Slushy XXL - Blue Gummi Rings
450 North Brewing Company

Always blurring the lines between beer and candy, 450 North is perfectly happy to dive deeper and deeper into the smoothie end of the pool with a blueberry, raspberry, mango and marshmallow sour ale in true blue gummy ring fashion.

Just like pureed fruit cocktail, Bllue Gummi Rings pours like a deep purple and mauve mud puddle while drawing in the nose with a fully fruity scent. A drift of dark berries with the soothing scent of vanilla, light tropical fruit and cream lead into a richer taste of heavy cream, sorbet and sherbet as the initial taste is rife with cereal and fruit-laced sweetness.

The smoothie sour ale fully saturates the tastebuds as its middle palate in nearly teeth churning in its intense. juicy, creamy and rich. Notions of sour gummies certainly come to mind just as the listed fruits drape in melted sorbet and the heavy suggestions of vanilla and cream to soothe the senses before a tangy balance steps in late. Finishing with a somewhat tannic bite and a citrusy bitterness, the late taste is lightly winey, cidery and met with an unsettled fruit skin bitterness.

Full bodied, cloying and firmly meant as a dessert beer, the malty-sweetness and candied remnants outlast the sourness as a long aftertaste of fruit skins, seeds, piths and pulp linger deeply on the tongue.