Slushy - Dragon's Breath
450 North Brewing Company

16 ounce can into tulip glass, no can dating. Pours turbid ruby red/orange fruit smoothie color with a small off white head with poor retention that reduces to nothing pretty quickly. No lacing and some streaming carbonation on the glass. Huge aromas of straight up fruit juice. Flavors of huge sour/tart/tangy dragon fruit, passion fruit, guava, papaya, peach, pear, kiwi, lemon, lime, green apple, white wine, wheat, dough, hay, straw, grass, pepper, and lacto funk. Moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness and fruit tang on the finish. Medium-high carb and medium body. Fairly crisp/clean finishing on acids/tang. Balanced creamy/grainy malt, lactic acid, and fruit tang on the mouthfeel. Lingering acid/tangy drying after the finish, no pucker/astringency. Amazing balance of juicy/jammy fruits and lacto complexity. Not as sweet as I expected, just a spot on Berliner weisse with a ton of fruit in it. Loved it.

 

 

Being the king of slushy beer, 450 North brings a fruit filled sour beer to the palate on the backs of dragonfruit, passionfruit and guava. After an addition of creaminess, tartness and cereal, this beer is true to it's slushy name.

Dragon's Breath Slushy pours with a heavy silt, turbid orange peach hue and cast in a matte pastel finish. As a creamy orange stained head builds, its tangy and succulent tropical scent is as radiant as any fruit punch imaginable. Tangy with fruit tartness and creamy with vanilla and cream, its scent quickly bleeds into an agave, honey and condensed milk sweetness with a deeply embedded cereal quality early on the palate

But the middle palate is where the fruit flavors explode. The passionfruit and guava flavors tease the tastebuds with a juicy tropic medley while the dragonfruit adds a general fruity sweetness. Vanilla and cream add a smoothie type of balance while the ale trends tart, succinct and creamy on the late palate.

Fruit juices continue to flood the finish while its tartness plays a bigger role in the late taste. Medium bodied but seeming fuller because of the pulp of fruit, the beer is an anti-scurvy, full recomended daily serving of fruit in a can; trailing into a medium length aftertaste of passionfruit, citrus, wine and cider undertones.