 Thanks for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today I'm doing another beer by the brewery out of Placentia, California. This is one of their sours It is the La Rance, which is a sour blonde ale done aged with boys and berries and oak barrels and is 6% alcohol by volume as you can see La Rance I'm not too familiar with boys and berries honestly, but I assume they're probably something pretty similar to like a blackberry So I'm going to be looking for that type of flavor, but we'll see oh Well, I do know that boys and berries have a reddish hue to them So this makes a lot of sense that it looks very red Little purplish maybe just like the label, but uh Yep, as you can see there's some pretty big bubbles along the edges that are coming up Um decent head to it But very nice color very reddish purplish beautiful color Oh, so much tartness like right off the bat that you would assume from a sour blonde from the brewery because That's how they do it. There's a bit of a funky aspect to it Which is probably coming out of the kind of like oaky characteristics, but also just the sourness in general does that a lot Mmm, it's it's very very sour and there's a difference between tartness and sour in my opinion I'll just move that for a second Tartness a lot softer to me sour is very aggressive There's a very aggressive sourness that just kind of goes up my nose I'm getting more of the woody oak characteristics coming out of this as well And it's very fruity as well Kind of similar to like a blackberry smell like I was saying I would assume but let's give it a taste Tingles on the tongue immediately all the sourness pricking up your Taste buds making your mouth water a little bit kind of stinging the edges of your tongue with that sourness Leaving my tongue pretty dry It's like a hit of lemony Excuse me Whoa a little bit went down the windpipe It's a hit of lemony sourness right up front then I get that taste of the boysenberry What I'm assuming is the boysenberry because that's what it's done with like I said not to experience with boysenberries Actually, I don't even know if I've ever had a boysenberry But anyway, so they're getting the flavor of the boysenberry and it kind of ends with a little bit of that funky aspect and Some of the oakie wood characteristic as well kind of rounded out a little bit make it a little less sour on the finish very crisp Yeah, and what I like about the oak aging and this happens with a lot of sours is that you can get that extreme nice Sourness right up front and then it tends to just round it out at the end and make it very soft on the finish Which that's what's happening with this beer. This is a nice beer. I expected you to enjoy it Excuse me expectation met. This is very nice Not at all disappointed by the brewery once again So thank you very much the brewery La Rance quite tasty if you can get a hold of it do so if not go find yourself another awesome beer to try And thank you very much