Alpine Beer Company Ichabod Ale (2007)

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

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet and acidic with notes of brettanomyces, lacto, wood, and citrus fruits as well as lighter notes of hops. The flavor is sweet combined with an acidity and with notes of malt and lemon as well as lighter notes of wood, leading to a tart fruity finish. The acidity burns lightly on the palate.

Bottle 65 cl. Hazy and opaque amber golden with a beige head and big bogeyman-like lumps of yeast. Lightly tart, spicy nose. Medium body, wood and an unusual spicy tartness. Dry and lightly tart finish. Quite interesting. 120609

From bottle, blind #13. Pours cloudy orange with a small and collapsing off white head. Spiced, ginger and mild lacto aroma. Smooth fruity, light lacto flavoured. Mild ginger acidity. Smooth and fruity with a subdued sourness. Light malt to roasted base flavoured. Lasting ginger and mild acidic finish. Smooth.

Bottle 65cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #13. ]
Unclear hazy medium red amber orange color with a average, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry - fruity, sour beery. Flavor is light heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090612]

Bottle #13 at Papsø’s blindtasting. Hazy orange coloured with a medium sized off white head. Fruity and light acidic aroma of berries with notes of oak. Fruity flavour of berries, oak and vanilla with acidic notes. Tart finish.

Name: Ichabod
Date: 11/17/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Throwdown 3
Vintage: 2007

clear dark amber, fine off white head, bits of lace, sweet caramel and cinamon aroma with nice pumpkin, lots of cinamon flavor, light malt adds a base for the spicy character, a sharpness like ginger or mint, pumpkin adds an odd character, lingering tartness in the finish,
-------- /> Name: Ichabod
Date: 12/04/2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewery
Vintage: 2007
Score: 3.0 to 3.5

hazy dark amber, sweet winey character in the aroma in addition to the pumpkin and spices, sweet caramel malt flavor meets a woody cherry pit tartness, winey sweetness, pumpkin and spices take a back seat to the wine and wood, cinamon comes out as it warms,
-------- /> Name: Ichabod
Date: 01/06/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: brewery
Vintage: 2007

sweet wine and pumpkin flavor makes strange bedfellows but works pretty well,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Muddy amber color; small head. The aroma is light, mixing some fruits, vegetables; but also a very light and nice sourness, Bretts. Dry mouthfeel, citrus fruits sourness, light yeasty caramel flavor the final is medium sour. It can be a fake lambic, but quite confused and not convincing.

Hazy dark amber with a medium beige head. Aroma had lacto, toasted malt, caramel and sour berries. Flavour had loads of lacto, sour berries, roasted malt and wood. Finished sour. Not bad.