Sixfold I: Wild Pale Ale
West Sixth Brewing Company

With the balanced caramel malt and citrusy hops that's common to the American pale ale, the flavors are then dissected with the funk and fauna of brettanomyces wild yeast for a complex and rustic taste that flirts with brewer's sour side.

Its light bronze haze sheds a creamy and frothy white foam cap that carries all of the grapefruit, orange and caramel but with an earthen waft of saddle leather and damp hay. Lightly sweetened with honey and caramel, its taste is supportive with biscuit and mild graham cracker.

Its light and mild middle palate shows a tapering off of malt and a tart and earthy taste setting in. Lemon, green apple, green grape, lime and the tang of under-ripened berry shows an estery side with a peppery, woodsy spice to complement the hoppy finish of citrus peel, spruce and sawdust.

Light and steely, the lingering remnants of malt apply like cola and cashew in a medium bitter finish. With an aftertaste of weathered oak, balsa and burlap, its earthen perfume makes one more round before a semi-crisp, semi-dry exit.