish pale beige, thin and open head, leaving a thin veil in the middle over a misty, ruddy-caramel brown robe with copper red tinge. Aroma of hard caramel, wet wood, dried passionfruit flesh, sour apples, redcurrant juice, medlar, hints of pear syrup, unripe blackberries, oloroso, dusty dry earth but hardly any cognac. Sour onset in a fruity, crisp way, redcurrant and sour apple impressions, lively carbonated; the lactic and fruity acidity continues and gets a bit puckering, severely drying a basically rounded, caramelly malt core with hazelnutty edge. Lots of drying sourness in the finish, along with tannic woodiness accentuating the dryness further, so that everything does end as bone dry as I was expecting. Not without complexity, an ‘oud bruin’ the 21st-century way, in a sense, but perhaps a tad clean and one-sidedly sour; may well improve a lot with ageing.