Beer For Beaches
Off Color Brewing

 

Aroma is big peaches/pineapple/fruit and a hint of spicy Belgian yeast. The flavor is peaches/pineapple juice, malts and a citrus hop/spicy Belgian yeast finish.

A can poured into a beer glass. A cloudy Raspberry red pour with a light head that dissipates quickly, leaves no lacing.
The flavor is fruity a hint of tangerine, but mostly of berries. Cranberries, raspberries, and underripe currants come together mind.
A sourness lingers over all flavors. The finish is somewhat crisp and a bit tangy.

A type of beer I rarely drink, but seems to be a solid representation of the style .

Draft at 44 Canteen in CoMo. Poured a clear reddish color with a small, white head of fizzy foam. It left minimal lacing. It smelled of peach, cranberry, citrus and lemon. Nice tart taste with lemon and cranberry.

cool beer, sort of saison-esque at its core, another fun one in this series for these guys, who have held my interest and attention for many years now, always jump in it when i see their stuff. this is summery all the way, belgian and estery and fermentation forward, with a lot of tropical fruit character and high drinkability, i think it works for beaches as a theme, but seems built for a tulip glass or something like it, which generally dont come to the beach with me, probably less compelling straight from the can, which is how most people drink beer at the beach, but never mind that. peach, cranberry, pineapple, and lemon in this, a unique combination. the color is a shade or two richer than i was thinking it would be, copper color almost bronze, fairly clear, and very high headed, looks belgian and excited. the aroma is a bit sweet, the peach hits in a bellini sort of way, i get a ripe cantaloupe note, almost perfumy with the estery yeast in this, some sharpness from the lemon helps balance the sweetness in here, and there is some appreciable tang from the cranberry too making my mouth water. notes of white wine, pineapple candy, richer crystal malt, and subtle saison yeast spice notes of white pepper and coriander seed. the flavor follows, fruity all the way but each one hits at a different moment, peach first, the lemon last, the two most robust in here for me, i love how well integrated it all is, and how unifying the yeast seems to be. some earthy minerality tied up with the grain, fuller and slightly warming, an interesting choice for a summery beer but it works and i like the non neutrality of the malt. not overly fruited, ideal yeast ester profile for this too, kind of white wine-like as it warms too, and rushing carbonation keeps it light and moving. relatively complex, slightly funky even, and distinctive all the way. unlike anything ive really had before, very original recipe and rock solid execution as always from off color. dig it!

A - A pink cast orange body, clear and clean, with a pink tinted white head, fading quick to a partial bubble cast. No lacing to speak of.

S - A quiet soured grain note, and soft fruit notes over the top.

T - Follows the nose, with indistinct fruit and a touch of sourness. The finish reveals the lemon and cranberry more clearly, and throughout all is an ongoing lactic yogurt thrum.

M - Moderate carbonation and solid acidic sharpness, a bit of slickness in the finish.

O - I like this one, hitting a lot of notes I enjoy. The notes are not clear enough, though, and the lack of clarity results in something not quite as good as the promise.

 

16 fl oz, can, no date on the can, but I've been holding this down for a month or two, and with the end of summer approaching, best to kill this can. "Summer Ale with peach, cranberry, pineapple, and lemon juices added".

A: Body is pinkish & rubyish, with hints of orange thrown in. Head is big and billowy. Super fluff.
S: Aroma is lightly musty, but fruity. Super berryish, with a hint of sour / tartness.
T: Fruity, crisp, slightly watery if you ask me, and a lot of the flavors (pineapple in particular) are not really noticeable. Peach comes through the most, giving the beer a lot of white wine like flavors. Cranberry is there, but i would probably think it was raspberry if I didn't know any better. Slightly gose-ish at times.
F: Smooth, crisp, clean, fairly easy-drinking. Okay carb.

Overall average. Off Color has put out better fruit beers in the past.

Off Color Brewing Beer For Beaches -----3.5/5

16 oz can into a tulip. Cloudy pale ruby-peach color with a fizzy white head. Peach, pineapple, cranberry aroma. Unexpectedly puckering sour flavor - tannic cranberry, tart cherries, overripe blackberry. Feel is medium with a good amount of carbonation.

Released 6/28/23; drank 7/12/23 @ the Yarchives.

Mostly opaque orange/pink appearance.

A rough pour yielded a big, noisy khaki head which quickly dissipated; almost no lacing remained.

Tart fruit punch notes in the nose.

Medium mouthfeel.

Tart fruit punch with a hint of clove.

Enjoyable but not one I'll seek out often.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Murky yellow body with a white cap. Expected this to be refreshing and fruit forward, but in reality it was kind of neither. Aromas were more phenolistic than expected, cranberry and pineapple stand out in particular. Taste almost conveys the fruit in an overripe way, esters all over them, lemon and peach are stronger here than nose, but neither have much depth, just kind of muddled fruits with malt and lighter yeast. Body is light, smooth but has plenty of that ester smoothness. Not what I was expecting, seems caught in between