Mother Of All Donkeys
Parallel 49 Brewing Company

14oz glass at the Common's tap takeover - called Mother of Donkeys on the listing card here, which may just be a print space limitation. Apparently made with 3 different yeast strains - ok.

This beer appears a clear, glassy medium copper amber colour, with one standard finger of lazily puffy, broadly foamy, and wispy tan head, which leaves some sparse mitochondrial chain lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of semi-sweet, grainy pale malt, a heady candy-like light fruitiness, some weak flinty notes, and tame earthy, herbal, and leafy hop bitters. The taste is more sugary pale malt, a growing caramel/toffee sweetness addendum, muddled, but still strong orchard fruit (more pome and stone pit than citrus in orientation), and the same mild earthy, floral, and herbal hoppy notes from the nose.

The carbonation is pretty much unheralded in its quotidian frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a tiny suggestion of an airy creaminess as things slowly warm. It finishes on the sweet side - that overarching fruitiness predominating.

I suppose that this is indeed a yeast experiment, and as with most experiments, unexpected results do often occur. I was expecting some sort of funk/sour/astringent character, so the big fruitiness threw me for a proverbial loop. Not bad, but kind of generic, even if that wasn't the intent.