Thai Delight
Prairie Artisan Ales

 

 

 

Pours an effervescent & somewhat hazed gold with fast-falling beige head. Floaties, zero head retention & lacing

S: Sour mangoes, pineapple juice.

T: Pineapple, a little coconut, tartness & a touch mango up front. Sweet/tart pineapple juice, muted coconut & a kiss of mango once warm. Finishes sweet, a little dry & tart with plenty of pineapple & a little coconut

MF: Medium body, delicate carbonation

Very drinkable. Would be perfect with breakfast or some curry

 

unique one here, the yellow and plaid checkered can caught my eye, and being done with coconut cream, i had to have it. inspired by mango sticky rice, this is brewed with rice, mango, and the coconut cream, weird in a sour ale i think, and this is more sour than it needs to be, although the tartness is quite clean, it cuts through some of the starchy richness the other ingredients contribute. really dense and full of sediment, looks like the coconut cream and the rice both are no joke in here, looks like milk added to yellow beer straight up, and holds an almost nitro looking two inches of thick almost goopy white head, very unique visually. the aroma is pleasant, tangy like lemon from the lactic souring, which serves to accent the mango, not as fruit forward as i thought it would be, but natural enough and different. the coconut is more apparent, creamy and smooth and neat with the light wheaty grain base, very intriguing and weird. the flavor is similar to the nose, almost under flavored compared to expectations at first, but i like its subtlety. i like how its not overly sweet like many of their recent sours have been, and i like how real the coconut is, its very much like thai coconut cream from the can, light citrus and sweet mango with it, and super thick and smooth and starchy from the rice, definitely robust in that regard and i appreciate the risk taking. fine carbonation but still thick enough to be kind of a slow sipper, again a little too acidic to really hit the mark, but they have done something wildly original here, feels like something that maybe an omnipollo would do. in any event, i like this a lot better than a lot of other prairie sours of late, this is the experimental kind of beer i have come to expect and admire from them, even if its not the wild fermented stuff of old. really clever and maybe not perfectly dialed in or refined from a quality standpoint, but its fun and its one of a kind. tone down the acid and clean this up just a bit and its dynamite...

 

On-draught @ Prairie OKC:

B- / WORTHY