15 Years Cuvée
Oxbow Brewing Company

 

Had on tap. Pours murky orangey brown with a tan head. Honey dipped berries, lacto, barrel funk, bright oak, peach, plum, caramel malt in a watered down way, and floral yeast in the nose. Taste adds even more complexity with apple, dry earth, vanilla to the oak and rustic yeast tones. It has a ton going on, but all together it isn't the smooth integration with this blend. Feel playfully sour and lesser so funky, pretty wet for the style, leans lighter body slightly.

Pours a light fizzy head with lower retention, no lacing, semi hazy semi clear iced-tea brown to tan color

Nose brings plenty of souring bacteria funk, not much barnyard, various tart fruits, especially a berry like fruit, a bit of cheesy funk, mild buttery vanilla oak

Taste brings some malts with the funk, a mild sweet toasty malt character with caramel notes even, more fruity characters with the tart berry like boysenberry and some orchard fruits, plum like, a mild barnyard funk with plenty of acidic souring bacteria, a bit of buttery oak, hint of vanilla, dry finish with a lot of a tart brambleberry and some bready notes, a bit flemmy

Mouth is med bod, mild flemmy with fair overall acidity, med to higher small bubble carb

Overall pretty nice, doesn't go crazy but plenty of the sourness and fruit notes