The Great Experiment Volume 5: Respect
Barrier Brewing Company

If you have been keeping track of my reviews (& ratings) in the past week or so, you may remember that I am looking to close out the "Better Together" badge on sister site, Untappd. That one awards you one level per every five (5) collaboration beers that you check into. I went on a Barrier spree, purging the backlog here at Chez Woody while furthering the cause of The CANQuest (tm) at the same time. I thought that I had exhausted my stash of Barrier CANs so I moved on to Interboro. That was CANother successful endeavor & in the interim, I received notice from my local, in-person trader @tone77 that he would like to come by for a pick-up/drop-off & so I beCAN to scour to ensure that everything that I have for him is set to go. Lo and behold, this CAN Pop!ped up! And look at the first CANlaborator listed! Perfect.

From the CAN: "India Pale Ale"; "Brewed with our friends Interboro Sprits & Ales[,] Brewski Micro Brewery[,] KCBC Kings County Brewers Collective"; "Paste Four of Ten Here"; "Five of Ten"; "Illustrated by Daniel F. Birch".

I beCAN by Crack!ing open the vent & starting a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. Once this proved to be fruitless in terms of creating any clarity, I allowed it to simply free-flow. This effort netted me two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, eggshell-white head with very good retention. Color was a murky, turbid Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose was redolent with peaches! Peaches are my third favorite fruit & my favorite lunchtime snack in lieu of a cookie or something else. Yum. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste closely followed the nose with a pronounced peach flavor acCANponied by a light eucalyptus menthol mintiness. Yum! Finish was cool & dry with a lingering peach flavor. Mmm. YMMV.