Canes Of Judas
Cathedral Square Brewery

 

 

 

 

 

On draft. Poured out a dark red color with a small, khaki-colored head of foam. It smelled of sweet raspberry with tart notes. Strong raspberry taste with a tart bite and malty finish.

Pours a rusty, reddish, dirty brown color. Mostly opaque. Huge dark tan colored head is dense and frothy. Head lingers for a long time. Solid creamy wall of lacing left behind after the head finally vanishes.

Aroma is raspberries and vinegar. Vanilla, lacto, and oak. Sour apple and wet straw. Citrus. Caramel malt. Vinegar really recedes as the beer warms.

Taste is berry, oak, and vanilla. Raspberry and cherry. Caramel malt, green apple, raisins, and lemon. Something vegetal and unpleasant, almost rotten, at the very beginning when it is chilled. Disappears as it warms. Just warming from fridge temp to cellar temp has it completely gone. Licorice, straw, lacto, and hints of vinegar.

Medium body with a creamy mouth feel. Medium+ maybe even highish carbonation. Tart on the tongue but not truly sour or mouth puckering. Berry and barrel flavors linger.

A really nice beer. I was prepared to slam this beer off the initial aroma and taste when the beer was just out of the fridge. Just a few degrees of warming made a difference unlike anything I've ever experienced. Great berry flavor and the barrel notes really shine. LET THIS BEER WARM TO AT LEAST CELLAR TEMP BEFORE DRINKING.