P.O.G. Tropical Sour
Dead Frog Brewery

Hazy pale gold color. Poured a short head that dropped down to a ring of bubbles in less than a minute. Moderate flow of tiny bubbles from the bottom of the glass. Left no lacing.

Sweet and sour fruit smells with just enough yeast funk to keep it from being a tutti-frutti artificial flavoring. There is some light mineral, a bit like fresh wet concrete or clay. The orange smell becomes quite distinct after a couple of minutes. The more tropical smells remain somewhat anonymous. There is just a hint of pale malt. Swirling the glass kicked up a bit of horse blanket for a couple of seconds. The orange comes through a lot stronger.

Tart with a burst of mixed fruit and pale malt. The fruit is a wide blend, with nothing really popping out. It tastes like a fruit that is a hybrid of the fruits listed on the label. There is a slight conifer tree resin flavor, like a fresh cut pine or spruce tree had been paraded through the brewery. Some mild bitters show up towards the end along with some yeast; these are more like bitters from fruit peels than hops. The aftertaste is a stronger bitter fruit peel. The resin shows up a lot stronger for a few seconds. The fruit fades out leaving mostly mild bitters behind.

Light tongue tingling. Quickly turned into a large bubbled foam. A bit thick and oily. Mildly astringent.

One of the 4 beers in the "Juice Box Sour Mixer". Very interesting fruit sour, but it doesn't really start to taste beer like until it has warmed up quite a bit. The light resin flavor is a good enhancement; any more and it might have started to overwhelm the other flavors. The blend of fruit flavor is odd in that it is really hard to pick out the specific fruits listed. It is more like some fruit that has been hybridized and has lost some of the flavors along the way. My opinion is that this is the best beer out of the pack.