Pizza Port Le Woody

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

12.10.05 750ml bottle, RLB YEHA-05. Have had this four or five times now in the last year or so. Golden pour, hazy, with small white head. Aroma is citric, sour, pineapple, vanilla, and white toast. Amazingly inviting. The flavor marries the aromas and adds honey and apples. It’s sweet but tannic and tart, sour, dry. Big time quencher, this would be a great sour beer for summer time.

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

Glowing gold brew raises a good size white head. Nose reminds of lemongrass. Very tart and lemony. Makes me think of sour grass a little. A little funkiness to make things interesting. Tomme does it again!

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

~ Bottle #177.
A special gift from my bud Richard for my 34th Birthday -- a bottle of the hard-to-find Le Woodie...! And while it has nothing to do with watching The Lord Of Rings (which occupied me and Karen's later half of Labor Day Weekend), I think I can be forgiven such a faux pas, eh...? :)

Took my time with this 750mL bottle -- three seperate gobletful's. This allowed me to analyze this beer's various nuances over the course of time n' temperature. But needless to say, this was one heck of beer through-and-through...!

Pale orange in appearence, with quite minimal carbonation (standard for the Pizza Port 750mLs, seemingly), which fits for this beer's style.

And what style is this? Good question. The Brett come across pretty heavy, as does the more subtle suggestions of fruit (from the barrel-aging?)..., so I was guessing this was more along the lines of a Pseudo-Lambic that I was drinking.

Complexly fruity, champaigny-dry, some interesting tanins... but this is no wine, that's for sure! Rather, this is "merely" a very complex and interesting experiment, with some aspects actually coming across "more Belgian" than most "authentic Belgian beers" (if that makes any sense!).

A highly enjoyable three glasses-worth, that did end up watching "The Two Towers" even more enjoyable! Maybe the complexity of this beer melded nicely with the complxity of Middle Earth, eh?
//TB

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

Light gold color. Medium head. Aroma is malty and yeasty. A medium bodied ale. Fruity and sweet, with a very definite raw French Oak flavor. Funky and fruity., touch of goat cheese. Hop spiciness is at the finish. Very weird beer, I think it needs a bit more aging, but it was interesting. Not easy to describe. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is slightly bitter

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

clear deep golden color, this pours with almost no head. Is there such a thing as a "Golden Sour Ale"? initially a tart apple taste, the flavors change into a smoother taste, with some citrus notes. A great beer for a hot day.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Almost gold color with smallish head. Tart, sour and bitter all in one taste. You had to really dig deep to find any other flavors except sour grape. Strange indeed.

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

Poured a cloudy gold color with no head or lacing. Sweet aroma of tart cherry, barnyard funk, brett, cinnamon, nutmeg and cedar. Tart cherry taste followed by the same awesome coconut/vanilla taste as the Mother Pucker (probably because they were aged in the same barrel). With soft and lively carbonation. This was terrific and i'd love to try it again!

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

This brew pours with an orange body topped by a thin head with little lacing. The aroma is tart and vinious with slight woody notes. The flavor is tart and vinious with slight malty notes and a pronounced woodiness in the finish. medium to full bodied and dry.