One Door Flemish Style Sour Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 3

22oz bottle -

OK, so I've seen this bottle/brand in my store for quite awhile now. Hermitage is really hit or miss (mostly miss) but I was hankering for something new so.....

The beers strength is its appearance, and it pours out a beautiful, clear, chocolate-mahogany brown body, 1" dirty-white head with quick dissipation. Sitting there in my glass, it looks like a top-notch whiskey...looks great. But, that's about where the goodness ends. Aroma has this odd maraschino-cherry, Sweet-Tart, fig juice, cough-syrup thing going on. It's oddly intriguing. Flavor is pretty blech, with some odd cherry jam sweetness mixed with cider vinegar and chlorine. The odd thing is, the sweetness and acidic characters are all really toned down...watered down would be the better word. Really hard to enjoy this one, and to call it a Flemish Sour is a crime.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

a little sweet and definitely spiced. there's two trains of thought here...one being that this wasn't really meant to be a sour. that it was a mistake they botted, and i can see where one might think that. maaaybe a touch funky, but not really sour at all. if it didn't say sour on the label i'd have thought i was drinking a weird mediocre spiced ale. really not much to go back for, at any price point. not a horrible beer, but definitely a joke of a sour ale.

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

Sampled on 2/5/2011. This wild ale pours a cheery amber color from a 22oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is dark fruit and sweet, touch of tart/sourness. A medium bodied wild ale. The malts are fruity and sweet, a little yeasty and estery. Some tartness and sourness going in this beer as well. Not sure just what to make of this beer, there are some aspects I like and some that make me wonder WTF is going on here. I like the malty sweetness, but the tartness is kind of weird and I am not convinced that it was planned to be there. Anyway… The tartness does seem to intensify as it warms. Drinkable beer, and an interesting $4 bomber wild ale. Would buy some more, maybe want to age them a bit and see what will happen. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly tart.