Paperweight
Urban Artifact

12 FL. OZ. can
Served in a tulip glass

This beer pours orange colored and turbid. It doesn't have much of a head.

It has a nice tart apricot aroma.

Good apricot flavor with a good amount of tartness.

Medium bodied with a slightly dry mouthfeel

I should have drunk this in the summer, but it is still good and refreshing on a cold winter day.

A - Pours a hazy orange with a large fizzy white head. Head fades fast leaving no real lacing.

S - Aroma is apricot, vanilla,

T - The taste is apricot, lemon, peach skins and white grapes.

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

O - Decent easy drinking Kettle Sour.

Canned 6/3/22

Another day, another Kettle Sour from Urban Artifact. This one is strictly apricot for fruit, but there’s the requisite small dose of vanilla beans as well for balance. I really enjoyed The Gadget from them last night, so I’m hoping this one can keep up the same energy. Let’s get into it

Pours a cloudy orange gold with 2 fingers of soapy off white head that fades to a thin cap and leaves minimal lacing

It’s pretty basic in the nose, but the fruity tartness that’s present is nice. I’m picking up on aromas of tart apricot, peach rings, lemon juice, bready malt, and a touch of overripe mango

It’s also quite simple in taste, but I like the acidic route it takes. On the front end of the sip I’m tasting jammy apricot, lemon zest, mealy peach, sourdough bread, earthy guava, and sour green apple. The swallow brings notes of tart apricot, mealy peach, lemon juice, bready malt, light vanilla, and overripe mango

A medium body pairs with moderate carbonation, resulting in a crisp and acidic beer. Finishes mostly dry with a sharpness that cuts through everything

Well, it’s not my favorite of theirs, but I really enjoy this. Super tart and so refreshing for the abv

 

 

 

 

 

12 ounce can, canned on 06/03/21, can says 8.0% ABV. Served in a Teku, the beer pours a hazy golden/orange color with about an inch white head. Head retention and lacing are both good. Aroma is nice, the brew smells like apricots, citrus, tropical fruit and a bit of bready malt. I think the taste is similar to the aroma, but there's also some lime, white wine/grapes and a bit of a vanilla flavor noticeable too. Good amount of tartness in this brew. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's a bit coating and easy enough to drink with a moderate amount of carbonation. I thought this was a good tart brew, worth trying if you like apricots or fruited tart ales!

There's just something about apricot. Never a fruit though that is ever craved or even enjoyed on their own, but when you put them into sour ale, then something special happens. And for Urban Artifact its basically their personal cheat code.

Golden orange and caught in a pale haze, the partly frothy, partly fizzy Paperweight starts teasing the nose with fruity aromas, a citrusy kick and redolent with white wine and cider. With its first sip, a scant fruit tart sweetness is brought to life with impressions of sourdough, taffy and pastry crust.

Yet as the ale washes the middle palate, the sweetness lifts and the sourness sets in. Refreshingly fruity with the distinct flavor of apricot offer a Fruit Rollups character ahead of a bracing sourness of crabapple, lime, lemon, gooseberry and white grape. Hints of oranges and mango show both a tropical and citrusy zing before the ale closes with a crisp, clean and appetizing acidity.

Medium light on the tongue, the sour ale finishes on a drying track with a brief echo of sourdough and dry burlap in aftertaste. Its truly an effortless beer that's hard to stop with having only one.

 

Look - thick cloudy orange with a slight hint of reddish brown, looks like apricot color
Smell - sweet and tart stone fruit, possibly a little peach and apricot.
Taste - sweet but more tart slight apricot taste but slight
Feel - medium body and light carb
Overall - would be better with more apricot taste but still really good

Hazy electric orange pour, surface islands for a head. Tart apricot and touches of vanilla are the nose. Taste follows, has hints of lemon zest, peach skin, and mango too. Body is bright and playfully tart, easy drinking. Summer on the lake beer right here

 

 

To see this fruit beer rated so high I figured it would have to be good. Appearance is straight-up apricot juice very hazy bright orange yellow with very little head that dissipates into nothing. smell was very tangy if I were to guess without knowing I would say leaning toward more mango but it definitely has a distinct apricot flavor despite it being aggressively tart. Definitely more than one note making me go wow on several occasions. Body again is quite smooth you can feel the high ABV but you really can't taste anything. Quite a heavyweight sour but one I thoroughly enjoyed. Recommended!

L: Hazy dull orange. Barely any foam or lacing.

S: Like apricot.

T: Sweet to tart.

F: Basic with a splash of sophistication.

O: Goes down quick and is powerful. It's not bad, but the craftsmanship feels heavy handed. Admittedly, I sampled this one twice. I think it would be amazing if they made these with a nitro widget.

 

Hazy apricot, half-knuckle, fizzy foam head.

Tart apricot, wheat bread, peach.

Semi-drying, lightly sour, fizzy, light-medium body. Refreshing

Enjoyable on a hot day. Good buzz

Thank you Dave for this one.

12oz can - dated 06/11/19 - poured into a fancy tulip at 48F.

Pours an apricot orange - thick and turbid, looking exactly like effervescent orange juice with a finger of loose head that disappears in seconds, leaving a sparkling top.

Nose: Canned peaches. Just like canned peaches, without the metallic can note. Some faint tahitian vanilla, and a whisper of fermented fruit sugar. Not complex at all, but insanely jammy and ripe.

Palate: The beer greets the palate with a big blast of tartness. Primarily lacto, but it's so jammy that there's very little of the typical minerality of lacto, and it does not resemble lemon juice. Just heaps and heaps of pureed apricot, apricot preserves, yellow peach, nectarine, a hint of ripe honeydew, a hint of lime zest, and a suggestion of earthy vanilla. The finish pushes out the sourness, and that lactic minerality begins to show. The sweetness subsides, followed by the jammy fruit, and then ultimately concludes with dry apricot essence and floral vanilla bean.

Mouthfeel/Body: The beer would be quite light, but the sheer amount of fruit ups that to medium-bodied, but the lacto tartness and champagne-like effervescence even that out to medium- light. Jammy and juicy upfront, yet still manages to finish very dry and clean, with some lingering sweetness clinging to the palate the way that juice would. Like the appearance, this has the body of finely carbonated orange juice.

Overall: I understand why the fruity beers get a lot of hate. Very little complexity, nothing like traditional ales, I know. I get it. I really do. Still, this kind of fruit beer is still entirely natural and takes a lot of time and effort, and let's face it...this is downright delicious. I don't think I ever drank a beer so fast. Nothing is more drinkable and refreshing than a perfectly balanced tart fruit and field beer. Top notch.