Ommegang Rouge Grand Cru

On tap at Collins. I used to drink sours all night; this would have been a great choice to add any lineup. Sour cherry, but still sweet. Finished nice, drinkable.

Poured mahogany with a thin white head and visible carbonation. Aroma is vinegar, yeast, and sour cherry. Flavor is extremely tart and cherry like, with some yeast, lemon, and oak also present. This was my first taste of this style, but I quite like it.

Caveat: I am not a huge fan of sours, but I’ll try to be objective here. Of all the sour beers I’ve had this one is not that bad. I don’t know if I could finish a whole serving, but perhaps one day my palette will learn to love the sour. Anyway, it pours clear, light red with a fine, bubbly head. Nose is sour fruits and a little bread. Taste is sour, with notes of lemon, cherry and grapefruit (maybe). Very tingly in the mouth. Tart. Finishes crisper than anything I’ve ever had.

Sample at NotF. Pours a red color with a small off white head. Nose is sour fruit and toast. Palate is quite full in the mouoth. Flavors of toasty malt and sour fruit. Quite sour.

Draft at Tyler’s Taproom in Apex. Short white head. Maroon body. Aroma is wine, vinegar, sour cherries, tart fruit, wet wood and cat urine. Taste is more sour fruit notes, cherries, oak, wet wood, lemons, light vinegar. Body is acidic with puckering tartness. Light carbonation and light-medium body. Ends with more sour cherry, vinegar, oak, lemons and cat urine.

My first sour. On tap at Three Floyds. Pours reddish brown with white head. Aroma is sour, yeast, dark fruits and malt. Flavor is sour cherries, dark fruits, yeasty and really tart. Mouthfeel was nice and had really good carbonation. Seems like this is a pretty tart sour from all the ratings. Glad I started off with a good example of the style given all the sours I have sitting in the cellar.

Tap at Sugar Maple. This beer is simply phenomenal. I didn’t know it was actually brewed in Belgium. Here I was thinking it was the first good American Flemish sour. :( Either way, it’s a great beer. Super sour. Cherry and clean pale malts. Sour mouth watering texture. I usually drink multiple glasses of this when I’m there if it’s still on tap.

On tap at the 3Fs brewpub in Munster, IN. This one started a bit simple with some imposing tart and sour notes, but showed more complexities as it went down. In the aroma, fruity sour candy candy, apples, and mild mixed fruit sour are the notes I got. A nice bright red-orange color and pretty wispy white head. A good amount of funk yeast and fruits, with a tartness that is slightly too much for me but still enjoyable. I do like the nice fruit profile from berries to mild fruits to sweet apples. Not my favorite sour, but I did like this one overall.