750 mL bottle. Part of the Ancient Ales series.

Cranberry, ligonberry, honey, birch syrup and herbs.

A reddish hue to the copper colored body, and a lovely, medium bodied off-white head that has decent retention.

A lot of clean fruit on the nose.

Tastes are sharp and clean, with a nice touch of acidity balanced very nicely with some sweetness. A nice sweet and sour (no not that kind of sour) affair. The alcohol at 10% is largely almost completely absent up front. It finishes with a little warmth, but it’s nice.

There is almost (but not quite) a Old Bruin/Flanders Red element here – I’m NOT saying this is a Goudenband clone, but I am saying that here is something in the mix that is reminiscent.

Restained, mixed fruitiness is the watchword here. Mouthfeel is rich enough to give a presence and light enough to make this beer very quaffable. A little, very slight bitterness in the lingering finish.

Interesting and fruity, but I’d like to do a side by side with Red & White and Black and Blue, Fort and some others to see what I was getting here that I had not had before.

Fruit continues quite strongly, and this is a HIGHLY drinkable beer considering the ABV – alarming so, and in that respect it remind me a LOT of Fort.

Good looking beer, tasty beer, drinkable beer but a tad pricey for me – shame.

Bottled 10/11/2013