Pick'n - Strawberry Blood Orange
Heist Brewery - NoDa

Draught Vault

 

 

 

A: Pours a murky medium pink-ish orange in color with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate medium golden yellow + burnt orange + ruby red colored highlights. The beer has a two finger tall dense sudsy foamy off-white head that slowly reduces to a large patch of thin film covering approximately 85% of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Light to moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Slightly stronger than moderate aromas of slightly sweet strawberry and slightly lighter than moderate aromas of blood orange over the top of just shy of moderate aromas of moderately sour wheat malts, slight lemon citrus, and light to moderate amounts of brininess.

T: Upfront there are just shy of moderate flavors of moderately sour wheat malts with a minimal amount of sweetness. That is followed by a light flavor of lemon citrus and light to moderate amounts of brininess. Finally there are slightly stronger than moderate flavors of slightly sweet strawberry and slightly lighter than moderate flavors of blood orange. Light to moderate amounts of lingering tartness in the finish.

M: Light to medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Light amounts of acidic prickliness.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol. A really pleasant base kettle sour with a ton of fruit - the sourness of the base beer and the tartness + sweetness of the strawberry + blood orange pair very well. Enjoyable and refreshing.

 

The color you would expect from a beer with blood oranges and strawberries. Kinda reddish orange and hazy. The aroma is sweet, tart and a perfect blend of orange and strawberry. Light and tart with mild carbonation. The strawberry overpowers the orange just a bit but it tastes sweet and tart. This is really tasty.

Appearance - Pours cloudy bright pink mixed with orange. Head recedes quickly to a sporadic ring around the glass.

Aroma - Big ripe strawberry aroma, tart almost raspberry aroma. The smell is pretty sweet with light tart undertones, getting a little vanilla as well.

Taste - Really well balanced sweetness and tart acidity The blood orange/raspberry flavors come out first quickly followed by the sweet strawberry. There is again a hint of vanilla, really impressed at how well the flavors standout in this one.

Feel - Light bodied sort of puckering initially, finish is somewhat syrupy.

Overall - Really well done, the flavors really stand out very well balanced.