Little's Noses
4 Noses Brewing Company

part of their ad hoc series, a collaboration with littles liquor, one of the better beer stores in town, and one of the better kept secrets it seems too, i can always score something rad in here. the beer is a sour base, not quite exactly a berliner but close enough and definitely not wild, brewed with pineapple and passion fruit. orangey and even slightly pink from the can that got lost in the fridge for awhile, a fizzing bubbly head rises and recedes. the nose here is quite sour but really clean on the lacto side of things, lemony and tidy, with the tart passion fruit right there with it and the pineapple adding some necessary sweetness. the malt base seems really light, and this doesnt appear to be the most complex beer in the world, but its summery and tropical and appealing to me. the flavors mirror the nose pretty well, a zesty almost lime sort of citrus element introducing the passion fruit tartness, which again works so well with the clean lacto sourness here. the sourness is rather high, and the pineapple doesnt quite balance it as well as it suggests it might in the smell, but its there taking the edges off, not as natural to me as the passion fruit, more of a canned than fresh pineapple complexion, but this can is at least several months old now and may have faded or changed some. high acid at the end, rushing carbonation, and an oddly clean finish for a beer this fruity. summery and zippy, uniquely and robustly flavored. i enjoyed this.