Baladin Nora Sour Edition

Formerly brewed at Le Baladin
Style: Sour Ale
Piozzo, Italy

Bottle shared with puzzl, maxxdaddy, and feedmec00kies. Pours light golden yellow with and pretty thick white head. Aroma and flavor of sour apples, my favorite. Overall very nice and pretty refreshing, something I would drink again.

Bottle shared by puzzl. Pours golden yellow with decent fizzy white head. Aroma of sour apples...nice. Taste is slightly tart, with a bit of citrus and apple. A bit astringent as well near the end. Palate was fizzy and light. Good beer.

Bottle from Degarth/Secret Santa, shared with a few folks. Very pretty golden yellow pour, completely unfiltered, with a nice firm white head. Lightly tart, sour apple aroma. The flavor has a good bit of peach, with a lingering malty aftertaste. Big, dirty esters dominate the taste. Body is a touch fizzy and minerally and distracts from an otherwise very nice beer.

Bottle picked up at riversbend and shared at a minitasting. Aroma seemed a little funky and citrus with some sourness to back it all up. Flavor was a lot of belgian yeastiness. Flavor didnt have much sourness coming through at all. Pretty tastey overall.

Sample from bottle shared by Matt @ Riversbend. Pours a hazy light amber with a large fizzy white head. The aroma is floral hops with some tart citrus. The flavor opens with a tart burst of citrus that quickly changes to a strange bitter flavor. After reading the description by the brewery, this is probably the balsalmic (mentholated) overtone mentioned. All I know is this finishes unlike any other beer I’ve had. Interesting.

Pours amber with some white fizz. Smells much like the standard edition but with some additional barnyard funk. Almost ice cream like mouthfeel (odd). Don;t really know what to say about this one as it tastes like a beer going through an identity crisis. Some sweet hints on the finish with more of the ice cream rye malt thing going on.

Bottle at Stone. Hazy orange amber with no head. Sour green apple and grape aroma. Bright watery palate and a sour fruity taste without much else going on.

(750ml Bottle) Pours a hazy yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of sparkler smoke, fresh cut grass, caramel, floral/herbs, and half rotten apples. Flavor of floral hops, sour funkiness, and herbal tea.