Portly Abbot
Tuatara Brewing Co.

Format: had a 250mL taster at Beervana 2014.

Appearance: pours a vibrant orange colour with a thin white head. Spritely-looking carbonation across the profile.

Aroma: plenty of spices, heavy malts and apricots. A very full and pleasant aroma.

Taste: picks up even more here - very strong flavours of apricots, sweet biscuit malts, heavy spices and a touch of warming alcohol. Yum!

Aftertaste: a lot of warming alcohol and again those half-sweet, half-tart apricot flavours. The malts and spices are there too. This is a very well put together beer.

Mouth feel: light to moderate with a reasonable amount of spritely carbonation. Pretty decent, and quite clean.

Overall: just when I thought Tuatara wasn't going to make a decent beer, they come up with this. A very nice and well-rounded Belgian strong dark ale - my favourite style and they have done it justice. Nicely done!

Had a 200mL pour of this beer at Volstead last night.
A pretty damn good stab at a style rarely seen this far south. clear light amber color with a minimal head that was bright white. the nose was where this beer really shined, very clear lacto green apple, tart green grape, some hints of must and alcohol, but overall this beer really did hit the basics of the style well. The taste was sadly a little less exciting, with a bright front palate that started to take a overly sweet turn into classic Belgian pale territory, which was not suggested by the nose. The mouthfeel was refreshingly light though and overall this beer was quite good, but it did fall somewhere in a no mans land between a standout sour and a Belgian Strong Pale (the mid palate had a la chouffe quality though not as bright or assertive). Anyways a great experimental beer from the boys at Tuatara and a good starting point for a wider range of sours to come.... Hopefully?