Sleeping Limes
The Wild Beer Co.

 

 

330ml can - made with limes and sea salt. A perfect summer release, as it arrived here in November, of course.

This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly fizzy off-white head, which leaves a little bit of streaky lace in places around the glass as it evenly evaporates.

It smells of slightly sour lime zest, gritty and grainy cereal malt, saltine crackers, and very faint earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a lesser grainy wheatiness, watered-down lime juice, saline solution, and more well-understated herbal, floral, and weedy green hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, as the tart/sour essences are restrained enough to allow for a good time at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the malt and lingering citrus fruitiness carrying on like old pals.

Overall - this does indeed come across as a rather refreshing tipple, as claimed in the marketing blurb on the label. Well-made, if a little steeply priced in my neck of the woods, but that's not on the brewery, it just affects my desire to procure more of it.

 

Pous a clear pale yellow colour. Smells like a salty margarita; sour and salty preserved limes, sour, and with some bitter lager-esque notes. Tastes medium-bodied. A clean salted lime gose profile throughout. Lingering mineral and tangy lime rind palate.