Captain Lawrence Cuvee de Castleton

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

I finally get to try this thanks to Maltajo, thanks Joe. This batch #4 bottle pours clear gold with thin white head. The aroma offers up apples and pears and then it rolls quickly toward tartness, slight vinegar and then a sense of spicy oak. The taste is delivers big tartness and then some vinegar mixing with a modes level of sweet apples and pears. To midway and into the finish the dry tartness ramps up and lingers along with a thin layer of vinegar right into the after taste. Nice crisp fresh brew. Dig it.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Sampled at the SLC tasting 1/23/10
Appearance: Pours a cloudy straw color (looks like grapefruit juice), no head or lacing
Aroma: Sour fruits, sweet malts, oak, wheat
Taste: Tart, but some nice fruit, oak and sweet malts
This was a good sour beer. Not so sour that you loose your tastebuds and couldn’t taste anything else in the beer, but enough that you know your drinking a sour ale that was brewed great.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

375ml bottle Batch 3 -

Aroma - oak barrel, lemon/grapefruit juice, lacticy-tartness, and something that reminded me of rice wine vinegar.

Apperance - cloudy yellow body, intial 2" head with very quick disipation melted into zero head

Taste - unripened grapes, grapefruit juice, both tart and sour with a noticeable oak prescence

Palate - sharp, biting acidicness, mineral water like finish

Overall - very enjoyable. Not a top of the line sour ale, but extremely enjoyable and would love to be able to enjoy another bottle.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Bottle: Poured a cloudy dirty yellow color ale with a very small bubbly head with no retention or lacing. Aroma is quite complex with loads of musky white wine notes with some funky barnyard notes and a light oak and tart finish. Taste is very much complex with again some musky white wines notes with definitive Brett notes though not as much as expected and some tart finish with hints of oaks. I was expecting more sour character but still very much enjoy the final product. Body is full with limited filtration and not much carbonation with alcohol being very well hidden. Great experience and while not being an everyday kind of beer it is surely something I would wish to have more often.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 10

I was told this would be a grand drinking experience, and they were right. The beer poured a cloudy golden yellow colour with a thin white head. The tart apple aroma grabbed the nostrils quickly and gave way to some perfumey hints. The flavour was a beautiful mixture of light fruit, sour notes, and nice bitter finish. A very refreshing sour ale, not too heavy at all.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Sampled on 12/12/2008. This sour ale pours a light gold color from a 750ml bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity, grapey, a touch tart and a little funky. A medium to light bodied sour ale. The malts are fruity and sweet. The hops are floral. Kind of a subtle and delicate beer, from the subtle nose to the dry and bretty finish. There is a touch of grape throughout. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter and very dry.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottled, thanks to omhper. Pours out in a very hazy pale yellow with a small white head. Extremely tart of lemon and horse blanket. Tart and really dry flavour of grapefruit, brett, lemon-rind, stable and hay with a a whiff of acidic tropical fruit. Puckering tart long finish of grapefruit, green apples mild wood and plenty of brett. Wow, simply fantastic!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, hops, yeast and some caramel & earth in a wellbalanced mix. Flavour is sour fruits, some wood and acidic notes. Some tropical fruits lurking in the background balancing it up to a refreshing brew.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Original rating: Bottle from jjpm74, a very generous dude. The pour was hazy golden in color, head initially pretty spritzy, gushing, quickly diminishing to a thin head to nothing. Aroma is super aromatic, smelled far away from the bottle, in the glass though a nice blend of grapes, sour citrus, and wood notes. Funk and horse blankets pretty soft, though. The flavor was muscrat grapes with lemon tartness, bret notes, finishing with a yeasty bready malt support that was pretty phenomenal. I love the malt support in these sours, and this didn't take the amber to brown track, but sure was enjoyable. Mouthfeel was spritzy, pretty drinkable within style. Thanks, John, and great sharing w/ ya, Bert. Woo hoo! Re-rate, bottle from Cletus, as beer number five in a killer July 09 Super Secret Sour State Line Tasting (SSSSLT) featuring (first to last by my counts): Supplication, Consecration, La Folie, Dissident, Cuvee de Castleton, Red Poppy, Lambic de Hill, Festina Lente, Panil. Bottle opened and white grapes jump out, strong pop sound. Spices in the finish with some cellar-mustiness. Floral notes alongside this one too. Excellent, well done, a novel brew, props points for the originality. Pretty drinkable, hardly that sour/tart after all these others in this run. Thanks, John!

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Pear juice with a real fizzy white head that fades away completely.
Strong yogurt lactic aroma. Soapy.
Very sour, yet not offensive.
Light body. Tongue washed with scrubbing bubbles.
Not something that I really need to drink again. I’ve read some of the other review and wonder what the hell was I drinking.