The Troubles We Love
White Pony Microbrewery

750ml bottle - another copious note-fed account from a tasting from a while ago, so I can't at this time recall who to thank. Oh, mio Dio!

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some disintegrating mesa lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.

It smells of tart mixed red fruit (cherries, raspberries, and apples), gritty and grainy pale malt, further lemon PIne-Sol notes, a thankfully subtle funky yeastiness, and a sense of white Italian cheese (the very best kind). The taste is semi-tart dark orchard fruits (again, yer typical cherry, raspberry, and generic pome esters), more grainy and somewhat crackery pale malt, a sense of unloved (and apparently non-existent) wheatiness, faint Pils-like Euro gasohol notes, a still well understated yeasty funkiness, weak old-school bland vinous barrel essences, and a small earthy, weedy, and mildly perfumed floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the acridity here does well to perform no harm nor foul, as such. It finishes off-dry, actually, the malt doing a stand-up job in parrying the lingering and varied sour/tart character.

Overall, this is a pleasant enough, if rather dear (from what I remember) version of the style - the serving size being a big part of it, I would imagine. Not nearly as complex as the Low Countries examples that I am familiar with, yet still possessing a lot of that brio that one might expect from an Italian-bred, well, anything.

Had this one at a tasting a ways back, from notes
Faint fruit, cherries, raspberries, some oak, there’s a metallic thing going on in the background, almost tastes like I bite my tongue, sounds odd and maybe it is