Quetzal
OEC Brewing (Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores)

This one pours and dull and slightly hazy yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like a great citrusy gin, with lemon, lime, botanicals, oak, old rind, deep funk, and a light citrusy hoppiness.

This is really, really great - the gin barrel works so well with this beer, adding a super refreshing funky lemon and lime flavor, along with some drying oak, a huge prickly funk, and some more typical citrus type flavors. The blend here works incredibly well.

This is light bodied, clean, and super drinkability, with a manageable sourness.

This is a really unique and tasty beer, and I wouldn't expect anything less from this brewery.

Poured from a can (no date, purchased at the brewery back in October) into a Belgian glass - said drink fresh, aged accidentally

L: cloudy yellow, massive white head. Practically exploded out of the can, serious carbonation very effervescent. Some particulate from the bottom of the can

S: lots of lemon, gin barrel comes through very well. Coriander there, nice spice. Aroma is sharp, tart, very inviting

T: follows the nose, tart and sour with lots of lemon/citrus flavor. Get some gin spice, really delicious and thirst quenching

F: medium/high carbonation, nice light mouthfeel, crisp

O: a very good sour, and despite being told not to age this beer held up very well. From memory flavor was more defined at OEC/fresh from the can but this held up well

No canning date present (released week of 9/11/19, so presumably canned within a few days of that date)

Pours a clear golden lemon/straw body, gushing and eventually settling to a sizable and thick eggshell white head; excellent retention fades slowly to a brooding, dense collar, paper-thin cap, and array of webby, soapy lacing sprawled about the glass.

Aroma is bright with fresh lemon zest and backing touches of coriander and peppery herbal gin developing quickly; lime and oaky funk opens over time, followed with tones of musty burnt wood and wet incense.

Taste brings a modest array of musty lemon funk, old citrus rind, and orange peel to start, building to a heavily funky barnyard/botanical spice lingering into the finish with a boggy, mossy overtone.

Mouthfeel has a light body with moderate, consistent, and semi-airy carbonation; a deep acidity pushes a tempered tartness across the palate, where an oily middle transitions to a wet, slightly prickly swallow.

High drinkability and a deeply funky, fruity complexity define this one, while just enough gin barrel comes through to evenly mellow the acidity for a wild ale approachable at any juncture.

 

Pours hazy with a citrusy gin like flavor. The best part of this beer is the aftertaste which is truly unique and tough to describe. Light bodied and not overly sour.