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D’Tango Unchained
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
- 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:
- 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:
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
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, 2015More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
4.3/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
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, 2022On 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.
Reviewed by SHODriver from North Carolina
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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, 2019A: 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.
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
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, 2019Weyerbacher 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.
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
4.13/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
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, 2018Light 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
Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.16/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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, 20187/14/18
Bomber dated 7/15/15
4 rating
D’Tango Unchained from Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
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100 with
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