D’Tango Unchained
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.

D’Tango UnchainedD’Tango Unchained
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From:
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
 
Pennsylvania, United States
Style:
Belgian Dark Ale
Ranked #4
ABV:
9.6%
Score:
89
Ranked #10,517
Avg:
4.01 | pDev: 11.72%
Reviews:
26
Ratings:
100
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 24, 2022
Added:
Mar 27, 2015
Wants:
  15
Gots:
  26
D’Tango Unchained is a Belgian-Style Dark Ale brewed with cherries (AKA Tango), which we then aged in oak barrels with Brettanomyces. The result is a 9.6% ABV deep amber brew with ruby highlights. Aroma has subtle hints of banana, along with tart cherry, soft vanilla and oak. Not overly sweet, tasting yields a nice, tart cherry and lingering malty flavors that finish dry.
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Ratings by DrStiffington:
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Reviewed by DrStiffington from New Jersey

4.49/5  rDev +12%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Excellent beer from Weyerbacher. I don't know if I got to try Tango, but this was right up my alley. Dark red beautiful beer, smelled a bit of fruit and a a little funk. Tasted similar, somewhat fruity and somewhat funky sour but this one just popped. Extremely tasty, almost too drinkable for a big, bretty beer like this one. If it was cheaper I'd buy a few.
Sep 20, 2015
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Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania

4.3/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
D’Tango from Weyerbacher Brewing. Purchased at Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA, at an unknown date for an equally unknown price for a 25.4 oz corked and caged bottle. On room temperature shelf at store, stored at 37 degrees at home for literally years. Reviewed 24/07/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
On neck in blue ink “Packaged 06/15/17”. Served at 54.1 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 58.6 degrees.
Appearance – 4.
First pour – Pale Amber (SRM 9), clear.
Body – Deep Amber (SRM 15), opaque. When rear-lite, clear, and red with a few spots of sediment. 0.8 cm of sediment rests in the bottom of the bottle
Head – Average (Maximum 2.5 cm, aggressive center pour), floral white, fizzy with short retention, receding to a three mm creamy crown fed all around by effervescence, and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 4 – Distinctly cherry with some Brett funk and oak. No hops.
Flavor – 4.75 – Follows the nose. Cherry predominates, oak vanillin and tannic acid follow, with some Brett funk trailing. No hops. No ethanol (9.6 % ABV according to BA, NOT marked on label) aroma or taste. Weak gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Ends slightly bitter and dry.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium, lightly syrupy, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 4.25 If I’d have known how good this would turn out, I’d have purchased a case like I did with the base beer Tango. This is excellent, even better than most of the Belgian Kriek beers I’ve consumed. Fruit fly approved.
Jul 24, 2022
 
Rated: 4.34 by Curt3 from Ohio

Aug 23, 2021
 
Rated: 4 by a77cj7 from South Dakota

Nov 12, 2020
 
Rated: 3.66 by Cuervo_PCB from Florida

Nov 15, 2019
 
Rated: 1.87 by Oh_Dark_Star from Washington

May 03, 2019
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Reviewed by SHODriver from North Carolina

4/5  rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottled 7/16/15

A: Poured into a Duvel tulip to a deep reddish brown topped by a half finger of light tan head which fades quickly to a thin collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing.
S: Smells of slightly sour cherries, funk, and oak with a little leather along with a slight hint of caramel.
T: Taste is tart and cherry forward up front before some slight paint thinner, funk, and leather comes in. Slight caramel and funk continue with a little more acetone. On the swallow there's more paint thinner, cherries, funk, leather, and oak.
M: This beer is on the lighter side of medium in body. Carbonation is fairly effervescent but it is not prickly while the beer has a drying finish.
O: Overall this was a decent beer. It has some nice complexity and flavors but I think that it fits better as a Wild Ale than it odes as a Belgian Strong Dark. It drinks well and is decently balanced. It's worth a try if you like the style.
May 03, 2019
 
Rated: 4.76 by BenHoppy from Michigan

Feb 01, 2019
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Reviewed by bushbeer75 from Michigan

3.55/5  rDev -11.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
25.4 oz brown bottle caged and corked

Weyerbacher D'Tango Unchained has a clear dark amber body with red highlights. A 1-finger light-tan head that dissipated faster than you can write 'dissipated' and left no lacing behind was produced. The aroma is musty, and dominated by tart/sour cherries. The taste is also dominated by tart/sour cherries that linger a long time. The mouth feel is high-medium with a finish that is dry and makes you pucker. Carbonation is lighter than expected.

Overall, if you like cherries and a tart/sour flavor then this ale is for you - not so much for me.
Jan 07, 2019
 
Rated: 4.11 by brauseboof from South Carolina

Dec 25, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania

Dec 09, 2018
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Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts

4.13/5  rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Draft at the brewery
Light fizzy head, no lacing, mostly clear cranberry chestnut ruby color

Nose tart funky Brett, souring notes, plenty of tart cherry with light vanilla, hint of barrel, it has a little candied vanilla banana thing, Belgian phenols

Taste tart cherries, very sour acidic cherry and funk, big buttery oak barrel and vanilla, like vanilla ice cream covered in buttery oak and tart cherries, candy syrup topping, a bit more Belgian phenols and perfumey alcohol, flemmy sticky acidic finish

Mouth is med to heavier bod, decent carb, little booze warmth big acidic bite

Overall interesting fun beer, better than I expected
Sep 02, 2018
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Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey

4.16/5  rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a murky brown. Big sour cherry aroma. Quite tart, very sour, ample cherry flavor. Interesting. Aged 3 years in my cellar.

7/14/18
Bomber dated 7/15/15
4 rating
Jul 15, 2018
 
Rated: 4.13 by WynnO from Florida

Jul 05, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by tdm168 from Pennsylvania

Apr 27, 2018
 
Rated: 3.66 by atone315 from Wisconsin

Apr 16, 2018
 
Rated: 3.96 by NotAlcoholicJustAHobby from Vermont

Mar 23, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by TheBeerdedCharmer from Pennsylvania

Feb 07, 2018
 
Rated: 4.5 by jwat from Pennsylvania

Nov 08, 2017
 
Rated: 4.57 by Shawnadams330 from Ohio

Oct 12, 2017
D’Tango Unchained from Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 89 out of 100 with 100 ratings