Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Marcos, California USA

It pours a clear brownish color with an orange tint, there is a thin head to it that fades quick. The nose is so intense with a lot of sour funk and dark fruit, mainly black current. Im thankful for Drink4Satan for sharing this beer with me. As you sip on it there is a initial sour bite that attacks your taste buds like a mouthful of sour patch kids. This beer has a good balance malt, hops, and carbonation with the right amount of sour funk. Overall it has a nice sour apple and is a bit cider like in character.

Thanks to STLWill for this bomb tasty McFresh! The pour produces a clear ruby tinted cola colour with a short-lived wispy off-white head. The nose is rife with bold oak, vanilla, tart cherries, horseblanket and bretty yeast galore. The flavour is even more intense, with cider-like sweetness and acetic acid/brett yeast. The woody, vanilla character, along with sour cherry notes linger for some time, fading to a faint fruity sweetness. The alcohol is well hidden and the carbonation is gently and massaging, not quite prickly. Bomb tities!

4oz sample of 2008 bottle in exchange for a 24 bottle case of Bell’s Oracle hehe. Huge thanks to drewbeerme! Pours a viscous-looking/syrupy somewhat clear lightly glowing brown and red with a fine tan/brown head. Aroma is of huge yogurt and cherries, light-brown sugar (opposed to dark brown sugar), seemingly virgin woodiness (not vanilla), almost cedary like fresh saw dust. Flavor is quite boozy and tannic at first, plenty of yogurt, moldy dull cherries that are conversely very sharply tart on the back-end, cheesy, the tartness lasts without any degradation though the long aftertaste, finishes very soft and smooth. Medium/full bodied, smooth light syrup texture, some hard-candy sweetness, almost no carbonation. Distinctly American. Thanks Andrew!

Bottle. Pours black with almost no head. Aroma is intoxicating, literally, of cherries, rum, raisins, dark chocolate, vanilla and sundry. Really, my nose isn’t developed enough to appreciate everything going on here. The first taste is sour, then turning sweet with a taste of figs, dates, bourbon, and flat out booze. A second taste really reveals the sourness and I wonder what I’ve gotten myself into. I really like this beer but feel that I can’t properly appreciate it... too much happening at once. The cherries are joined early on by a solid oak flavor, but then it is overwhelmed again by the sour overripe fruit flavors. Good? For sure. Up my alley? Indeed. Understood by me? Not really... and that makes me happy and sad at the same time.

Bottle from Sinners Group. Pours a dark brown with reddish highlights and thin head. Aroma is sweet and floral with notes of overripe cherries, rum soaked raisins, chocolate, light notes of bourbon, vanilla, oak, wood. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of rum-soaked raisins, figs, ripe dark fruit, caramel, light notes of bourbon, vanilla, smoke, wood, oak, hints of honey and bready yeast. Generally medium body with a sweet boozy goodness.

courtesy of ibrew2or3. ’08 bottle. Pours dark brown, thin fizzy beige head with nice golden lacing. Aroma had great notes of cherry puree with hints of bourbon in the back. Flavor, barrel with warming abv, some light fruit tartness. Hints of malts and chocolate. Barrel doesn’t come too up front keeps some nice hints of candi sugar, caramel. Nice cherry notes with thick puree mouthfeel.

750 mL into Orval trappist. Faint pop with the cork coming off. Pours a cloudy, deep ruby brown with no head like flat cherry Pepsi. Completely flat. Aroma is rich in sour cherries, tannins, sherry, oak-aged whiskey. Taste is close to a Flemish sour: mouth-puckering cherries, candi sugar but then shows notes of whiskey, oak chips, hints of soy sauce. A good amount of warming alcohol shows through. Reminds me a lot of De Dolle Oerbier Special Reserva but without the beauty and refinement. I feel there is a large dichotomy over this beer. One person who tasted this with me said it tasted like "muddy water," another said it looked and tasted like "flat Cherry Dr. Pepper." Sort of disappointment for rating #600 but it is certainly one of a kind though I would think twice about all the hype. A bourbon barrel-aged quadrupel/lambic is certainly a strange combo and is fascinating but perhaps this is too many disjointed flavors all combined at once.

Thanks kiefdog for the share. Pours dark brown with red highlights and an off-white head. Nose is tart cherries, malt, must, cobweb, some vinegar, sugar, and some barrel. Flavor is tart cherry burst up front, malt, unsweet raisins, chardonnay/ barrel tartness, and some brett. Finishes off with more tart cherries. Medium-bodied with lingering tart fruit. Enjoyable beer.