Cor Cordium
Cambridge Brewing Company

375ml bottle. Copper gold with a creamy film head, nice streams of tiny bubbles. Slight aroma of cherry and maybe something of cranberry. Taste is tart, the mix of cherry and cranberry is not sweet but hard to pick out the individual pieces. Feel is a little puckering, dry. Overall, pretty good but not quite to my taste - a little too puckering tart and dry and the fruitiness is flattened.

Wild ale brewed w/ Cornelian Cherries. Earthy Brett funk, cherry skin, lemon and lacto. Lower sweetness, pleasant tartness and dry, short finish. Not bad, getting a geuze-like quality.

Poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a pale ruddy yellow to copper/slight hues of amber towards the center. Light cap of a little white foamy head that slid off at a nice pace. Not much lace, somewhat stringy yet messy.
The aroma had a nice blend of sweet cherries to it's tart skin even guiding in a fair contour of the cherry skin. Light grassiness, and a little bit of farmhouse/basement must. Cranberries, yes, I smell that too, fairly low on the "smelling totem pole" but there.
The flavor was sweeter at first and then developed a blend of tart cherry skin to cranberry skin with some grassy sweet effects balancing fairly nice. Slight aftertaste of the cherries, grassiness and a little bit of funk.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionable to sipping quality about it. Carbonation echoed well with this beer. ABV felt on par. Semi-sour to tart cherry flesh to skin sort of finish.
Overall, pretty nice beer, but was it an American wild ale, saison or fruit beer? To me, it's more of an American wild ale or blended fruit beer as there really wasn't much "saison yeast" imparting any of those "saison qualities." Still, I'd want to have it again. It's well executed.

 

Pours a gorgeous pale goldish red copper orange. Musty cherries on the nose. Nice tartness and funk that's restrained, some cherry character and tart cranberries. Finishes dry. Often times, collaborations have a too many cooks in the kitchen feel to them. I am also not the biggest fan of Jester King's assertive native Hill Country mixed culture. This beer has CBC's fingerprints all over it. It is an exemplary showcase of finesse. A very nice drinking sour that doesn't rip your teeth apart.