Wicked Weed Black Angel Cherry Sour
Cherry Pie! Cherry Pie! Cherry Pie! At 6.6% abv this light and fruity ale is black in color, although your palate would never know it. Black Angel is fermented on the Wicked Wild yeast and then moved into stripped down Four Roses Barrels and aged on tart cherries, sweet cherries and Italian plums. The white oak and roast malt add notes of vanilla and graham-cracker that when blended with the tart sweetness of the fruit bring out this robust cherry pie flavor that is unmistakable. This sour is a beautiful marriage of fruit and beer that always leaves you wishing the glass was full.
3.8
247 reviews
Asheville, United States
Community reviews
On tap at Wicked Weed Funkatorium, pours a deep dark brown / black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out lots of bourbon, with subdued cherries and gentle acidity. Flavour is along the same lines, with a really nice cohesion between bourbon and tart cherries. Oaky and only modestly acidic. Excellent.
It is difficult for me to review beer like this because it reveals the limits of my palate and my experience. Black Angel is such a complete beer. It leaves me wanting nothing. I'm just incapable of describing it. Like everything that matters to me, I can only compare it to music.
On Gov't Mule's very long album Live With A Little Help From Their Friends, there is a cover of Traffic's Sad And Deep As You. This particular cover of this particular song is one of my favorite recordings ever. Mostly for Randall Bramblett's sax solo. This solo is so rich and so full of longing and joy and imperfect love, and pain and loss and red-hot tears, and acceptance, and gratitude, that it makes the song transcendent. It is a moment of purity. It is life, distilled into an unforgettable couple of minutes.
This beer tastes like that sax solo sounds.
On tap at Mon Petit Cafe Stuttgart. Aroma is cherries, plums, red wine. Taste is moderate sour, sweet, lots of cherry and plum jam, sweet red wine, vey nice.
Draft at the brewery. Looks like a stout, tastes like a fruity sour. Lots of tart funk but also some cherries. Very nicely done.
Bottle. Deep ruddy brown body, head a thin tan ring. Tart nose, cherry, vinaigrette, tannic and woody. Tart, woody body, dry-vinous with notes of cherry skin. Very good.
On tap. Nice tart nose, fruity and funky as you would expect from a WW brew. Vanilla and Oak flavors. Dark brown-black with thin chocolate lacing head. Medium body with medium-light carbonation. Starts tart with fruit and sour funk. Bourbon, vanilla, and a coconut-like taste. Complex and smooth finish with. Not bad.
Draft at the source. Dark brown pour with reddish edges and thin tan head. Malt and dark fruit nose. Flavors are also malty with sour cherries and oak. Medium bodied with a smooth, sweet and sour finish. Very nice.
On tap at Wicked Weed Funkatorium in Asheville, NC. Aroma is chocolate, raisins, spiced cherries. Taste is sour cherries with cocoa...vanilla, caramel and bourbon pick up as it warms.
Bottle: Thanks Andrew: 7.2 ABV: Served in a Chouffe glass:
Creamy beige head. Deep and dark, almost black body.
The aroma is very well balanced and nothing of the different aromas that make the big aromas (your nose hit) is doninating or strongly present:subtle red fruit (specially cherries), some earthy tints, wood, light funk, some bourbon, bit like Belgian Oud Bruin...
Flavour is a good balanced tart and (red) fruity piece of art. Fine bourbon tones with some funk, dark fruit, light vinous/vanilla, wild bacteria, wood... Very tasty!
Aftertaste is fine malty, fruity funk, wood, light bourbon tint... Good...
Low carbo, creamy tart mouthfeel, more than just medium bodied.
Very good balanced, lot of stuff happening in both aroma and flavour.
Tasty stuff! Well done!
Bottle shared at Cap Tap. Pours dark brown with an attractive tan head and a treacle aroma. There is a slightly sour dark molasses flavor with a subtle cherry taste. A really nice sour brown.
Blood red brown color with a small, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Vanilla, bourbon, cherries, plums, roast, vinegar, and a sour finish.
Draft at the Mikkeller & Friends, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dark reddish brown color with a small tan head.
Dark cherries, sweetness, liqueur, chocolate and dark malt in the aroma.
The flavor is sourness, tartness, cherries, dark chocolate, red berries and some dryness. Strong flavor.
