Oishi
Brewfinity Brewing Company

 

This is different from most wild ales I've had. It's sour but it's also smoky and somewhat woody. Not smoked wood, but mushroom stalk-like.

The color is...it looks a bit like the tannic water of Tequamenon Falls...less coca-cola though. Almost no head retention or lacing, not that I look for that in this style, really.

The smell is sour, a bit urine-like. But not overwhelmingly so...it smells a bit like an unfamiliar person.

The taste is slightly sour and ashy. I one had a dish that was oyster ash (it was molecular gastronomy) - more burnt than fishy, but more like the burnt ghost of fish. This has about a 1/10th essence of that taste with much less salt. Add a little grass and saddle leather to that impression. At the back of the tongue near the adenoids, there's a lemony hint as it goes down. The aftertaste is dirty lemon.

The mouth feel is thin and watery with a bordering line of stinging bubbles just coating your tongue.

I like this beer! I'm sure I've described something that sounds dreadful, but it's something I would order again.