Fruitsicle - Peach Pineapple Cranberry
Odd Side Ales

 

 

Again a great fruited ale could really taste the peach pineapple and cranberry but not enough to really make me think it's a wild ale the body just isn't rounded or sour enough. To me these are excellent creme ales but very balanced fruited ones.

 

12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned in 7/2018. Pours moderate hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big juicy/lightly tart/tangy peach, pineapple, cranberry, fruit skin, lemon, pear, red/green apple, melon, white grape, hay, grass, vanilla, cream, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light lacto/Brett funk, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/light acidic yeast, fruit, lactose, and pale/wheat malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big juicy/lightly tart/tangy peach, pineapple, cranberry, fruit skin, lemon, pear, red/green apple, melon, white grape, hay, grass, vanilla, cream, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light lacto/Brett funk, and yeast earthiness. Mild fruity/lactic tartness and fruit tang on the finish. Lingering notes of juicy peach, pineapple, cranberry, fruit skin, lemon, pear, red/green apple, melon, white grape, hay, grass, vanilla, cream, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light lacto/Brett funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/light acidic yeast, fruit, lactose, and pale/wheat malt flavors; with a nice malt/tartness and tangy fruit balance; and zero cloying/puckering flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering tartness/tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/grainy, and lightly acidic/tangy mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a delicious fruited milkshake sour! All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/light acidic yeast, fruit, lactose, and pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth and refreshing to drink with the very mildly acidic/tangy finish. Very flavorful for the low ABV. Nicely juicy fruits, balanced milkshake-like sweetness; and solid Brett/lacto complexity. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example as expected. Consistently impressive session sours across all variations so far.

 

 

A - Pours a hazy golden orange with a two finger creamy white head.

S - Aroma is unripe peach, white grape and cranberry.

T - The taste pineapple, peach, light tart cranberry and light bready malts.

M - Light body with medium/high carbonation. Soft mouthfeel with a crisp dry finish.

O - Easy drinking light fruited sour.

Pours gold. Foamy, short white head that Fades fast.

Smells pineapple, Peach and white tart fruit.

Taste slightly tart pineapple, Peach, bready and light Funk. Finishes dry with a light Funk and tart fruit linger. Medium body and fizzy medium carbonation.

Continuing to dip their toes in the tart end of the pool, Odd Side Ales now employ the power of peaches, cranberries and pineapple to a moderately sour base ale for a taste that's tropical, succulent and playfully acidic.

Pale gold and laced with a firm haze, the frothy ale leads with a tangy, tart and tantalizing perfume that's bright with those tropical, orchard fruit and berry-like scents. Moderate malt sweetness carries onto the front of the tongue like pastry, cobbler and taffy.

As the sweetness slowly dissipates, the beer continues to grow with those generous fruit additions across the middle palate. Pineapple and peach flavors bring aspects of orange, apricot and mango along with a complementary peach and berry acidity linking up with the white wine, gooseberry and cider character of the underlying ale. A light balsa woodsiness comes in late as the ale turns to a tart and refreshing late palate.

Medium bodied but lightened from the mild mannered profile of the fruit, the fruitcentric ale trends tart, spicy with fruit skins and zesty through a medium length aftertaste.