Lil Fif
Bog Iron Brewing

Poured from a 16oz can. Too much sediment for my liking. Nice hazy yellow color with basically zero head retention. Again, a large amount of floating sediment. Smells a little funky like a bar rag and lemon. Taste similar. I want to like it because the brewery is 5 min away, but I can’t like this beer. Their blonde ale and stinger are good beers.

Thanks to JLindros to hooking me up with a can of this. Canned 1/8/19

A - Poured into my Duvel tulip a hazy golden milkshake hue with a thin one finger white head that fades at a normal pace to leave light sudsy wisps. No real lacing though even after firm swirls.

S - Aromas of pithy grapefruit and orange zest, which smells great. Unfortunately, after a swirl it smells like solvent alcohol and the type of knock off cleaning solution I used to make the kids in prison clean the bathrooms with. When it sits for a minute or so the pleasant pithy citrus pops but further swirling brings back the strong chemical and aggressively toasted malts. Or maybe just burnt chemicals.

T - Taste is well, fusel. Astringent chemicals, more fusel notes. Lemon pledge, lingering almost burnt band aid flavour that just clings to every square inch of my mouth. Finish is some how even harsher to the point of almost making me retch. What on earth is going on here? Solvent cleaning chemicals with flashes of pith bitterness.

M - Mouthfeel is very lightly carbonated, medium bodied.

O - Overall this was absolutely atrocious. I'm not sure what the heck goes on in their canning process but I don't think I've had a can from them I actually thoroughly enjoyed. Which is shocking because their draft and growler fills are pretty darn good. This though...this takes the cake. This tastes like cleaning chemicals and I don't just mean flashes of astringent or bitter hops. No. No. To the point that blindfolded I would think that JLindros has actually poured 'contact poison control immediately if swallowed' in to a glass and attempted to murder me. Where is the quality control testing on this? I would rather get drunk off of hand sanitizer than this train wreck. I suppose on a plus side I won't have to buy any CLR as this chemical cocktail should do the trick on my kitchen sink.

Serving Type: Can

Draft at brewery
Nice pillowy creamy head, great retention and notched lacing, hazy cloudy orange juice color

Nose loads of juicy citrus, orange juice, little grapefruit pith, mango, papaya, orange sherbet, little rind soft flaked malt and wheat

Taste big citrus and fruit juice, candied rind, more mango orange sherbet, touch of papaya, soft juicy wheat and flaked malt or oats, a touch of rind bitterness, soft minerals, no alcohol, a touch of paper yeasty note very late

Mouth is soft juicy creamy, med to fuller bod, nice creamy carb, no alcohol

Overall this was really good, best beer in a while from bog. Right up there with most tree house ipas. Big juice bomb and super dangerous as it drinks much lighter than 8%