Captain Lawrence Rosso e Marrone

Brewed by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Pleasantville, New York USA

Bottles thanks to a few good friends...Rciesla, ygtbsm94 and BrianK. Thanks to all. Sitting here living in the past by watching the State Wrestling Championships. Figured it was a good time to crack a special beer. Pours brown with a quick fading tan head. Aroma is very tart fruit and vinegary. There is caramel or something I can’t quite get. Very tart with lasting sourness. Very good and don’t detect anything off. Full and smooth. A very, very good brew from Captain Lawrence. Probably doesn’t get to Cuvee de Castleton Batch one, but not many beers do. One last thing i would like to add. The wax on the bottle is a mofo to get off.

12.7oz. bottle, batch 1, with a big thank you to both Jabic and LilBeerDoctor for the trades! Pours a muddy brown with a fizzy tan head that’s gone in an instant, leaving not so much as a bubble of head. At least the nose makes up for the less than stellar appearance, with sour apple, grape and cherry, light funk and oak, and some mustiness. Flavor is also nice, with more sour apple and cherry, grape skin, funk, and oak. There’s a unique, ponderable quality about this one that is quite enjoyable, but can’t quite nail it down. Could actually stand the sour and funk to come out more, so hope some age will do that. Thanks again to both Margaret and Jimmy, sure appreciate the chance to try this one!

another messed up beer from CL smell of oak, grapes,funk, FLAT murky brown sludge this looks like a bottle of dregggggggzzz

Thanks hophead75. Pours a mice murky purple red with no head. The nose is tart, acidic, fruity, nice oak character, vinous, woody. Flavor is tart and acidic, vinous fruity notes, yeasty, oak and barrel are nicely done. Palate is sour and tart with a nice carbonation.

Nifty little bottle shared by emacgee - thanks, Ethan! Something rustic about the look and feel of the bottle, like something you’d find in farm country. Dusky red-brown pour, well carbonated and attractive. Certainly the nose is tart and oaky, but there are other elements playing around in there too, mildly sweet notes that complement the tannins well. Lively mouthfeel brings out this complexity even more, with the intense tartness coming to the fore without tamping down the other flavors. Very nice indeed.

In short: Sourness, oak, cherries, funkiness and red wine dominate in this ultra-intense Flemish-Sour interpretation. Fantastic.
How: From the bottle at Boston Extreme Beer Fest 2009. Multiple samples. Many many. Many. And then some more. And one last one for the road.
The look: Slightly cloudy (if first serving of a bottle) to totally opaque (if last serving of a bottle) redish-amber body topped by a small beige head.
In long: I could smell this beer from 10 feet away. Intensely funky, oaky and cherry nose. Taste is intense. First, compared to most intensely sour/acidic beer this one has a well malted body. A whole lot of cake-like malts are the foundation an array of flavours including caramelized sour cherries, sour oak socked in red wine, earth, more wood, barnyard funk, vinegar acidity, more. Similarity could be drawn to a less complex but sharper and more intense La Folie. This is not a session beer, this is the most intense and one of the most complex Captain Lawrence creation so far. This beer may not be better than sex but sliced bread is in serious trouble.

Not the biggest lover of sours, but this one is quite tasty. Not a lot of head, beige in color. Oaky aroma, sour taste hits palate first followed my oaky after taste. Enjoyable.

Rating 200... and it’s been a hellish two weeks since the release having to not crack one of these open after tasting it at the release. Bottle. Pours an almost muddy brown, with a slight beige head that vanishes rather fast. Aroma is cabernet, a bit of malt, oak, some funky wine cork smell. Starts sweet, moves into an almost vinegary tartness, but without as much bracing acidity. Tons of tannins on the finish, and a remarkably long lasting light bitter/sour thing. Can’t remember anything I’ve had where the finish was this long lasting. Remarkably good, and really did make me rethink beer, and brought back a ton of memories of my summer job in college at a wine shop, slowly turning into a wine geek, before eventually moving on to being a beer geek.