Alpine Beer Company Chez Monieux

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

750mL Bottle. Thanks Sean! Aroma gases a mix of pale cherries and bit of dough and cherry pie. Soft and a bit creamy. Pours a surprisingly pale, clear peachy pale yellowish-sugar. A "light" lambic. Flavors are good, but not as hard hitting as a really punchy fresh fruit characters. There’s a slight bit of fakeish orange peel, or reduced orange juice character. Not the depth of character one might want. Still good fresh clean flavors. A little thinner and lighter. Dusty, gummy hop character. Good, just not killer.

Hazy orange with a medium white head. Sourish aroma with peach and sour berries, lacto and brett notes. Flavour was sour with currant, peach, lacto, barnyard, leather and grapefruit notes. Finished sour.

Pours a light tan-red with a pure white head. Plenty of sour cherries and funk in aroma. Flavor is much sweeter than I expected, with cherry pie, oak, lemon, and a touch of funk. Very smooth - a pleasure to drink.

Murky red color with not much head. Aroma is fruity, cherry, wood, sourness. Taste is a bit thin, sour, acidic, woody and tart cherry. Overall very nice.

Reddish orange pour with a thin head. Superb sour cherry pie aroma. Tart, superbly balanced flavored. Not too tart, nice strawberry notes. Good stuff.

Sampled from the bottle courtesy of Smokepot23@AleSmith’s tasting bar: Hazy peach color with a wisp of off-white foam. Aroma is white wine vinagar and wood. Flavor starts acidic with tart cherries and red wine vinagar followed by a hint of leather and a tart dry finish. Light body is crisp with moderate carbonation.

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of pepsican. Pours a clear orange with a small, off-white head. Tart, fruity nose with notes of sweaty horse blanket. Medium body, fresh, tart Brett accents, a whiff of raspberries and horse blanket. Has a subtle, tart finish. 010509

Some brett in the aroma and the flavor. Lots of yeast in the aroma and light cherry. The flavor however, is loaded with sweet cherry, like cherry pie filling, perhaps not that sweet. A little acidic. Sour for a fruit beer. Mildly sour. A bright red color. A very nice fruit beer.