Casey Family Preserves - Emeraude Nectarine (Motueka Dry Hopped)
Casey Brewing & Blending and Barrel Cellar

Foggy pale yellowish-tan with minimal white head.

This translates to the palate as a bit watery, but flavor is expressive of toasty cracker meeting stonefruits and light oak.

This one pours a very hazy golden yellow color, with a small fluffy head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like heavy duty sour nectarine, lime zest, citrus, oak, and white wine.

The Casey dry hopped fruited beers are basically always a huge treat. This is a pretty intense beer - it's very sour, with some age on it. with a huge nectarine and citrus funk and sourness, along with a touch of oak to temper it, and some lime and pine bitterness from the Motueka. There's some sour wine character, too.

This is light bodied, softly carbonated, and pretty drinkable, with an intense acidity on the back end.

It's hard not to love something like this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4oz pour at Sovereign during CBC 2017.

750ml cork and caged bottle, bottled 10/24/2016.

Pours a hazy straw yellow body, one finger white head, short retention, not much lacing, thin collar.

Rich grapefruit and stone fruit aromas play together nicely in the nose. Juicy, even. Moderate acetic acidity, light house mineral funk. Follows the nose well. Grapefruit first, stone fruit, touch of leather, moderate acetic acidity, oak, light cobweb, touch of lemon on the finish, which is quickly replaced by grapefruit from the hops. Essentially a dry hopped, fruited wild. Medium bodied, good carbonation, crisp with a slightly dry, zesty finish.

Love it. This reminds me a lot of a Dry Hopped Oak Theory but with tons of stone fruit character in it; between the fruit and the dry hopping, there is so much juiciness. One of the best Casey beers I've had.