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5 Stones Artisan Brewery

another wonderful beer from this guys, this is a bottle we picked up at the brewery in february and only recently got into. i love the art on these, the religious stuff feels authentic, unforced, and somehow cooler than church ever really felt, they have done a good job staying true to themselves with the branding but also having a wider appeal to the secular folks. this is a rad little wild beer, aged on oak, and done with cherries. its almost blood red, nice color saturation on it, and even though the head is small and short lived, the beer looks pretty and active enough to be sexy. the aroma is tangy cherry well before any yeast or oak elements, and even though we had this late night after a range of other beers, the authenticity of the fruit really stood out, cherry through and through, with a cool mix of pie cherry sweet and tart cherry tang, its got an almost soda thing going on with the sweetness there too, and i dont get much from the malt here. the yeast is rad though, saison-esque at first to me, then bretty, but still kind of new. interesting its so dry in the taste, not at all as sugary as it seems with all the fruit, and some nice funk on the back end, peppy and quite rustic tasting, well refined as it is. the oak adds some tannins that are cool with the cherry, a light vanilla note that gives it a hint of a state fair dessert or something, and then finally some sourness to clean off the palate and pucker me up a little bit. really cool evolution of flavors here, yeast and fruit working together expertly well, and just a beer i want to keep drinking. glad we picked this one up and saved it for a special occasion. i could not be more impressed with 5 stones overall so far!

Moved from my beer cooler to the fridge about 30 minutes before opening. Walk-in temp is about 47 degrees this time of year. I'll assume the beer to be about 45 degrees when opened.
This beer pours a nice reddish color with little to no head.
The nose is cherries and perhaps a little bit of funk.
The taste is cherries and not as tart as I expected from this type of beer. I am assuming this was supposed to be a sour type rustic ale.
The mouthfeel is smooth very little carbonation in this bottle.
Overall I enjoyed this beer very good cherry flavor not as tart I like my cherry beers. I'd like to try another bottle of this beer to see if it has the same flavor and mouthfeel.

Picked up at brewery along with some other items. No receipt. Reviewed 1/28/19.
Undated. In reefer at brewery. Stored at 42 degrees and served at 42 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Took awhile to open in order to control the carbonation. (Bottle conditioned)
Appearance – 4.
Body – Garnet, hazily opaque.
Head – Large (Maximum six cm, controlled center pour), pink, low density, short duration, diminishing to an irregular three to five mm lacy ring and a thin rocky layer.
Lacing – Better than expected – a serpentigious partial ring of mostly tiny to small bubbles.
First pour – Pink, hazy, looks like unfiltered cranberry juice.
Aroma – 3.5 - Cherry, but weak.
Flavor – 4 – Begins with cherry and ends with just a hint of tannic acid. No alcohol (6% ABV), no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium, watery, soft carbonation.
Impression and interpretation – 4 – You can actually smell and taste the cherries! One of the best non-Belgian cherry beers I’ve had.