NTM
Urban Family Brewing Co.

2021-12-27
500ml bottle served in a tulip. No date on it, but pretty sure it was a one-time thing. Bought it at Full Throttle Bottles a couple weeks ago.

Pours a clear bronze-gold with a fairly large, coarse head that settles into a fine, creamy ring with an incomplete skin. Smell is tart, lemon, maybe peach, with a twist of kettle sour tang to it.

Taste doesn't have the kettle sour characteristic I smelled and was dreading. It has a strong chardonnay kind of butteriness, oaky, lemon/peach tart.

Mouthfeel is surprisingly full, slightly thick. Overall, it's a pretty good beer. Not stellar, but pretty good.

super unique beer, a rose style sour they call it, first one ive had in awhile from urban family. syrah grapes, strawberries, and cucumber, not sure how much of that id be able to identify without knowing, it more presents itself as white than red wine grapes and barrels, tart and mature, woody and quiet sour really, without as much nuance as it sounds like it should have, at least from fruit, this is fermentation and barrel driven to me, which i am fine with. i get more generic fruity sweetness from the strawberries than anything else, more tannic property from the grapes, and an herbal freshness from the cucumber, they are either too minimally dosed to stand out, or they are faded and its getting older, or perhaps its just so well integrated that they dont jump out. the final theory i guess is that we drank a million beers this weekend and palates were shot. none of that prevented me from enjoying this though, elderflower brightness, stone fruit sweetness rather than berries or grapes to me and some vegetal bitterness on the finish with all the oak and acid, oh theres the cucumber. a little more sour than i needed it to be, but i like the maturity and the layers the fruit and cucumber provide, even if they are subtle. cool beer, id like to try it again knowing what to look for, but if this is still getting more sour in the bottle over time, it might be too intense to drink if i ever get the chance down the road. always fun to drink new ones from these guys, should have maybe given this a little more specialized attention, but its a solid wood forward funky sour, if less weird than hoped for...