Mouth Feelings
Transient Artisan Ales

 

Pours an opaque yellowish/orange with a white head and decent lacing.

The smell is like putting your nose into a bag of dried apricots. It's pretty incredible.

The taste is slightly sour and bitter with tons of apricot flavor.

The mouthfeel is creamy and lower carbonation.

Overall a really nice beer with tons of flavor.

Pours an opaque orange with two fingers of white foam. Head retention is great. Aroma is mango, both ripe and overripe. Tangerine and orange zest mingle with bready malts, although the focus is mango. Flavor profile is mango, mango and mango. Little bits of orange zest, lemon zest and tangerine add a little depth and complexity. Yeast adds a little softness at the back. Mouth feel is medium-thick with a soft, lightly grainy texture. Overall, mango is the name of the game here. Little depth or nuance beyond that.

Served in a 15.5oz Spiegalau tulip from a 16oz can.

16 ounce can into tulip glass; no can dating, but is a recent release. Pours opaquely hazy deep golden amber/light orange color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of sour/tart/tangy apricots, fruit skin/pits, lemon, lime, orange, red grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, guava, blueberry, gooseberry, red/green apple, white grape/wine, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, hay, straw, herbal, floral, grass, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of leathery/musty/lacto funk and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of apricots, citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, fruity/funky/spicy/acidic yeast, and bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big sour/tart/tangy apricots, fruit skin/pits, lemon, lime, orange, red grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, guava, blueberry, gooseberry, red/green apple, white grape/wine, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, hay, straw, herbal, floral, grass, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of leathery/musty/lacto funk and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness; Brett spiciness; fruity/lactic tartness, and fruit tang on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy apricots, fruit skin/pits, lemon, lime, orange, red grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, guava, blueberry, gooseberry, red/green apple, white grape/wine, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, hay,m straw, herbal, floral, grass, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, biscuit, light leather/musty/lacto funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of apricots, citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, fruity/funky/spicy/acidic yeast, and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness and tang/tartness balance; with no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness tartness, and tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly acidic/tangy/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Minimal warming alcohol for 8%. Overall this is a very good Sour DIPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of apricots, citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, fruity/funky/spicy/acidic yeast, and bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/resinous/acidic/tangy/drying finish; not overly aggressive or lactic. Nice Mosaic, Amarillo and Galaxy profile. Great balance between apricots, juicy/fairly dank/earthy hops, and Brett/Bacteria complexity; with a nice wheat/oat/malt backbone. Minimal residual sweetness with lingering bitter/acidic/tangy dryness. Not sure if this was supposed to be a sour DIPA in the first place, but it was very enjoyable for what it was anyways.

Cloudy golden body, white head that disappears slowly. Smell burst forth with the apricot, hops, orange, and bready malt. Taste is very off-putting with a huge salty note in with the hops and apricot juice. Has a tartness that has a touch of weird brett. Just not good tasting. Feel is juicy, sticky and sickly sweet, and slightly tart. Just kind of a mess.

 

Is this supposed to be one of these new "wild IPA" experiments? I've had some brett IPAs that were questionable at best, but this takes it to another level. Not enjoying, not going to drink a whole pint of it. This, to my palate, is more than just "tart apricot" and/or bitter hop character. There's plenty of fruit, and it's not aggressively acidic, but my take is that there's something else going on here that I don't know about. I quite enjoy plenty of sours, but this is different.

An aggressive poor gave me a hazy orange juice with a one finger, soapy white head. Already leaving plenty of lacing.
A wonderful apricot and citrus hops smell. Can also detect the Malt
Definitely on the sour side. Give me that takes away a little bit of The Taste however some of you sour fans may actually love this one. Bitter hops definitely come through again still don't like the combination of the tart apricot.

 

A little disappointed by this one - I really like this brewery and always love to try a new IPA, but this one was just too tart and sour and odd for me. Pours a nice hazy yellow-orange color with some foaming white head and lingering lacing. Smells of some nice citrus zest hops - tangerine, pineapple, grapefruit, lemon. Also some malt and caramel in the background. Tastes of some more muddled fruity hops, malt, caramel, bread - but there was that overpowering tartness and sourness that I wasn't expecting. Reminded me of a wild ale or sour. Didn't care much for it, was a little unpleasant. Smooth, mild, slightly creamy mouthfeel and good carbonation. Wouldn't try it again.

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on March 28, 2019. Brewed with Mosaic, Amarillo and Galaxy hops. Lots of juicy apricot aromas and flavors.