Bread & Butter
Urban Artifact

Fully embracing the brine, Urban Artifact has gone full blown pickle while embracing the bread 'n butter recipe. So now we can have our pickle and drink it too.

While rewarding the curious, Bread & Butter pours a rather bubbly briny golden color with a tinge of chrome and green tints while swooning the nose with a spicy, herbal, tangy and fruity melange of scents. While hints of sea air waft about, the initial taste is briskly sweet with sourdough, taffy and agave.

As the vegetal flavors of cucumber come with the familial pickling spices, the shape of pickle brine takes hold of the middle palate. As a natural sourness of cider, lime, lemon, white grape and gooseberry give the beer its acidic nature, the brightness of pickle brings also a melon and basil character. As the rounded salinity of brine allows for a lightly salty late taste, so do the accents of butter as well.

Light, brisk and refreshing, the ale has a pickle punch up front but then mellows out too much, flirting with watery textures instead of dryness as the session falls into finish. Still, the pickle lovers will surely like this beer especially if they are more inclined to finish the pickle juice before they do the pickles.