Double Moa
Omnipollo

 

Presentation: 16 oz. can with no dates, served in a Willi Becher glass.

Appearance: The fluffy, white colored head goes away fairly quickly and leaves behind almost no lacing. It's a slightly hazy, straw color. 

Smell: It's a pleasant, sweet, fruity, lemon hard candy aroma and that's pretty much it,

Taste: It's very tart and sour but in an enjoyable way. There's a juicy, fruity lemonade note right up front. As that subsides a more sugary, sweeter, lemon hard candy flavor shows up.

Mouthfeel: It's light, very smooth and even a little bit creamy. Carbonation is medium.

Overall: It's a fruity beer that's very enjoyable with a lot of tart, citrusy, lemon character.

 

 

16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned in 2/2020. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep golden amber color with a small fairly dense and fluffy off white head with solid retention, that reduces to a minimal spotty lace cap that lingers. Minimal lacing on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big sour/tart/tangy lemons, lime, peach, pear, melon, red/green apple, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, cream, wheat, white bread dough light pepper/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of lemons, fruity/acidic yeast, and moderate lactose/bready malt notes; with big strength. Taste of big sour/tart/tangy lemons, lime, peach, pear, melon, red/green apple, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, cream, wheat, white bread dough light pepper/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, and fruit tang on the finish. Lingering notes of sour/tart/tangy lemons, lime, peach, pear, melon, red/green apple, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, cream, wheat, white bread dough light pepper/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Slight lingering vanilla. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of lemons, fruity/acidic yeast, and moderate lactose/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/sugar/tart/sourness balance; and minimal puckering flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering tart/sourness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderate creamy/grainy/acidic/tangy balance mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6%. Overall this is an awesome fruited kettle sour. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of lemons, fruity/acidic yeast, and moderate lactose/bready malt flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/frying finish; not overly lactic. Awesome balance of juicy lemons and lacto complexity; with a nice clean lactose, and pale/wheat malt backbone. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and impressive style example as expected of the brewery.

 

Aroma is fruit/tropical fruit/lemon and lactose/slightly musty. The flavor is lemon/fruit/strong fruit rind, malts and a funky yeast/mildly sweet finish.

 

 

 

Pucker up baby, the Omnipollo brewers are taking the tastebuds on a wild ride! Pulling no punches on the acid level, lemon curd is added to the sour Berliner-type beer and then balanced with lactose. But its lactose does little to buffer the palate from the sourness.

Burnt lemon in color and shrouded in a fine mesh haze, a spirited foam cap forms temporarily on the rim. Nose piercing aromas of citrus, cider, wine and brine tingle the nose ahead of a modestly sweet taste of sourdough, light taffy and modest cream.

But the grain influence dissolves quickly and the middle palate opens up to the brunt of sourness that's ushered in by the lemon and lactic acid. The acute sourness of lemon, lime, grapefruit, crabapple, gooseberry, sour white grape and yuzu pull the cheeks together and force a sour derived astringency with a hint of dry burlap in a late palate that comes very quickly.

Light in body, the soft brine of the beer adds roundness to the lemony sourness as well does the soft lactose creaminess. The finish comes quick with a highly refreshing, crisp and mostly clean taste and an effortlessly drinkable mouthfeel. A brief aftertaste of cream of wheat, sourdough and burlap is all that's left behind.