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Cuvée Du Jongleur
Cascade Brewing / Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub
- From:
- Cascade Brewing / Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
Ranked #359 - ABV:
- 8.41%
- Score:
- 92
Ranked #4,473 - Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 9.62%
- Reviews:
- 85
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 09, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 30, 2008
- Wants:
- 221
- Gots:
- 12
"A careful blending of select barrels of Flanders Reds and soured Belgian Triples aged in oak for up to 18 months. Then blended with fresh 25° Plato Blond Quadruppel. Hand-bottled, corked and then aged allowing lactic fermentation. 8.41% ABV" - Raccoon Lodge website
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Rated by SushiSakeBeer from Oregon
4.46/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Another outstanding winner!
Oct 23, 2022Reviewed by Orca from Washington
4.13/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
500mL (2017 vintage) into a tulip. Pours a hazy pinkish amber with pretty much zero head, some lazy carbonation rising from the bottom. Looks like iced tea without the ice.
Aroma is brightly acidic, fruity, a touch floral. Plenty of complexity but dominant characteristic is the sourness.
Taste is a real balancing act between sweet and sour. There’s a fruity quality here that’s countered by lactic acidity. Vinous with plenty of barrel character. Notes of vanilla and light smoke. Rainier cherries. Hides the relatively high ABV masterfully.
Mouthfeel is likewise nicely balanced. Medium body, finishes clean and dry.
Overall a really nice sour from Cascade, drinkable and refreshing.
Jul 22, 2022Aroma is brightly acidic, fruity, a touch floral. Plenty of complexity but dominant characteristic is the sourness.
Taste is a real balancing act between sweet and sour. There’s a fruity quality here that’s countered by lactic acidity. Vinous with plenty of barrel character. Notes of vanilla and light smoke. Rainier cherries. Hides the relatively high ABV masterfully.
Mouthfeel is likewise nicely balanced. Medium body, finishes clean and dry.
Overall a really nice sour from Cascade, drinkable and refreshing.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.15/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
been wanting to try this one for ages, sick to find it on tap, quite a bit stronger in my experience than what is listed here, but there is always variability with this stuff and drinking something new to me from cascade ranks near the top of my beer dreams, so this was cool. especially cool that its 2017 vintage, wow. a little darker than expected, looks the part of the flanders red, clearish but deep mahogany, short lived head on the pour, tons of depth. thi is grain forward to me, dark bread and raisin, but not in a german way, acidic and vinous too of course, dried tart cherry, prune, and raspberry, but a ton of wood and mellowness too despite the ph. some definite belgian character from whatever threads in the blend had that, and it makes this unique as a sour, and the various ages in here seem to all contribute to a pretty dynamic whole. i taste some shoe leather, unlit cigar, maple, raspberry preserves, port wine, and warming booziness. its sharp and not very funky, but its wooden and puckery and smart, well made, uniquely blended too but you could never tell because its all married in like this. i think its so crazy what these guys do, have done, continue to do, their beers always have some level of process interest, packaging interest, and of course flavor interest, and this is another cool one. maybe cooler by itself than in the context of the whole cascade repertoire, but the absolutely slay...
Aug 13, 2021Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.39/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.39/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Cellared bottle. Dark amber brown cloudy body, tan head. Flanders cherry, lacto and oak lead the nose with apple phenols and sour brown malt supporting. Taste is much the same, has hints of balsamic and light barnyard funk to add to the nose elements. Feel is solidly medium bodied and smooth but wow is it sour, pucker up baby! Slightly acidic too, ah cascade at their finest. Really enjoyed this one, think the age brought out some more nuance
Jul 30, 2021Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.29/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.29/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
2017 Vintage
Clear garnet with no head; cranberry, Red Hots, and red wine vinegar nose; red currant tartness, Chinese red pears, underripe strawberries, hits of fresh dates, warm peppery phenols, brown sugar echoes and slight thread of vanilla; lactic sorbet fizz, clean.
4 4.25 4.25 4.25 4.25
Lots to pick apart here. Nose does actually shift if you concentrate - Flanders red tartness here, quad cloves there. Same goes for the flavors, where hunting for, say, tripel esters + phenols brings you to orchard fruit + pepper. But this is besides the point; integration is the name of the game here. It is most obviously like a red, but gets deeper + sweeter as you go. Cascade do this in their sleep, and while it might not be their showiest, it’s possibly their most nuanced.
Excellent Christmas dinner aperitif.
Jan 13, 2020Clear garnet with no head; cranberry, Red Hots, and red wine vinegar nose; red currant tartness, Chinese red pears, underripe strawberries, hits of fresh dates, warm peppery phenols, brown sugar echoes and slight thread of vanilla; lactic sorbet fizz, clean.
4 4.25 4.25 4.25 4.25
Lots to pick apart here. Nose does actually shift if you concentrate - Flanders red tartness here, quad cloves there. Same goes for the flavors, where hunting for, say, tripel esters + phenols brings you to orchard fruit + pepper. But this is besides the point; integration is the name of the game here. It is most obviously like a red, but gets deeper + sweeter as you go. Cascade do this in their sleep, and while it might not be their showiest, it’s possibly their most nuanced.
Excellent Christmas dinner aperitif.
Reviewed by pandamanlives from New York
4.59/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.59/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Appearance: Pours a deep amber red. It's pretty hazy as far as sours go.
Smell: Right off the bat, you're hit with oak and sour cherries to the max. There's some dry red wine notes in there as well. Very jammy and a little boozy.
Taste: Mmmmmm. An intense sour cherry flavor balanced by a pleasing dark maltiness. Lots of acidity, to the point of evoking the taste of lemons. Some hints of green apple in the finish, which is balanced out by a subtle sweetness. Incredibly flavorful overall, and the alcohol is masked well. My friend said it tastes like something she's eaten, but she's not sure what. But she liked it as well (??)
Mouthfeel: Mild-to-medium carbonation. Medium-bodied, somewhat oily, but with a crisp, dry finish. Refreshing!
Overall: Another big winner from Cascade. Would definitely drink again!
Oct 26, 2019Smell: Right off the bat, you're hit with oak and sour cherries to the max. There's some dry red wine notes in there as well. Very jammy and a little boozy.
Taste: Mmmmmm. An intense sour cherry flavor balanced by a pleasing dark maltiness. Lots of acidity, to the point of evoking the taste of lemons. Some hints of green apple in the finish, which is balanced out by a subtle sweetness. Incredibly flavorful overall, and the alcohol is masked well. My friend said it tastes like something she's eaten, but she's not sure what. But she liked it as well (??)
Mouthfeel: Mild-to-medium carbonation. Medium-bodied, somewhat oily, but with a crisp, dry finish. Refreshing!
Overall: Another big winner from Cascade. Would definitely drink again!
Cuvée Du Jongleur from Cascade Brewing / Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub
Beer rating:
92 out of
100 with
149 ratings
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