Two Brothers Project Opus 10

Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Warrenville, Illinois USA

Aroma is a sour cheery scent. Color is a deep dark ruby with light carbonation and a nice tight head. Taste is dry and fruity. Starting with a medium body it goes down crisp with a tart feel. Finish comes in with mild sour cheery flavor, a faint yeast taste and a mellow sweetness, then ends with a dry almost wine like feel. This is a tasty Lambic with good cheery flavors.

Black cherry in color with a sizable pinkish beige hea. Aroma has a pleasant cherry and ripe fruit smell along with some barnyard funk, yeast, and some sugary sweetness - slightly less sweet than a Duchesse. Flavor has some subtle tart cherry and barnyard-ey maltiness to it with some wood towards the end. Not bad, but its not sour/sweet/funky or special enough to be world class. Good attempt, but I was hoping for more.

Reddish brown pour with minimal fizzy head. Nose of sour cherry, hints of barnyard, and malt. A bit sour giong down with the light fruits taking up most of the flavorbuds attention. Not horrible,not great.

Caged corked 12.7 fl. oz. green bottle, a bottling date of 2007 on the back label, sampled in a flute glass. L: A wood panel brown with red hues and a pale tan head of firm creamy foam. Good head retention and a fair amount of curtain-like lace. S: Musty funk, oak barrel woodiness and tartly sweet pureed cherry juice. Light traces of an earthy yeast spiciness. F&T: The ample carbonation gives this a firm syrupy feel in the mouth, a little sticky on the tongue. Flavors of earthy soil and spices, this has a lot more of a musty barnyard taste than I was expecting. The tartly sweet cherries play a secondary role in the taste. There is a tart pureed cherry juiciness, but it somewhat buried by a nutty, green woodiness. This is pleasing though, as I sip my way down the glass, the more I enjoy the taste of this lambic. Project Opus 10 is a refreshing and promising start of a series by Two Brothers, I can’t wait for the next one.

Bottle courtesy of hopdog. Pours brown with a stubborn tan head. Smells of sweet and tart cherries and touches of oak. Tastes lightly sour with some sweet touches. Not at all lambic like but subtly sour and enjoyable.

Bottle shared at fordest’s tasting. Very nice flacors with some sour cherries, maybe some sweet ones too. Nicely done.

12ish oz bottle thanks to boboski. Nice tart sour cherry aromas. Fruity and acidic. Flavors were less sour with touches of sweet on the finish. Still more sour. Pretty good. Thanks Jason.

Tried at fordest’s tasting with ibrew2or3, fordest, padrefan98, toncatcher, and others. I think fordest brought this via a trade with boboski. 2007 bottle. 12.7oz. Dark brown color. Sour. Nice cherry sour. Sour, but a hint of roasty aroma. A hint of oxidation, which seems to be well hidden well by the beers other flavors.