Mr Mistoffelees
Moon Dog Craft Brewery

 

 

 

A: The beer is slightly hazy dark yellow in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a short off white head that has good retention properties and hardly died down.
S: Moderate aromas of sourness are present in the nose.
T: Like the smell, the taste is quite sour and has notes of mangos and passionfruit.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and tart on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is quite sour but you can still pick up some of the flavors of mangos and passionfruit in the smell.

Serving type: bottle

 

It poured a hazy gold color with a small, almost non-existent, white head.
Aroma of sweet fruit and funk.
Taste of mango and passionfruit. Some late citrus. Faint hops.
Lightly tart.
Nice enough beer, probably not meant for a cold late fall day.

 

my first from these guys. a somewhat amatuer tasting wild ale, but featuring mango and passion fruit, dry and bubbly, and quite different from a yeast standpoint, so while i dont love it, it does hold my attention the entire bottle. the fruit is fresh and natural tasting, which is oddly the element i like the most about this. the yeast is stinky, maybe not well adjusted to the long over seas trek, or maybe just too up and down in temperature over that time for it to really be knowable anymore by its creator, quality control must be near impossible in this type of thing, but im not in love with whats here. the brett is there, funky for sure, but musky and wet and sort of decaying too. some sourness, but not a ton of acidity, instead it takes some tartness from the passion fruit and some hay-like funk, rather than an all out sourness, from the wild elements. notes of wine and young compost, underripe cantaloupe, farm waste, and smarties candies. its not bad, but im not loving it either. thanks to the effervescent almost out of control carbonation and the low alcohol, it stays drinkable, but this doesnt inspire a whole lot of stoke. to be fair, i had a lot to drink before this one, but at the same time, it didnt seem as evolved and refined as the better wild stuff happening in the states. always a treat to try something like this from somewhere else though, and it was a fun bottle to drink on overall. cool use of the fruits too!

 

 

 

 

 

Aroma is mangoes, sour fruit and light medicinal. The flavor is mangoes, apricot/stone fruit, malts, citrus and a mix of sour/brett and mild medicinal in the finish.

 

 

 

 

Smell is a hint of mango, cherry cough drop, and general tartness. Taste is heavy stone fruit, light tartness, and not much mango or passionfruit. I pick up a fair amount of acetic acid - not a bad sour but I was expecting more tropical punch.