Cuvee De Notch
Bull & Bush Brewery

 

this is one of the reasons i love this place and love these guys! i roll in to find this, a 2012 barrel aged cherry sour on tap, nobody else does that kind of thing, so cool they keep a beer like this around to break out when the time seems right. advertised on their menu as a cherry lambic, i dont quite think it fits the traditional lambic definition, but it does have a nice pucker to it, tangy and tart with the cherry, which has held up really well. it tastes more lacto than fully wild to me, and while there is a lot of wood on it from the wine barrels, and some tannic elements there, its not particularly funky or bretty in the way old lambic from belgium usually tastes. its unfair to compare apples to oranges through, even if they brought that on themselves calling this lambic, its very tasty and unique beer. the faintest stale grain character to it, dark fruits from the wine and the cherries together, a musty oak profile, and an oddly clean finish, cherry tang and not a lot of grain. this could stand a little more body and carbonation, it didnt feel as lively as the flavors sort of demand, but its not thin either really, just sort of in that middle range thats not up to its full potential. that said, this was a really interesting beer to try, neat that bull and bush was doing something like this before it was really fashionable, and that they kept one around. go in and try some before its gone!