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Four Winds Brewing Co.

Reminds me of a poorly planned lemonade. I guess they were targeting the Female market?

 

 

 

355ml can - part of their 'Notus Series' (which you can very well look up yourself). An APA flavoured with lemons and Himalayan salt, yet with a French name, meant to be an after cycling thirst-quencher. Got it?

This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent layered sudsy cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates. There is some chunky sediment floating about as well - lemon peel?

It smells strongly of yup, acrid lemon peel, some gritty and grainy, toasted pale malt, saltine crackers, and some equally pungent leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is big and brash lemon, orange, and white grapefruit citrus, grainy and crackery pale malt, saline solution, earthy yeast, and more herbal, leafy, and musty verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-taunting frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, as all that citrus astringency can't help but mess with the ideal metric here. It finishes off-dry, the malt clawing its way out of the clutches of that margarita-esque acerbic fruitiness.

Overall - this is indeed a refreshing and enjoyable cross between a hoppy APA, and, well, a gose. First I've ever encountered such a thing, but leave it to Four Winds to engineer it. Like I alluded to earlier, its like a margarita, sans the booze heat.