Cascade The Vine

Brewed by Cascade Brewing @ Raccoon Lodge
Style: Sour Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Bottle shared at Hophead22’s tasting. Pours a cloudy orange with a frothy white head. Aroma is sour and fruity with some barrel. Flavor is tart with grapes, green apple and other fresh fruits, and a light funk. Medium bodied with generous carbonation.

Thanks to Riversideak for the bottle. Hazy amber pour, fizzy off white head and spotty lace. Yarrow, star anise, and grape on the nose. Sweet upfront with a mild sour grape finish. I was expecting a little more acidity, however its still a solid brew

Bottle thanks to ucusty. Nice one, Dave. This was unexpected, and not sour in the way I expected. As spicy as it is sour, especially in the aroma. Maybe some rye notes? Tastes sweet. Some white grape and honey. Not bad, but not what I expected at all.

Thanks ucusty for sharing. Pours a cloudy amber with a one finger offwhite head. The nose is very fruity, grapey, sweet spices, some honey. Flavor is tart with a nice white grape presence, mild sweetness, yeasty and fruity. Palate is mildly tart. Very tasty.

Bottle. Pours clear amber-copper with a continuously replenishing bubbly off-white head. Tart, musty aroma of grape/raisin, cinnamon, and oak. Kind of suggests an apple crisp. Initially strong tart citrus taste quickly fades, leaving subtle sweet earthy grapes. Light bodied, dry finish. Surprised it’s 9.2%.

Bottle thanks to Kan at the First Annual Chicago Sour Tasting. Pours a light hazed orange with a thin creamy off white soapy head that laces down in figurines. A decent amount of hops in the nose cittrussy soapy sweet and dirty. Sweet sugarry malts that kinda taste like smarties. Some earthiness and acidity. Ok

Warm sunset amber color with light cover of bubbles. Sweet tart aroma abuzz with herbal essence. Strong flavors of dry white grapes. Interesting, goes down quite easy for the strength, with a dry finish.

Bottle. Pours medium amber with a thin off-white head and ropey lacing. Nose is very spicy and vinous, smells like older white wine, plus ginger, cinnnamon, some funky brett. Really interesting and different, I dug this like crazy.