I like Sour Beers alright- especially the non carbonated varieties known as wine and
vinegar- 2 of my favorites.
Ok that wasn’t nice- some people got mad in my SwissTool review when I said no army
would use a tiny pretty red non locking pocket knife with a corkscrew.
My encounters with sour beers started with Belgian Lambics like Lindemen’s Kriek and
framboise which are fruity, sweet, and lightly tart- then some non fruity lambics that taste
like musky carbonated vinegars way too complicated for Koolaid funnel.
A lot of American breweries now have sours, which are identified either by their higher
prices at beer stores, or being in the hands of bearded dudes who used to love IPAs but
won’t admit it.
Today’s beer is from Ballast Point, which is Inbev Corona Microsoft’s Walmart crown
jewel of microbrew acquisitions.
The beer is called the Sour Wench which is a Blackberry Ale with a sexy skeleton on the
front that apparently a room full of beaded microbrew dudes want to bone.
I’m sorry.
The websites liner notes read Our Sour Wench Blackberry Ale is a fruity Berliner Weisse-style
beer bursting with Oregon blackberry flavor and aroma.
Not to be confused with Washington Blackberrys which taste like rotten dick.
The fruit addition adds a beautiful violet hue- we swear it’s not food coloring, and
the taste has an approachable soft tartness from patented porcelain kettle souring.
This artful gypsy will surely lure you into the world of sour beers, and necrophilia.
Let’s pour.
Since I’m a beer expert I can tell by looking at it that it’s 7% alcohol by volume, with
10 bitterness IBUs, and has one at least 1 award- maybe from the skeleton.
It pours a purplish red, kinda like wine but more purple.
It’s slightly opaque, I wouldn’t say cloudy and there seemed to be a tiny bit of silt
floating.
Err bone dust.
The head lingers a coupla minutes, and the bubbles aren’t creamy but a medium density
like fancier Budweiser.
The smell.
Like jelly.
You know the cheap berry jelly you find at resturaunts…
like that.
A few grapes, some raspberries and whatever the hell the lumpy dark thing is- we found
it on the floor.
Throw it in the jelly machine boys.
So Mixed berry.
Shit there may even be a strawberry in there too, who knows.
A little bit of a wine smell, not enough to be an asshole about it though.
You remember warheads right?
From third grade- imagine if they made a beer out of it.
That’s kinda how it tastes.
It’s tart.
If the range is delightfully sour like a Lindeman’s to something that’s been sitting on the
shelf for a while at thirty bucks that sorta tastes like the ball sweat of a bridge troll-
it’s more like the Lindemans but not really sweet- other than the smell.
It’s hard to tell if it’s more raspberries or blackberries… but let’s go with blackberries
but the ones that aren’t ripe yet.
The finish is sort of like a mildly dry red wine, that sits in the middle of your tongue
with some bitterness too.
All in all I like it.
I’ve had more sour beers, and this is kind of on the edge of I’ll drink it because
I enjoy it- versus I’m only drinking it because I paid $20 for the fucking bottle.
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