 ross (1709), weddington, South Carolina, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 11, 2006 375ml Bottle. Batch 002. Pours out a yellowish orange color with a little bit of a white head. Smell is sour, with some notes of wine, fruits, and a touch of hops. Taste is sour and slightly bitter with a nice bready oak flavored taste. A truly unique beer in all sense of the word. Very interesting, should be fantastic in another year. Great beer from a great brewery!
mds (2112), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 10, 2006 Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow body with a white frothy head. Smells awesome! Green piney hops, brett-ridden, soft wheat, bread, and sweaty notes. Nice mixture of sugar and bread flavours along with dry yeastiness. Flavourful and wild!
WeeHeavySD (2960), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 10, 2006 Updated: Aug 3, 2008
Re-rate big old magnum @ RBSG I provided. This was sick sick sick.
375ml bottle, batch 001. Purchased at the Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, CA. Pours lightly golden straw with a large puffy white head. The aroma is citrus, oaky, and slighly like a lambic. The taste is sweet mild complex and robust. It has wine like qualities that remind me of a gueze. Its very good and unique certainly a wine like beer hybrid.
blankboy (3198), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 8, 2006 Bottle shared with HogTownHarry, biegaman, mds, Radek Kliber, tupalev & the rest of the gang. Pours a very cloudy yellow with a small diminishing creamy white head. Nice and subtle sour aroma with sweet malt, fruit, yeast and some faint oak. Flavour follows the aroma and is quite pleasant -- it’s complex, well balanced and really easy to drink. Medium bodied, dry mouthfeel. Like the other Russian River beers I’ve had, this is really good stuff.
Numenor (869), Richmond, Virginia, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 1, 2006 Goldend body with a thin head. Sweet with some sour accents. Dry body, some light fruit accents.
HogTownHarry (3988), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Nov 29, 2006 Bottle (375ml). Shared with blankboy, biegaman, mds, Radek Kliber, tupalev and others. Rating #1900. Poured cloudy yellow-orange with an average creamy white head. Luscious balanced aroma; tart brett, restrained oak, sweet malt. The taste is everything the aroma promised and more - smooth, balanced between lightly funky/sour yeast and mellowed oaky malt, medium-long finish slides along like it’s on rails - nice! Dry, astringent, nicely carbonated mouthfeel - just awesome, like a softened, oak-aged Orval in a lot of ways, extremely easy to drink. Thanks for making the trip to get this one, man!
maniac (2628), Richmond, Virginia, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Nov 29, 2006 Updated: Jan 16, 2009Bottle on 11/30/2008 at the 3rd Annual Richmond Industry Gathering. Clear golden body with a thin frothy white head. Sour fruit and funk aroma. Big sour flavor with some light fruit and faint caramel. Light body with high carbonation. 8/3/8/416 - 3.9
11/29/2006: Sampled at the Richmond Beer Industry Gathering 2006. Hazy amber body with a small creamy white head. Sweet but sour oaked aroma. Dry sour fruit flavor with some light vanilla hints. 8/3/9/4/17 - 4.1
SpringsLicker (2042), Tennessee, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Nov 26, 2006 Thanks to droopy49 for this one.
Pours fairly clear, light golden in color, with a large, lasting, tight white head.
Fruity aroma. Slightly sour like an apple cider cellar. Some leather. Very complex and agreeable aroma.
The flavor starts with some sweetness which is quickly overcome by a slightly acidic tartness that finishes dry and then turning spicy. I really liked the playfullness of this beer. The flavors and aromas are complex, yet this is light and very drinkable. Well done.
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