Tonight's beer:
Opens ... tart (in the distance, a Klaxon goes whoooop! whooooop! whooooop!): cherries and red wine vinegar, with some deep bready counterpoint. Hints of caramel and toast and vanilla in the distance. Wraps up tartly acidic (and almost dry) into a pretty quick finish.
Thin and highly-carbonated, strongly puckering. Scrubbing tending toward scouring, thin stickiness wrapping up quickly clean. The bottle says this is 9% ABV, and the infection may have raised that some, but all that acid hides it well.
So, this is clearly an infected beer. While it's definitely a failure as the Irish Red Ale the bottle promises, it's almost a success as some sort of Flemish Red or Brown, or some other sort of gently sour beer. Possibly the Irish whiskey barrels mentioned on the label had something growing within that couldn't thrive when the whiskey was in but enjoyed the beer just fine. Or maybe there was some other QC problem. I dunno. While this isn't something I can recommend, it's more drinkable than other infected beers I've encountered (and more to my taste than some intentionally sour beers I've come across, to be honest).
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Opens ... tart (in the distance, a Klaxon goes whoooop! whooooop! whooooop!): cherries and red wine vinegar, with some deep bready counterpoint. Hints of caramel and toast and vanilla in the distance. Wraps up tartly acidic (and almost dry) into a pretty quick finish.
Thin and highly-carbonated, strongly puckering. Scrubbing tending toward scouring, thin stickiness wrapping up quickly clean. The bottle says this is 9% ABV, and the infection may have raised that some, but all that acid hides it well.
So, this is clearly an infected beer. While it's definitely a failure as the Irish Red Ale the bottle promises, it's almost a success as some sort of Flemish Red or Brown, or some other sort of gently sour beer. Possibly the Irish whiskey barrels mentioned on the label had something growing within that couldn't thrive when the whiskey was in but enjoyed the beer just fine. Or maybe there was some other QC problem. I dunno. While this isn't something I can recommend, it's more drinkable than other infected beers I've encountered (and more to my taste than some intentionally sour beers I've come across, to be honest).
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