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Cherry Woods
Cisco Brewers Inc.
- From:
- Cisco Brewers Inc.
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 13.84%
- Reviews:
- 75
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 09, 2020
- Added:
- May 18, 2010
- Wants:
- 43
- Gots:
- 35
Wheat based ale aged in oak for 12 months with proprietary bugs and whole sour cherries. This beer is quenching, dry, and visually stunning.
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Ratings by Estocker:
Reviewed by Estocker from California
3.95/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3.95/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Looks like pink lemonade when poured. A light pink with hues of yellow and possibly some blue.
Smells very good, I wasn't sure what to expect before opening this, but I am definitely excited to give it a sip. Not much of a vinegar smell, which is a huge plus. There's some nice funky, fruity flavor that dominates the nose. Smells like funky cherries aged in oak wine barrels. I swear I'm getting some lemon flavor in there as well.
Tastes similar to the nose, but I want to say it feels a little watered down. The taste is muted compared to what the nose prepares you for. I definitely feel like I'm tasting lemons, although it might just be the tartness playing tricks on me. There is a cherry presence, but it just another piece of the subtle complexity. Taste reminds me of cherry lemonade mixed with booze, in a good way.
drinkability is awesome, not too sour to have a few glasses of without ruining your pallet.
Dec 24, 2010Smells very good, I wasn't sure what to expect before opening this, but I am definitely excited to give it a sip. Not much of a vinegar smell, which is a huge plus. There's some nice funky, fruity flavor that dominates the nose. Smells like funky cherries aged in oak wine barrels. I swear I'm getting some lemon flavor in there as well.
Tastes similar to the nose, but I want to say it feels a little watered down. The taste is muted compared to what the nose prepares you for. I definitely feel like I'm tasting lemons, although it might just be the tartness playing tricks on me. There is a cherry presence, but it just another piece of the subtle complexity. Taste reminds me of cherry lemonade mixed with booze, in a good way.
drinkability is awesome, not too sour to have a few glasses of without ruining your pallet.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.78/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Threw this one down I believe over 4th of July 2018, had sat on this one in the cellar for several years before throwing down. I would estimate the bottle is from 2010-2012.
In contrast to the red label, this pours like an amber colored ale but with the slightest hint of cherry color added to it. Perhaps using whole cherries did not impact the color much. Does not retain a head. The aroma has absorbed lots of oak and freely disperses it. Didn't think there was any funk notes. Requisite cherry.
Taste is a nice middle of the road, to even these days slightly less than average sourness and acidity, captures a good cherry perspective to it without being sugary or too juicy. Another way of saying it is that it retained its "beerness" despite the fruit addition. Carbonation is low.
Low alcohol and soft carbonation enhances the drinkability and this was a fun drink from a time when I didn't know of too many wild ales in that part of the country. Not Earth shattering, but a fun bottle from one of my first trades.
Nov 09, 2020In contrast to the red label, this pours like an amber colored ale but with the slightest hint of cherry color added to it. Perhaps using whole cherries did not impact the color much. Does not retain a head. The aroma has absorbed lots of oak and freely disperses it. Didn't think there was any funk notes. Requisite cherry.
Taste is a nice middle of the road, to even these days slightly less than average sourness and acidity, captures a good cherry perspective to it without being sugary or too juicy. Another way of saying it is that it retained its "beerness" despite the fruit addition. Carbonation is low.
Low alcohol and soft carbonation enhances the drinkability and this was a fun drink from a time when I didn't know of too many wild ales in that part of the country. Not Earth shattering, but a fun bottle from one of my first trades.
Reviewed by macrosmatic from Florida
3.88/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Thanks owed to ActonBrewer for sending this one so many years ago. Reviewed from (very) long-standing notes. A 2010 vintage bottle that disappeared into the back of the cellar-fridge, consumed on 10/30/17. Poured from the corked and caged 750 mL bottle into a Cycle Brewing goblet.
A: A very minimal cork “pop” when this bottle is opened. Pours a mildly hazy gold with pink-red highlights. Very little visible carbonation, and no real head formation - just a few stray bubbles. This looks pretty flat, but otherwise pretty.
S: Fairly intense sour cherries and funk, with a mix of lactic and malic acids and just a touch of acetic sourness. Some citric acid, cracker malts, and oak. Mild apple or cran-apple, likely from some yeast esters.
T: Sour cherries, tart lactic acid, and mild vinous character. Oak and tannins and vanilla. Pale cracker malts. Some funk (cheese and feet and a bit of basement) and vinous, but less than the nose suggsested. Light yeast esters here again. More dry sour cherries and citric acidity at the swallow. There’s a mild spicy dryness – like the aftertaste of cinnamon (but without the cinnamon flavors). It’s not quite like oak tannins (though those are here too). I don’t know if it’s something from the cherry skins or what – it’s a bit odd, albeit not entirely unpleasant.
M: A light body and low alcohol presence. There's almost no carbonation at all at this point. The label claims that this is “lightly carbonated”, but it would seem what carbonation there was has been lost over the years. But it’s not a deal breaker.
O: Pretty decent beer, though I wish the funk that seemed promised on the nose was more present in the flavor. And the wheat that the label mentioned is largely (or entirely) absent; unfortunate, since I think a little more substantial malt bill wouldn’t have hurt this at all. But still pretty tasty.
Aug 03, 2019A: A very minimal cork “pop” when this bottle is opened. Pours a mildly hazy gold with pink-red highlights. Very little visible carbonation, and no real head formation - just a few stray bubbles. This looks pretty flat, but otherwise pretty.
S: Fairly intense sour cherries and funk, with a mix of lactic and malic acids and just a touch of acetic sourness. Some citric acid, cracker malts, and oak. Mild apple or cran-apple, likely from some yeast esters.
T: Sour cherries, tart lactic acid, and mild vinous character. Oak and tannins and vanilla. Pale cracker malts. Some funk (cheese and feet and a bit of basement) and vinous, but less than the nose suggsested. Light yeast esters here again. More dry sour cherries and citric acidity at the swallow. There’s a mild spicy dryness – like the aftertaste of cinnamon (but without the cinnamon flavors). It’s not quite like oak tannins (though those are here too). I don’t know if it’s something from the cherry skins or what – it’s a bit odd, albeit not entirely unpleasant.
M: A light body and low alcohol presence. There's almost no carbonation at all at this point. The label claims that this is “lightly carbonated”, but it would seem what carbonation there was has been lost over the years. But it’s not a deal breaker.
O: Pretty decent beer, though I wish the funk that seemed promised on the nose was more present in the flavor. And the wheat that the label mentioned is largely (or entirely) absent; unfortunate, since I think a little more substantial malt bill wouldn’t have hurt this at all. But still pretty tasty.
Cherry Woods from Cisco Brewers Inc.
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
133 ratings
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