Pizza Port Le Woody Brune

Formerly brewed at Pizza Port (Solana Beach)
Style: Sour Ale
Solana Beach, California USA

750mL bottle. Murky dark red-brown with some orange tinges. Small off-white head. Sweet and sour fruit, lactic tartness, and some tannin in the aroma. Some plastic phenol and tart fruit up front. Astringent tartness, fruit, and tannin flavors. Residual astringency and some tartness in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium light, rather dry.

On tap at the 2006 Pizza Port Belgian Fest. The Flemish sour pours a medium brown color. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is tart, woody, cherry, fruity and vinous. Medium bodied Flemish Sour. Malts are fruity, sweet and tart. Lots of cherries, lots of wood, some funk as well. Damn this is a mix and match flavor bonanza. Nice balance though and a very nice crisp dry finish. Excellent beer. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is crisp and clean. Aftertaste is tart and slightly bitter

Draft, poured at the 2006 Pizza Port 12 Hour Belgian Beer Party. To be honest, these sour beers just aren’t my thing. But, this is a pretty good example, for those of you who like this style of beer.

Poured a grapey prune color with a medium sized, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of dried fruits, some white wine, hay, light leather, and tons of wild yeasts. Taste of dark fruits (prune seems to come through strong) lengthy sourness, with lots of brett as well.

From a 750mL Bottle. Reddish caramel, mahongany colored pour with a healthy finger of fine bubbled off-white head and some hazy yeast. Crisp, powerful aroma of an abundance of sour cherries, complete with a woody pittiness. Not really balsamic-y, the sour characters are much more on the clean and bright end of the style spectrum. A perfectly balanced vanilla-oakiness softens it up just a touch, rounding out the complex, clean, and bright bouquet wonderfully. Light bodied, crisply carbonated mouthfeel. The crisp and bright mouthfeel is the perfect compliment for the tart, acidic flavors. Loads of ripened cherry flavors and freshly squeezed raspberry juice blend nicely with an earthy woodiness and seed-like dryness. A hint of sour tangerine and oaky vanilla also add a great complexity. Some soft caramels dance in the background with a gentle peppery spice. Awesome brew, and seems to be drinking marvelously right now.

DRAFT: big tan head, brown chestnut color. Abso-fuckin-lutely beautiful nose of wood, cherry-rhubard sourness and funky fine yeastiness. Roasty nut flavors intertwined with oaky wood and sweet chocolate...candy bar-like at times with that mysteriously quenching brett finish. Is this the perfect beer? I’ve heard mixed feelings as far as the bottled version. Fuck it though.

750ml bottle the BBB63 shared with me. Loads of carbonation and a murky reddish brown. Formed a nice head with good lacing. The aroma had a cinnamon quality to it, along with some grape notes. The Belgian character was there, but not as in your face as other eamples of the style. The flavor came across in three phases to me. It started off with a tropical fruitiness like a Life Saver, the the middle was sour yet still fruity like a package of Sour Jacks. The finish was pleasantly bitter with a touch of oak. Full rich body with a dry finish. Over all I enjoyed the beer, but find this style to be not one of my favorites.

750 ml bottle and sampled with tjthresh; The pour was a muddy reddish brown color (but I never let it fully settle) with a small fizzy head, lots of carbonation, and moderate lace.
The aroma has notes of oaky wood, cherry and apple, clove and juniper, caramel, brett and light yeast funk, very Gluhwein like on the nose.
The flavor profile is much more sour on the palate than the nose indictated with a forefront of cherry and lemon twang backed by a yeasty dry finish. The brett and wood tones seem to become more dominate as I drank it. Some bready notes and even a hint of salty character appears as well. Nice and complex.
The feel is lively yet lush, the sourness cleans the palate with great effectiveness.
A top-notch Flemish Sour I am glad to finally try.