Almost Happy Weekend to everyone.  I figured I’d get at least one more review in before it started. 

I picked up this beer a long time ago.  It’s been sitting in my fridge, sitting up front, begging me to just give it a try.  Finally last night I did.  Now I’m sad.  Why?  Because the beer is friggin fantastic.  But why be sad?  Well when I bought this beer, the gentlemen who I bought it from said that this beer is going the way of the Dodo bird.  Never to been seen again and that this is the last batch they will ever make.  At that time I didn’t care.  It was just another beer that I threw in my basket and moved on.  But now that I tried this beer, I wish I had a fridge full of it.  This brew just hit the spot for me.  It’s a sour beer, a style of beer people have to be get used to, but this beer might be one of the more perfect mixtures of sour but just not to sour.  It’s easily sessionable and just wowed me after every sip.  I just wish I had more.

This one poured a brownish red color.  When held up to the light you can see ruby red highlights.  A two finger head first appeared but quickly, like it just stole something, it disappeared.  Fizzed away into a small lacing. 

The aroma of this beer started off just like I thought it would.  The acidic and tart vinegar.  A smell like this used to scare me away but these days I welcome it.  You gotta learn to love it =)  Mixed in their was ripe cherries.  The vinegar was up front though. 

The taste is why this beer is just world class to me.  The vinegar takes a bad seat here.  Still very noticeable but the cherries come in and it gives a rich, sweet flavor.  Earthiness, oak, and a little bit of funk add in with the cherries and cut through the acid like taste.  The mixture of the cherries and the woody oak flavors just took over for me.  Maybe it was the little bit of age I put on the beer, I don’t know but every sip was just better then the one before it. 

Mouthfeel is medium bodied and a little syrupy.  Of course there is a slight acidic feel to it and it leaves a nice tartness sitting on your tongue when you’re done.

It’s sad to see this beer gone.  I hope it’s still around or at least I hope I can find some laying around somethere.  Instead of just throwing one in my basket, I’ll be throwing as many as I can find in my basket.  A great low abv sour/fruit and vegetable beer that I could drink over and over again.

Found: Grape and Gourmet, Virginia Beach, VA
Price: 7 dollars a bottle
Website: http://www.liefmans.be/
What the company says: I didn’t see this particular beer on their site.
ABV%: 6.00%
Other beers to try from this brewery: First beer I’ve had from these guys
Other beers to try within the same style:New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red, Founders Cerise
Rating: A