Alpine Beer Company Chez Monieux

Brewed by Alpine Beer Company (CA)
Style: Sour Ale
Alpine, California USA

Orange-red, thin white head, light lacing. Aroma is quite sour, tart and acidic, cherries, oak. Flavour is very soft, incredable balance, lots of cherries, sour and acidic, some sweetness in there as well, strawberries. Acidic mouthfeel, medium body, high carbonation. Finishes long, acidic, lots of cherries.

This is pretty incredable, the balance is phenomimal. The aroma made this.

750ml bottle obtained in a trade with TheCheeseMan, thanks Dan.
Opened on February 13, 2009.
No date.

Pale amber with a small white head. Aroma of grapefruit and oak, with a hint of marzipan. Dry and tart oak-dominated flavour

Bottle at Stone Sourfest 09. Hazy brown pour. Sour aroma, butter. Flavor is tart, pretty sour, cherries. Nice syrupy mouthfeel.

750mL. pours a reddish amber with little head. aroma is tart and a bit sweet. mouth is tart and puckering, but in a pleasant way. like a cherry lemonade. fun... but need a crew to polish 750...

750 ml bottle - pours clear, red with thin white head; zing on the nose with fruit and cherries; kind of juice-like; soft, light texture; not that interesting, but some nice sweetness and mild tart from the cherries

Stone Sour Fest 2009 Poured a hazy amber. Nose was earthy, oak, noble hops, and funk. Taste was light on cherry, not too tart, mild funk, some oak, overall slightly bland.

Clear reddish amber with a fleeting, thin white head. Sour tart aroma. The flavor is dry, sour and tart with very little sweetness. The tartness lingers into the finish. Light, dry and tart sum it all up.

Bottled. Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is sour wooden notes along with some brett and fruits. Flavour is brett, some spices, sweet fruits, sour wood and some tart cherry notes. Interesting and very well done lambic-clone.