Cascade Sang Royal - Cascade Brewing / Raccoon Lodge & Brewpub

kscaldef

Oregon

3.78/5  rDev -14.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

2011 Vintage at the Barrel Room

A: small tan head with an edge of grey rapidly dissipates to a ring of medium bubbles. Murky red color.

S: Port and cherry aromas are detectable from a distance. Lactic tang, a bit of apple. A little bit of wood. Some whiffs of funk when swirling. Wish the Barrel House served their beers in glasses better suited to assessing aroma.

T: Woody and earthy, lots of lactic. Hard to pick out specifics, but there's lots of dark fruit and some wine notes.

M: Well carbonated, medium body. Good linger. Some mild astringency.

O: Rich, complex and tasty, although the flavors sort of blur together making it hard to pick out the details. Quite enjoyable, though.

Serving type: on-tap

05-12-2011 20:42:47 | More by kscaldef

heavenlyStash

California

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

05-24-2013 07:13:05 | More by heavenlyStash

bobv

Vermont

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

05-23-2013 19:35:34 | More by bobv

MarkIntihar

Michigan

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

05-22-2013 13:41:07 | More by MarkIntihar

ajs4bd

Missouri

4/5  rDev -9.7%

05-20-2013 03:50:06 | More by ajs4bd

Auror

Massachusetts

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

05-16-2013 13:49:34 | More by Auror

deekyn

California

4/5  rDev -9.7%

05-16-2013 04:11:50 | More by deekyn

illy0sis

Texas

5/5  rDev +12.9%

05-14-2013 22:24:26 | More by illy0sis

thecheapies

Pennsylvania

4.46/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.75

2009 Project. Without further ado, I bring you Cascade Sang Royal.

Prying the cork out was a serious bitch. Pours exceptionally dark for a wild ale. Deep burgundy red-brown with a collared ring of beige foam. Man, can I get started with the aroma? Because, the sour whiff is just carrying off of this one.

A big oaky and sour aroma on this one. All sorts of refermented wine barrel drudge and bad grapes and wild yeasts. Brightly sour nose with lots of evident aromatic tannins, some acetic qualities, and a wild mushroom-y funk. Hints of blue cheese. Some twisted citrus with notes of unripe lemon, clump hay, tart raspberry, some leather, blackberry, red currant, and light tobacco. The malts aren't completely shot, either. As it warms, I get hints of contorted grains.

Oak, sour grapes, sour raspberries, acetic sour, tart currant, vinous notes, unripe lemon, mushroom, blackberry, pomegranate seed, rhubarb, blue cheese, tobacco leaf, and finishing alcohol. Super complex, just like the nose. I can't get over the journey that this beer takes me on. Has all of the satisfying vinegary sweetness of a real-deal Flemish Red with that smacking tartness and funky bliss of an American Wild Ale. So wine-like and almost savory in a way that it brings out the umami behind the tartness. Lots of tannins support the sour with mouth-drying bitterness; the only kind of bitterness that a beer of this style should offer. Weighty body masks its heaviness. After all these years, the carbonation still gives it a little pop--just like the pop the cork gave when I finally forced it free.

An excellent wild ale from one of the most impressive small-time breweries that I've come across. Lovin' Cascade from all the way out in Pittsburgh, PA. Somebody get in touch with me about a Kriek. I'm sold on these guys.

Serving type: bottle

05-12-2013 04:22:19 | More by thecheapies

Dreadnaught33

District of Columbia

4.28/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Bottle shared thanks to raveskdr thanks Chris! 2009 vintage.

The look is great, it has a blueberry sort of dark purple look to the body with a ring of off white head, very inticing look.

The smell is nice, it has a very good dark fruit smell to it with a good tartness and certain Cabernet wine aroma as well. The oak makes a mark in the beer too, overall it is very deep and rounded off.

The taste leads with the signature sour cascade yeast hitting right away, with cocoa powder, red grapes, plums, other berry flavors, and some woody pulpy barrel tastes as well. A little flavor killing in the aftertaste rush of sour sort of nearly plastic flavor kills a little of the complexity you preview at the start of the taste.

The feel is nice and vinegary in its sour flavor and feel. Not a whole lot of carbonation and definite berry seed pucker.

Overall a nice beer, easy drinking for how sour it is, held up really nicely in a red wine kind of way, round and tangy!

Serving type: bottle

05-11-2013 01:07:05 | More by Dreadnaught33

ncstateplaya

North Carolina

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

05-08-2013 13:39:03 | More by ncstateplaya

cadaugherty

Illinois

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

05-07-2013 23:49:14 | More by cadaugherty

Pete27lax

New York

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

05-02-2013 17:33:00 | More by Pete27lax

weonfire

Kentucky

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

04-29-2013 01:52:22 | More by weonfire

YaKnowBrady

New Jersey

4.25/5  rDev -4.1%

04-22-2013 15:07:20 | More by YaKnowBrady

cfrances33

Illinois

4.25/5  rDev -4.1%

04-15-2013 04:52:55 | More by cfrances33

Prospero

Colorado

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

04-12-2013 17:12:06 | More by Prospero

HattedClassic

Virginia

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

04-08-2013 02:25:32 | More by HattedClassic

Anonymous1

Illinois

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

04-05-2013 15:17:18 | More by Anonymous1

rumorsofsurf

Pennsylvania

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

04-05-2013 02:00:16 | More by rumorsofsurf

SourinQns

New York

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

04-04-2013 03:09:18 | More by SourinQns

UNCCTDawg

North Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +1.6%

03-31-2013 14:43:18 | More by UNCCTDawg

resistdefy

District of Columbia

4.75/5  rDev +7.2%

03-31-2013 02:50:17 | More by resistdefy

DarthKostrizer

California

3/5  rDev -32.3%

03-29-2013 08:15:05 | More by DarthKostrizer

claytong

Vermont

4.25/5  rDev -4.1%

03-25-2013 23:35:24 | More by claytong