Forbidden Fruit
Avery Brewing Company

 

Insistent on not letting the sour trends in craft beer pass them by, the Avery Brewing Company hits the sour style with force. Flirting with imperial status, flush with fruit and dominant with clean acidity- this type of taste should be forbidden.

Pouring with a matte mauve appearance, the influence of pomegranate and blueberries are apparent. A tantalizing tease of the nose offers a striking tart berry scent that activates the saliva glands and puckers the mouth. A faint oaken must brings a spicy scent ahead of a tight and succinct sweetness of hard candy, taffy and berry juices.

Popping off of the middle palate like sour pop rocks, the acidity thwarts and sweeter balances to the wayside and attacks each and every tastebud with brazen sourness that's intense with elements of white grape, crabapple, lime, lemon and clean measure of pure lactic acid. As a spice of oak, fruit tannins and pectins give the late palate a peppery taste to assist the sourness, it seems to amplify its acids even more.

Sharp, acute and medium light in body, any residual malt or fruit might offer a creamy texture but certainly doesn't inerfere with the sour and spicy taste. A brief afterglow of those berries echo delicately in the retro-olfactory sense in a clean, refreshing and highly poignant freshness.