Slushy XL - Sour Glow Worms
450 North Brewing Company

Always blurring the lines between what is beer and what is candy, 450 North is perfectly content to straddle the fence with their smoothie sour ale that's chocked full with cherry, peach, passionfruit, tangerine and kiwi in true sour gummy worm fashion.

Like true pureed fruit cocktail, Sour Glow Worms pours like a murky and dull mauve while drawing in the nose with a full candied and fruity scent. A host of fruity sweetness with the soothing confectioner's sugar, tropical fruit and citrus lead into a richer taste of taffy, sorbet and sherbet as the initial taste is rife with cereal and fruit-laced sweetness.

The smoothie sour ale completely saturates the tastebuds as the middle palate is nearly teeth churning in its intense, juicy, sweet and rich taste. Notions of boozy jam and fruit rollup certainly come to mind just as the listed fruits drape in melted sorbet and the heavy suggestions of sugar cane before a tangy and cidery balance steps in late. Finishing with a somewhat tannic bite and a light citrusy bitterness, the late taste is milkly winey, cidery and met with an unsettled fruit skin bitterness.

Full bodied, candy-sweet and firmly meant as a dessert beer, the malty-sweetness and candied remnants outlast the sourness as a long aftertaste of fruitiness, fruit peel and pulp linger deeply on the tongue once again.

 

 

Can courtesy of jeffreed61.
Looks like peach or passion fruit juice. Minimal head.
Smell and taste are both peach dominant. I’ll be damned if they don’t remind me of gummy worms or gummy peach rings.
It’s weird, but they nailed it.