Savage Oak - Sinister
Imperial Oak Brewing

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From:
Imperial Oak Brewing
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
Belgian Quadrupel (Quad)
ABV:
11%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
4.24 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Apr 09, 2020
Added:
Mar 13, 2020
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The Savage Oak version of Sinister Minister is aged for 2 years in fresh Cabernet Sauvignon barrels with our blend of bacteria, brettanomyces, and tart cherry juice. Adding the cherry to the barrel allows the simple sugar to ferment keeping the beer from becoming too sweet. The wine barrels, bacteria, wild yeast, and cherry combine with the base quad to create a complex beer with sour, pie cherry up front, followed by notes of dark fruits, red wine, caramel, toffee, and an earthy funk on the finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by stortore from Illinois

4.24/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
500 ml bottle into a goblet. Released 9/28/19, had 3/12/20.

Pours a dark ruby brown, mostly opaque, with a half inch foamy head and some spotty cling. Aromas of red wine, cherries, caramel, malt, grapes, some vanilla, light oak, light plums. Smells lightly tart and sour. Flavors of cherries, red wine, grapes, malt, some caramel and vanilla, light plums, light oak. There’s a good hit of tartness up front, and a decent amount of sourness throughout. Smooth, a solid medium to full body, appropriately carbonated.

Solid effort. The cherries are excellent in the flavor, the Cabernet barrels really pull this together. A nice level of tart and sour. Very enjoyable.
Apr 09, 2020