Torchon
Tri-City Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

Poured from a bottle into a small chalice.

The primary taste components are sourness and a rather uninteresting bitterness. No funk and almost no sweetness. The flavor profile lacked any complexity or interest. The body is fairly light.

I generally like this style and frankly was disappointed in this beer. Would probably not have it again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Torchon is pretty bright and very clear, with just a hint of thickness to its pale orange body. Constant carbonation from the bottom of the glass keep up an off-white foam that, while not substantial itself, does leave fairly substantial lacing in the form of rings and patching.
The smell is interesting, somehow both evidencing Belgian yeast and remaining somewhat ambiguous. There's a little bit of sweetness, not much, with a very gentle clove-like spiciness under biscuity malt notes and a hint of grass.
Orange zest is first on the tongue, with a lightly lemony edge moving in at the end, and the evidence of Belgian yeast is more in an earthy note than anything else. It has a somewhat metallic undertone to it, something I noticed strongly in the IPA. Overall, this one doesn't sell me on the brewery, as there's just not much going on here, and even less as the finish ends up with too much grain and corn husk.
The feel is oddly thick and syrupy in such a light body, though there is a nip of crispness managed. It would be smooth, but it ends up clinging stickily and thickly to the roof of the mouth and the tongue. It does finish out a little crisper, and as it sits it doesn't do quite so much coating, as it were.