Mango Cannibal
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

From a 16oz can, dated 07/27/23. Served in a willi becher pub glass.

Pours a thick and viscous mango juice-colour (which, in fact…) with no head at all, just some fat, scuzzy bubbles. I do not believe that this is meant to look good so I won’t bother being disappointed.

The can ingredients read ‘mango, vanilla, milk sugar’ and that is, in fact, exactly what it smells like.

Taste is more complex than the aroma: there’s a sharp, tart candy-like quality and, although I’m tasting slightly underripe mango, more than that I’m getting a strong ripe strawberry flavor - if I had my eyes closed I’d think the contents of my glass was pink rather than orange.

Feel is ‘smooth and rich’ as per can description, also out-and-out sludgy. There is carbonation but it’s irrelevant to the mouthfeel - actually, that’s not true; it would feel much heavier and pulpier without the fine, zesty carbonation.

Overall, I cannot bring myself to call this ‘beer.’ My empty glass looks like it had mango purée in it and my mouth feels like that’s what I just drank. Except strawberries, too. Comparable to the Angry Chair Puffs series but even thicker and fruitier. How do you rate something like this?! It looks like monkey diarrhea but I expect that’s what it’s supposed to look like.