Brewed By: Destihl Restaurant and Brew Works in Normal/Bloomington, Illinois
Purchased: 500ml (1 pint, .07oz bottle) bought at Bottles & Cans in Chicago, IL; 2015 (bottled in 2014; barrel numbers 271-275)
Purchased: 500ml (1 pint, .07oz bottle) bought at Bottles & Cans in Chicago, IL; 2015 (bottled in 2014; barrel numbers 271-275)
Style/ABV: American Stout/Wild Ale, 9.9%
Reported IBUs: ????
Reported IBUs: ????
More Destihl Sours woo. About Destihl:
Destihl is a brewery (Bloomington) and brewpub (Normal, IL & Champaign, IL) based out of the Midwest. Specifically, the middle of Illinois in the middle of the United States. Daaaa midwest. The brewery was founded by CEO & Brewmaster, Matt Potts, in 2007. Like many brewery founders, Potts started out as a homebrewer, and would eventually trade his law school education and law practice for those sweet barley suds. Destihl currently brews a myriad of regular and barrel-aged beers, including an increasing portfolio of tasty sour brews. For more info, check out their website.
The Destihl Saint Dekkera: Zura Dubbele Sour Stout is a sour double stout, aged in oak barrels. And that's all she wrote.
This pours into a dark brown, cola color, kicking up two fingers of tan tinged head. There is nice lacing, and even some decent head retention. It's not opaque or pitch black, and I wouldn't expect it since it was aged in a barrel(s) for some time.
The aroma on this beer is awesome. I'm really surprised that Destihl has cranked something of this quality out, and it does justify the price. Their Wild Sour series is fun, but doesn't compare to the extent or complexity of a beer like this. This has an aroma of rich oak, leather, tons of acetic acid, red cider vinegar, and tons of oak-cherries and cherry cola. There is also an underlying coffee and chocolate note, and a fat malt base creeping.
This tastes delicious, like a blend of a Stout with a Flanders Red. It's very different than something like the Black Metal. There's a lot of chocolate and coffee in here, but it keeps rounding back out to big oak flavor, cherries, acetic acid and apple cider vinegar. There's a ton of shades of fruit in here, and the oak and barrel are a big character in the beer...which is what you want. Yum.
This is riding the line between medium and full-bodied. It certainly approaches a fuller feel as it warms up. Palate depth is awesome, and this has great duration and depth. I feel like the complexity leans towards the barrel and acetic acid notes a bit, but when I was sharing this with my girlfriend, she easily identified "coffee" in the taste. It's an impressive beer, and it feels and tastes like a beer that has been aged for a while in barrels. It's just an impressive package and experience. I get a lot of acetic acid, cherries, barrel, and sourness up front; that melds into these really rich chocolate and coffee notes, with some oak and barrel coming along for the ride; the back end fuses the chocolate, coffee, cherries, oak, and barrel...it's quite harmonious and actually really tasty.
This pours into a dark brown, cola color, kicking up two fingers of tan tinged head. There is nice lacing, and even some decent head retention. It's not opaque or pitch black, and I wouldn't expect it since it was aged in a barrel(s) for some time.
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| Destihl Saint Dekkera: Zura Dubbele Sour Stout |
The aroma on this beer is awesome. I'm really surprised that Destihl has cranked something of this quality out, and it does justify the price. Their Wild Sour series is fun, but doesn't compare to the extent or complexity of a beer like this. This has an aroma of rich oak, leather, tons of acetic acid, red cider vinegar, and tons of oak-cherries and cherry cola. There is also an underlying coffee and chocolate note, and a fat malt base creeping.
This tastes delicious, like a blend of a Stout with a Flanders Red. It's very different than something like the Black Metal. There's a lot of chocolate and coffee in here, but it keeps rounding back out to big oak flavor, cherries, acetic acid and apple cider vinegar. There's a ton of shades of fruit in here, and the oak and barrel are a big character in the beer...which is what you want. Yum.
This is riding the line between medium and full-bodied. It certainly approaches a fuller feel as it warms up. Palate depth is awesome, and this has great duration and depth. I feel like the complexity leans towards the barrel and acetic acid notes a bit, but when I was sharing this with my girlfriend, she easily identified "coffee" in the taste. It's an impressive beer, and it feels and tastes like a beer that has been aged for a while in barrels. It's just an impressive package and experience. I get a lot of acetic acid, cherries, barrel, and sourness up front; that melds into these really rich chocolate and coffee notes, with some oak and barrel coming along for the ride; the back end fuses the chocolate, coffee, cherries, oak, and barrel...it's quite harmonious and actually really tasty.
Rating: Above-Average (4.5/5.0 Untappd)
I'm feeling a Strong Above-Average here. Wow this is a real surprise from the Midwest. This is about as authentic as the barrel-aged/sour experience can get, and this beer melds a fantastic sour/barrel character with this bitching stout base. Just fantastic stuff, all around. I am truly impressed.
Random Thought: Destihl might be yet another sleeper hit in the midwest. Mmmmm.
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