UPDATED: NOV 23, 2021 Bottle. Gift. Bottled 03/03/2017; Drank Nov 2021 - 6.8% abv not 8.0 - Clear deep red. Slight head. Big berry fruity aroma. Juicy tart blackberries, wine, lemon. Yeasty, brett. Woody, spicy. Quite dry. Tart sour blackberries, vinous and a bit acidic. Great depth of flavour. Nicely done. Liked this. Very good. (2021-11)

UPDATED: OCT 8, 2021 2015 bottle from Master of Malt stash. Pours clear shiny orange, very little head. Nose is nice and complex with woody tannins, tart and sour, dry, little leather, little vinous, balsamic vinegar. Taste is still mouth puckering sour, funky, tart fruity, can still get hint of blackberries and vinous grape notes, woody, vinegar. A lot going on and properly sour for my palate. Unfortunately no fresh one to compare to but doing well.

UPDATED: JUL 28, 2021 12 oz. bottle from Total Wine (North Hills), Raleigh, NC (bottled March 3, 2017). Listed as 6.8% ABV. Dark orange pour with a quick off-white head. Aroma of tart berries, balsamic vinegar, and damp oak. Taste is a wonderful blend of blackberry, red wine, sour cherries, and cabernet oak. Tart fruit lingers on the palate. A wonderful wild ale!

UPDATED: MAR 28, 2021 Bottle sample at a tasting, 2017 edition. Slightly hazy copper with no head. The aroma has notes of wood, acetone, raspberry, yeasts. The flavor is sour with notes of raspberry, wood, acetone, acidic, wine, yeasts, some oxidation. Dry, medium to full-bodied.

UPDATED: MAR 20, 2021 Bottle at a tasting. 2017ed. Hazy peach color. Aroma is funky, floral, spicy. Sour, forest berries, plums, wood, wine, funky, light acetic and vinegar notes. Medium-bodied, dry. Very good.

UPDATED: DEC 16, 2020 Sour cherry, wine, some acetone, muddy peachy color with minimal sized white head, heavy sour taste, cherries, biscuit, woody, medium body, lively carbonation.

UPDATED: DEC 10, 2020 Smell is of a nice sour beer! Cloudy orange appearance...very flavorful sour with light sweetness... great mouthfeel and very little palate smacking at the end...very smooth...had at Dano's for lunch during pandemic...~285,000 US deaths

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2019 Sour, funky, tarty and delicious. Another great sour, nailing the berries and vinegar funk. Quite enjoyable.

Bottle at goose island shoreditch. Pours murky orange, nose is custard cream, BlackBerry, oak, funk, taste is tart berries, balsamic vinegar, oak, funk.

UPDATED: APR 27, 2019 Minimal off white head left a small collar on a hazy blood orange flesh coloured body. Sour, vinous aroma with grape, wood & spices. Medium bodied, sharp as a pin on the tongue with an abrupt clean finish. White wine, spices, spices, jam, wood, berries & yeast tastes.