Sour Brune
Portsmouth Brewery
- From:
- Portsmouth Brewery
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Flanders Oud Bruin
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 16.36%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 13
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 17, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 08, 2008
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Floydster from California
3.38/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
22 ounce bottle acquired in a trade a while back with hoppymeal, thanks again for sending me the wants item Derek, drank tonight from my Maerlant tulip glass, color is a dark red mixed with a soft brown, two inch creamy beige head, some retention retention at first but minimal lacing, aroma conists of tartiness, cherries, vinegar, oak, caramel malts, light toffee, red wine, and grassy accents, flavor starts off with an aggressive sourness, some vinegar and oak in the middle, finish has a good amount of earthiness and lingering sweetness from different malts, tartiness tames a little as it warms but more vinegar comes along with that, sweet vinegar unlike other brews I have experienced in the past where they were overly sour, decent brew but needs more complexity, tart, sour, and full of berries in the mouthfeel, light to medium bodied, moderate to high level of carbonation, taste does not last long, could drink a good amount of this stuff, went down easy at first but gets a little vinegary later on, not overly sour or anything though, only other beer I have had from the brewery that produces the tasty Kate the Great, it was neither a disappointment or a letdown, pretty average and what I was expecting, might drink again, worth trying
Sep 10, 2009
Reviewed by LilBeerDoctor from New York
3.03/5 rDev -20.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -20.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Reviewed on 06/05/2009. Bottle sampled at PPRBSG09. This beer pours brown with a small head. The aroma is largely of sour yogurt. The flavor is also rather yogurty as well as lactic. I don't detect a malt backbone at all. Overall, I really didn't like this one much...
Jul 11, 2009
Reviewed by PEBKAC from North Carolina
4.38/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 3 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.38/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 3 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottle thanks to the Globetrekker BeerWorld. Shared with a couple other Queens natives. :) Poured into my Yards sampling mug.
Oily amber brown color, slice of greasy off-white head.
Smells of musty half-turned wine & full blown, aged vinegar. Curious amount of toffee in the air, some green apple too. Different.
Red wine vinegar on my tongue, faintly metallic, weak grain, but with lots of backup from tasty, pity fruit & soft spoiled wine notes.
Average to decent carbonation. Free-flowing feel. Not intensely sour. Some wooden spoon texture.
I'll take another. :)
Jun 03, 2009Oily amber brown color, slice of greasy off-white head.
Smells of musty half-turned wine & full blown, aged vinegar. Curious amount of toffee in the air, some green apple too. Different.
Red wine vinegar on my tongue, faintly metallic, weak grain, but with lots of backup from tasty, pity fruit & soft spoiled wine notes.
Average to decent carbonation. Free-flowing feel. Not intensely sour. Some wooden spoon texture.
I'll take another. :)
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