Centerpiece
Urban Artifact

 

355 ml can
Served in a wine glass

This beer pours a murky, orange hue. It is topped with a fleeting tan head.

It has a nice strawberry aroma with underlying pineapple.

Sweet, juicy strawberry flavor upfront. Once the tartness starts to enter the taste, the pineapple kicks in and adds a second dose of sweetness with a tart finish.

Medium bodied with a slightly dry finish.

Delicious and very refreshing. That was a well-executed fruit combination.

 

 

This had been sitting in my shelf for a while now and this is the perfect setting. Not a glamorous one, just a break from a home repair job. A fruity thing would be appropriate.

This pours a pinkish yellow with decent head. The aroma is completely unique. Tartness exudes in the smell already and when it hits your tongue it gives you a healthy dose of cool sours with a boozy substrata.

Highly recommeded. Add this to my repeat Urban Artifacts, file under very tart.

 

 

Look - thick glowing orange with a slight tan
Smell - tangy orange strawberry white grape smell
Taste - strawberry pineapple white grape, different than smell
Feel - medium full body with a lighter creamy body
Overall - pretty good

 

 

 

Stepping into the cocktail world of craft beer, Urban Artifact has no problem weaving the flavors of pineapple and strawberry into a sour ale for a fruit mystique to expound upon the acidity that they already use quite well.

Pale, peachy and very cloudy, the nearly smoothie-looking Centerpiece quickly grabs the nose with its bold tropical and berry perfumes. Along with a bready substrate and a tart wine-like character, the scent soon transitions to a light pastry sweetness of sourdough, taffy and sweet cereal grains.

As the fruit flavors unfold on the middle palate, the blend of pineapple and strawberry borrow from the natural lime, grapefruit, gooseberry and white grape flavors for a strong fruit punch medley. Holding onto more malt starches than usual, the beer's bready taste is balanced by the firm but manageable acidity and a light minty hop bitterness late in taste.

Medium bodied but reading a little fuller for sour ale, the centerpiece of a beer leaves a cereal and starch fullness on the tastebuds lingering like fruit colas in an almost sticky way. The fruit impressions need to either be bolder to become a smoothie-type beer or the dryness and acidity need to increase to appease the sour ale fans more.