Bullfrog Black Cherry Bomb

25 oz bottle, from BCTC Bullfrog tasting, via Axilla. Pours a flat black body with a nice one finger fizzy brown head that settled to a thin ring. The nose is kinda unusual, sour Stouts are a fairly underrepresented style. Sour and roasty with a great cherry and blueberry fruitiness, a nice level of acidity. The taste is sour and acetic at first with the hearty roast and sour cherry emerging more toward the finish. The acidity from the wild yeast really played well against the natural sour cherry fruit. Finishes with some competing roast, cocoa, brett, and acidity. Both dry and sweet at the same time, with a bracing acetic twang on the palate. Nice fizzy lively carbonation. Big thanks to Axilla for adding this one to the Bullfrog tasting line-up.

One of the many bottles of Bullfrog that Kramer brought to BCTC. Pours a dark black with a medium tan head. Light fruit, roast, and some funk to it. Quite intriguing and complex aromas. The interplay of roast bitterness, sour cherries, and overall tartness in very neat. Finishes off with more nice roast bitterness. Glad I got to try this one.

One of the awesomely cool hookups from kramer @ BCTC’09. Poured with a large chocolate head atop a black body. Aroma is very lactic cocoa, dark chocolate, even some light vanilla, and a musky-milk. Flavor is spiky acetic over the dark malts (light roast and cocoa). Cherry comes through in the acetic aftertaste. Green apple skins mixed in there as well. Pretty good sour stout,. they are hard to make, the roast is not strong, which I like.

I normally don’t like sour stouts but this one is so sour and has so much fruit that is was great the fruit is actually noticable and can pick out berries. Very complex with the roast ans sour aspects.

Bottle, huge thanks to Terry! Pours a thick, viscous black that is completely opaque. Really pretty mocha head. Sour aroma with chocolate-covered cherries. First sip is really earthy and dark, with a very well-melded sour presence. Mocha coffee dust falls in there somewhere. Very tart, long finish. This is a really complex brew from Bullfrog; the deep, earthy malt is transformed into a super tart oddity, and this weird, cherry presence rounds it out. One of the better brews I’ve had from Bullfrog, though it’s a bit heavier than I was hoping for. Still it’s exceedingly well-balanced and really interesting.

Poured an Ikea Black//Brown. Yeah, ikea color scale beyotch. nice 1/2" tan head, nice tight bubbles. Leaves a nice halo. Smells of tart cherry, us chocolate malt and black malt. Starts with a very tart and apply named cherry bomb on the front. Wild barrel aging gives it a nice acidic funk to the cherry, which is quickly followed by standard RIS flavors, roasted barley, rich coffee notes, bitter black malt, and finishes with a little sweeter cherry flavors and a nice dark chocolate which play very nicely together. highly attenuated, lots of sour plays off of normally sweet items. dry, well carbonated. It drinks very slow, but great sipping. There’s so much going on I really want to try again.

Bottle courtesy of the eepiest. This stuff was simply awesome. Pours a lovely black with a 2 finger chocolate head. Nose was tart cherries then gave way to chocolate and toasted malts. Flavor was similar to the nose in that it started of tart then ended up very chocolaty and smooth. It was awesome how everything worked together with this brew, great stuff!

750mL Bottle. Vibrant puckering nose, throwing a soft apple and raspberry juice, tart and unique. A bit of deeper stout, but mostly a really clean clear citric, lactic, and acetic acid amalgam. Pours a dark chocolate black-brown, with a cocoa-dust dark head. Leggy. Flavor is rich and real deep. This is highly sour and easily one of the most sour beers I’ve had. Fortunately, this sourness is incredibly clean. Mostly a lactic-citric run, with plain generic acidity, with, when warmed, throws a softer acetic edge. What’s really awesome is the blending of the cocoa and chocolate characters that lie deeper. The dry, cocoa-powder sensations casts incredible balance to the acidity and the cherry sweetness. So many good flavor, so clear, so mature and so refined. This is unique and outstanding. My one complaint is that the acidity gets a little overbearing and the acetic quality shines in the finish, but that’s being picky.