Alpine Beer Company Briscoe Lambic

Formerly brewed at Alpine Beer Company (CA)
Style: Sour Ale
Alpine, California USA

Let me buck the trend a little for this beer. Let me preface that, I almost always rate sours higher than everyone else by 0.1-0.2 (I think). Bought at the release. Opened at Dr Bills. Pale yellow color. Flat. No indication that this will be good or bad. Nice sour aroma of light acetic vinegar. Light, slightly lacto-slick mouthfeel, but not as much other sours. Some sweetness. Better than struiselensis. Delicious. Super duper drinkable.

I picked up a bottle at the brewery and had to try it right away. Pours goldedn with a slight orange hue, no head, and very little carbonation. Aroma was very tart from the wine barrels. The first sip was incredibly tart and seemed to be a little less tart with each sip. I like it alot.

Bottle from brewery. Clear yellow with no head. Strong yellow aroma. Good tangy tart sour fruit taste with an oaky finish and some wine character lingering in the after taste. Very good.

Bottle shared by iowaherkeye. Yum, thanks. My sample was from the bottom of the bottle. Yum again. The yeasty, sludgy stuff is often the best. Poured a cloudy yellow-orange color. The head was white. Lovely funkified aroma reminiscent of distant cow pasture, moldy old leather shoes, and apple cider vinegar. Slightly sweet up front with a spicy, tart, mouth puckering finish (like an apple cider that sat around well beyond the freshness date). I tasted tart cherry, sour apple, oak, and a splash of white wine vinegar. The spices lingered pleasantly on the tongue along with the acidity. Deliciously funky.

Bottle, Cleveland Tasting. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small thin, soapy white head. Aroma is vinegar, light cherries, brett. Flavor is tart cherries, oak, vinegar, light pepper. Palate is medium to light, medium carbonation, finished, tart and mouth puckering. Very nice brew, refreshing!

1st Rating of this beer. Bought at the Brewery today. Pours orange with no head. Nose has a very sour character. Taste is tart, very tart and big in the mouth feel department. Sour with hints of red wine presumably from the barrel. Very interesting beer, lots of interesting characteristics in this really tasty sipper. Glad to have another great sour beer come out of So Cal.

Oh yeah...they did this one right also...great overal flavor...easy drinking...it may be a straight lambic but it tastes fruity from the wine barrels...and funky...with acetic notes and mandarine, lemon, lime...great for a twist on the style.

Ill hook up by hapjydeuce, thanks Jason. I drank this after GABF, I needed something special to put the night to bed. I was not disappointed. Pours completely dead, no life or carbonation to the beer. The color is murky, dark, straw. Aroma is all cobweb-y brett. A strong sour-lemon character (reminiscent of Cantillon). Mouthfeel is dead as expected. Taste is very lemony sour at first and a strong brett sour bite at the end. I really liked this, lets give it a bit of carbonation to get the juices going. Otherwise, I am surprised the base beer for Chez Monieux, a lifeless, empty, filtered, shell of a lambic, is so damn good.