Portsmouth Flanders Red

Brewed by Portsmouth Brewery
Style: Sour Ale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Bottle shared by hwwty4, thanks a lot Bill. Pours a dark brown color, clear at the beginning pours and muddies up with the later pours. Has a medium strong head with a sticky lacing. Aroma is full of elements, there is a strong maltiness represented with some chocolate, then there is a woodsy, soil-like earthiness. It s very thick and enticing, think of a Scotch Ale mixed with some musk. No real cherry or much Flanders Red characteristics to speak of but that comes in the flavor. Lots of musky cherry there with a nice and cool earthy tartness and some apple skins to finish it off. Its not sour, its definitely tart, and its definitely got that earthy cherry aspect of a Flanders Red. No acetic character, which I have o.d.’ed on recently so I found this so damn refreshing for a Flanders Red. It is very unassuming but has a nice malt background to go with a more authentic Flanders Red character. Has a nice full mouthfeel with a little bit of slickness at the end. I could drink this for a while.
22oz bomber, sampling glass, thanks again Bill.

Really nice sour ale. Dark brown copper pour with great head. Strawberry and caramel aroma. Light tartness isn’t overwhelming. Super balance with a great light sweet/tart flavor.

My second Sour of the day, yippee, 7th rating in San Diego, yep thats me. In Cali, further away than florida, sent to me. Held till now, for the real democracy in Cali, I have held it after the non-legal period of non floridian ratings. Pours reddish with a brown color and a tan ring. Nose is sweet and fruity and oh oh oh oh so funky. Taste is tart and rich and prickly on the tongue and overall drinkable. I don’t know but hell, hell, someone said this tasty like weed, another said it smelled like bong water. I didn’t get either of those, but I liked it a lot a lot more than you’d guess.

On tap at brewery. Pour a dark reddish brown with a good sized head. Nice fruity aroma. Sourness was nicely balanced with a nice caramel sweetness at the end. Overall good beer.

Served from a bottle at toncatchers T3 tasting! Thanks to stefanje, lagunitasfan, weeheavysd, fordest, wetherel, alohac and of course toncatcher for suppling the house and grub. I liked this sour ale. I was not one of the haters here. I liked the dry tart, and flavorful sourness.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Brown in color with a decent sized beige head. Aroma is of apricot, raspberry, peach, plum, light grapefruit, cranberry, and grain. Taste is apricot, apple skin, cranberry, wood, peach and tart.

bottle thanks to bu11zeye. deep chocolate brown with a cream head. nose of cherry, peach, slight sourness and vanilla? big flavor of cranberries and a very sour/tart finish. delicious.

T3. Orange red brown. Did this great thing in the glass where it broke the light into spectrums in the glass. Thick lace/light head: you choose. Smell is bongwater (yes, that was me). Taste is tart and pungent.