Slushy XL - Minemelons
450 North Brewing Company

What was once a beer but is now a game, 450 North is perfectly content to play up their smoothie sour ale with strawberry, watermelon and honeydew for a land mine of flavor.

Just like pureed fruit cocktail, MineMelons pours like a murky mauve and rusty appearance while drawing in the nose with a full and red berry scent. A dunk of strawberries with the soothing scent of melon and red grape lead into a richer taste of sweet fruit puree, sorbet and sherbet as the initial taste is rife with cereal and fruited sweetness.

The smoothie sour ale fully saturates the tastebuds as its middle palate in nearly teeth churning in its intense. juicy, creamy and rich taste. Notions of sour jam and fruit rollup certainly come to mind just as the listed fruits drape in melted sorbet and the heavy suggestions of juicy melon before a tangy and cidery balance steps in late. Finishing with a somewhat tannic bite and a citrusy bitterness, the late taste is winey, cider-like and met with a mild fruit skin bitterness.

Full bodied, pleasantly 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 once more.