Hoppy Sour: Azacca
Almanac Beer Co.

 

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Tap @ Brewdog Bristol - Pours cloudy golden with a thin white foamy head. Nice lacing. Medium carbonation. Aroma - Ripe orchard fruits- apples, tropical fruit notes - kiwi. Taste - Sweet, ripe orchard fruits - apples, tropical fruit notes, crisp tart finish. Nice well hopped farmhouse ale.

 

Poured into a tall tulip, the appearance was a hazy burnt yellow color with a finger’s worth of white foamy to messy head. Mostly messy lacing, semi-sticky. The aroma starts off with a big sour lemon flowing into a nice semi-sweet to bitter dry hopped grassy sweet hops. Lemongrass subtleties. Tweaked semi-white pepper spice underneath. Nice fresh/bright crispness all around. Some pineapple. Light Stonefruit. The flavor leans sour initially with a sly crisp sour lemon/grassy hops. Subtle malts, seem sour-ed appropriately. Fresh light smooth sour aftertaste flowing into the finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Good carbonation. Overall, really nice dry hopped sour ale that I would preferably have again in the Summer.

 

Golden straw with thin white head

Smells of green apple and lemon rind

Crisp, refreshing, a little funky

The amount of tartness is very refreshing...not a puckering sour, much more crisp and balanced

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was about the same as most of the other dry hopped sours Almanac does. It was super tart, clean, and crisp. I felt like the hop character was not quite as good as many of the others, but still very enjoyable.