Palate Trip Sour IPA
8 Wired Brewing Co.

15-01-2018. Clear, light orange, with high carbonation and bright white foam. Smells tart, refreshing, and a bit fruity, almost floral. Taste is as expected lightly sour, a bit floral with some peach fruityness and sweetness present. Very light and refreshing, but nothing outstanding.

 

 

 

Can from Market of Choice. A date in September 2020 is stamped on the bottom, so maybe this is 6 months old?

A mildly hazy orange with a dense white head with excellent retention and lacing, this looks great. The nose is quite excellent. Prominently lactic with a noticeable yogurt like tartness but amplified, along with a large citrusy and bright orange and tangelo note. The package opens sour with a prominent lactic acid along with some amount of yogurt before a juicy hop character appears. Juicy and citrusy, bright and tasty, there's orange, mandarin and tangelo. Sour on the finish with a lingering yogurt like tartness, this beef is light in body, moderately carbonated and feels excellent on the palate. Excellent stuff.

 

 

14.9 FL OZ can
Served in an oversized wine glass

This beer pours a hazy amber color with golden highlights. It is topped with a mountain of off white head that receded quickly.

The aroma is tart candy and citrus.

The taste is mild citrus with light tartness through the middle. The finish is clean and dry.

Light bodied and effervescent

It gets more flavor as it warms. It's a solid beer. I would drink another.

 

 

 

 

 

Day 9 of the Advent calendar, and we've hit our first (only?) sour beer.
Not my favorite style, by any means, but this proved that it can be quite drinkable.
The color was pale and slightly cloudy, nothing special to look at. Good head.
The flavor, naturally, was sour. Sort-of tart apples sour. Not too sour, though, which made it a good pairing for my porkchops at dinner.
Surprising. But nothing that I'd want six of.

 

330ml bottle, day 9 of the 2017 Craft BeerAdvent Calendar. As the name sez, a soured IPA, but they don't mention how.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly chalky white head, which leaves a broad array of paramecia profile lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some hard water flintiness, muddled domestic citrus rind, subtle sour lactic notes, and further leafy, grassy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, spoiled milk, wet stones, a hint of innocuous funk, and more weedy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and actually fairly smooth, as neither the hops nor the acidity take things overboard here. It finishes trending dry, the malt graininess, mixed hops, and milky sourness all playing nicely with each other.

Overall - this is one rather enjoyable and easy to put back sub-version of the style (or blend of styles, whatever), with each side of the equation represented more or less equally. Fruity, tart, and just a tad bitter, a brew that can satisfy both hopheads and sourheads.

 

Hitting two different groupings of tastebuds at the same time does a really nice job of freaking out the palate. A tale of two beers seem to battle for attention in one sip and then work in harmony the next. Complexity or complicated? Part IPA and part sour ale takes the tastebuds on quite a palate trip.

And the beer by the same name, 8 Wired's Palate Trip sour IPA pours with a pale golden color and cast in a faint hazy glow. Citrus and acidity tease the nose simultaneously while a drift of cellar funk, grass and herb play delicately behind. The taste of sweet saltwater taffy, sourdough and hard citrus candy hit the tongue briefly before the malts quickly break apart.

Sweetness lessens on the middle palate and the brightness of citrus takes hold. Lemon, grapefruit and slightly under ripened oranges dabble on the tastebuds before a bright and acidic palate then ensues. Sour with crabapple, gooseberry, white grape, french cider and lime, a quick wash of the palate trends clean and crisp. But then a bitter finish of juniper, pine, fresh grass clippings, geranium and chive grip the gullet tightly with a moderately resinous embrace.

Light in body, the drying aspects of both the IPA and the sour ale means that any malty remnants don't have a chance to compete on the finish. Sourness and bitterness battle until the end, seemingly sour in one taste and then bitter in the next. It's a palate trip for sure- but one that's comfortably exciting and it has be be great with herb encrusted, bakes oysters.