Deschutes The Dissident 2010
From Deschutes – Eighteen months in isolation, The Dissident is a distinctive Flanders-style brown ale, with a fruity aroma and flavor. Our only wild yeast beer, brettanomyces and lactobacillus impart its characteristic sour taste. Lavished with whole western Washington cherries – pits, stems and all – (which, by the way, our brewmaster picks out personally during family vacations, to the tune of much eye-rolling from his children). It’s our wildest, most expensively pampered beer.
Deschutes Brewery – Deschutes The Dissident 2010 Reserve – 22 oz. bottle poured into a goblet. 10% abv.
Appearance: Pours a deep auburn with a fluffy beige head that subsides to nothing within minutes of entering the glass.
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Aroma: Tart cherry, pie filling and light chlorine.
Taste: Bitter fruit pit (cherry or peach), funky vinegar and tart cherry.
Mouthfeel: Juicy, puckering with modest levels of carbonation.
Overall: Really good,not very sour, but decent levels of funk, and very tasty. The bottle suggests not opening this for an entire year. I couldn’t wait.
