I've had a golden sour aged on cherries by Holy Goat fairly recently aswell as a few Flanders Red style brews and this time it's both together, a Flanders style aged on cherries. Should be complex and beautiful. Murky coloured initially but becomes ruby coloured when backlit. Very frothy head from average fast pour and even has half a centimeter of head left behind thereafter. Redfruit sour on the nose, unsurprisingly, but it's not simply cherry, it more like raspberry, redcurrant and strawberry. Turns out this brew is made from two base sours, one aged for 4 months and the other of which spent a year in red wine barrels, the latter has imparted it's influence explicitly despite only being a 20% portion of the overall brew. The two aged base sours came together to age again on danish cherries used for 'Holy Mountain' that I've had recently. This year long red wine barrel aging really does give this brew finesse and depth and it's portion being low only serves to keep it's influence unobtrusive, as cherry is supposed the star of the show. Nicely sour and only a small amount of balsamic vinegar to begin with, but it does accumulate with each sip. It's delightful really, juicy with cherry, not obnoxious and delicate with the red wine angle. Holy Goat have done this red wine jobby before and resulted in excellence, I believe it was the Pastore Collab in which they used pinot noir skins. This Crimson Blade is in a similar vain, though being only barrel aging and not actual grape skin makes it's more subtle. It's not as close to a Flanders Red as other brews they've made but I think it's to this brew benefit as it's like salt and vinegar and more light juice +wine. It's also easier to drink, overall it's quite light indeed even with 7.5% ABV, which you get not a hint of. This is the Burgundy or Beaujolais of sours.

Smooth sour cherry taste and aroma, an excellent beer