26.02.2017, tap @ Mikkeller & Friends:
Nice slightly fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish, soda powder, citrus acid, sour cherries, minerals, oak, dark malts, berry skin, cherry stones, grass, hints of mild vinegar. Taste is slightly sour-ish dry, soda powder, sour cherries, minerals, oak, berry skin, cherry stones, grass, hay, dark malts, burnt toast, fruit salt, weeds. Medium bitterness, dry sour-ish mouthfeel. Nice, very easy drinking despite the dry sour-ish mouthfeel.
Shared with ebone1988 and Gus at Gus’ Birthday V1 and The Topaz Turns 100k Spaghettogether. 500 mL bottle, batch 1. The pour is a dark blackish red color with a thin ring of light khaki head that vanishes quickly without any lace. The aroma is good. There is a lovely tart cherry happening with a hint of bourbon and a very robust charred oak. The flavor is just as good. There is a nice tartness, but the robust malts and charred oak really balance out nicely. The mouth feel is lighter and crisp with a soft carbonation and a lingeringly complex tart fruit, sweet charred oak, and lovely robustness that I really like. This is awesome.
Bottle shared with koleminer20 and Gus for Gus’ Birthday Part One and the Topaz Turns 100k Spahettogether. B1. Aroma is black cherry, sugar, sweet, tart, lacto, barrel, lovely. Appearance is dark red/black, light brown head, opaque. Taste is robust, dark fruit, black cherry, tart, not nearly as sour as expected, barrel, good. Mouthfeel is light to medium body, light crisp carbonation, black cherry and wood aftertaste. Overall, it’s quite nice.
smells like vanilla and berries. black appearance. small head. smells more like a flemish red than a standard american sour. sweet. just hurts the tongue. acid bomb with cherry, melons, oaky
Bottle. Dark mahogany with a thin cola head. Tasty dry cherry, some buttery from bourbon, vanilla, somewhat roasted maltiness, pomegranate, red vinegar, moderate carbonation and body, smooth, somewhat dry on finish with sour cherries.
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is toffee, caramel, cherry, wood, taste is dry, wood, chewy, light cherry, very little funk.
Bottle shared at my house a while back. Poured a Tootsie Roll brown under a light beige head. Aroma is sour, tart dark cherry, lemon, strong acidity. Flavor is the same with some dark toast. Medium body with light carbonation.
Brownish black color with a white head. Aroma is freshly picked cherries, bourbon, and chocolate. The flavor is slightly sour but also malty. Chocolate covered cherries and bourbon. None of the flavors overdone. Well balanced and tasty.
Bottle. Pours a brownish color. Aroma and taste are tart cherries, oak, and some bourbon.
Pours dark and has strong cherry aroma and taste. Flavors are dominated by the dark cherry.
From tap. Pours dark brown with a smlll tan head. Aroma is fruity. Toasted. Crisp hopppy. Smooth fruity. Dry, bitter and smooth fruity finish.
Great sampler from the Funkatorium. 6oz pours? 7oz pours? The darkest of the group. Barrel leads. Big cherry, but that is still second behind the barreling. Very nice! 15.3
Tap@Himmeriget, Copenhagen - dark red black pour with beige head. Sour cherry fruity, cheerystone, berry fruits, tart on the palate, berryskin, medium acidic, cheery laden tart fruity finish.
Bottle: Poured a dark reddish color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of ground cherry with some tart notes is pretty enticing. Taste is also a mix of ground cherry notes with some tart and sour notes and light oak notes are also perceptible. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Great beer with good balance between all the flavours.
09-JUL-2016, draft @Himmeriget, with Sonni.
Black with a lasting tan head.
Aroma is cherry and faint Bourbon.
Taste the same with red wine, Wood, and a slight roast. But the roast is never too much as in most Black sours I have tried. Tart with a long tart finish. Very nice.
500 ml. bottle. Pours a dark ruby brown with a decent beige head. Aroma of tart fruit, wood, and vanilla. Taste is tart cherry, vanilla, oak, funk, and some bourbon. Very nice.
Draft. A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, cherries, wood, and fruits. The flavor is lemons, hops, cherries, and wood, leading to a tart finish.
A deep dark ale with a thin brown head. In aroma, nice tart dark berries with light Brett, light lactic notes, ground cherries, black berry notes, very nice. In mouth, a nice tart ale with Epsom salts, light Brett, ground cherries, lactic acid, light lemony character, nice and complex. Bottle at Matt’s.