Operation Plowshare
Urban Artifact

 

A - Pours a reddish purple with a large fizzy white head. The head fades fast leaving some light clingy lacing.

S - Aroma is sweet and tart blackberries.

T - The taste is blackberries, raspberries, light vanilla and a lactic yogurt finish.

M - Light body with medium carbonation. Soft mouthfeel with a nice crisp finish.

O - A nice easy drinking fruited sour.

Pours the color of cranberry juice with a thin layer of head. The nose and flavor both possess the essence of tart blackberries and raspberries. The finish is certainly sour but it doesn't go so far as to be unpleasant.

12 oz can, canned 10/15/20, into Pipeworks Willie.
This has been sitting patiently in my fridge for months while I forgot about it.

Pours a deep blackberry purple color with a bubblegum pink head of 1 finger.

Aroma of tart and puckering blackberries, lactose, vanilla, and boysenberries.

Sweetness is mostly gone from the flavor, but the tartness is still here and I get earthy blackberry mostly. Can tell there was a bit of lactose here but it has now been eclipsed by the berry tartness.

Feel is tart and puckering, no alcohol heat, medium bodied, moderate to high carbonation.

Overall it's okay but not my favorite Urban Artifact sour. Probably would not revisit, especially at the tall price tag.

$3.79 @ Bamboozle Liquors, Pensacola FL

The body of the beer is almost purple thin white head that resolves quickly. The Smell and aroma of the beer deliver sweet, tart, and sour raspberries I swear some of the fruit might be green. The raspberries are a full on force and deliver a full spectrum experience. The flavor and mouthfeel almost achieve a jam like consistency. The beer is dam tasty and delivers on that jelly donut experience.

12oz can. Pours cloudy dark ruby with a three finger, ruby head. Aroma is berry and vanilla. Taste is rich blackberry moving to vanilla, tartness and wheat.

Pretty decent sour ... Not sure this style is "beer" sometimes and this falls into that category...more like a sour tart soda ... But enjoyable and worth a try if you like this type of "beer"

Just like cobbler in a glass, Urban Artifact finds inspiration in grandma's kitchen for a blackberry infused sour ale that pulls no punches in the berry flavor.

Pouring with a dark ruby-mauve appearance, the depth of dark purplish hues are quite remarkable. As a lavender stained froth rises, so do the fruity and tart radiance. The fresh squeezed character of blackberry swoon the nose while a backdrop of cider and white wine soon follow. Sweeter on the initial palate, the juicy malt sweetness wraps around the fruit with a juicebox character and a hint of pastry dough.

The full flavor of blackberry is realized on the middle palate as the beer becomes a one-trick, berry-dominant pony. Full and plump in flavor, a robust fruitiness eventually reels in the flavors of red grape, black cherry, currant, plum and blueberry for nuanced complexities as outliers in taste. Jammy and candied, the fruit flavors eventually lead to a tart late taste of apple cider, red wine, lime and gooseberry to finish.

Medium bodied for sour ale, the juicier taste carries a greater culinary reward but at the sacrifice of absolute dryness. A peppery finish seems of burlap and lightly weathered woods for a slight musty aftertaste of wine rot.

 

 

 

Pours a dark red almost purple color with medium head. Flavor is a dominant sour BlackBerry with a hint of vanilla in the background. Perfect level of tart and fruity to my palate.

 

 

 

 

A: The beer is nearly opaque purple in color. It poured with a quarter finger high pink colored head that quickly died down, leaving a large patch of bubbles on the surface, a narrow collar around the edge, and some specks of bubbles clinging to the surface.
S: Moderate aromas of vanilla beans and blackberries are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and is rather balanced between the flavors of vanilla beans and blackberries.
M: It feels nearly medium-bodied and a bit tart on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I was surprised to see how the vanilla beans in this beer helped to balance off any sweetness or tartness from all of the blackberries. This makes for a nice dessert beer.

Serving type: can

 

Though I would start with Gadget if checking out UA's best stuff, this is among their best beers that are widely available in Cincy. Following the beautiful purple hue, its mostly sour from the first sip on. Yet, it retains and finishes with a persistent smooth fruitiness.