Monocle
Urban Artifact

Sour mango, heavy mouth feel, like a sour mango milkshake, not sweet but excellent, Must swirl the can during the pour to get the sediment off the bottom! Excellent sour!

Active pour yields slight more than a fingers worth of light to medium khaki colored froth that dissipates in the blink of an eye... The color is a murky pale amber... Mango on the nose with assorted other fruits... Pleasantly sweet without becoming cloying... Quite appealing... Flavor profile is exactly as expected with just the the right amount of bitterness and acidity mixed in... Satisfying and complex... Feel is light to medium bodied with a good bit of fizzy carbonation... Very very nice beer... Hides the 8.1% ABV rather well... I can recommend without hesitation...

I am admittedly not a fan of sours, though I keep trying them hoping to find "the one." Well, this ain't it...

Looked great - a thick-looking, thick-mouthfeel of a brew that poured slowed, had no head, and was mango distinctive to the nose. Sadly, the taste was way too sour to enjoy and detracted from the mango, which is supposed to add to the malt. Alas, a decent brew I will admit, probably one that sour lovers would greatly enjoy. For me this is s a one-and-done...

 

 

 

Quite an interesting beer it never seem to have the exact profile of a mango be it super sweet almost candy like or Tart which I expected for the Kettle sour style just somewhere in the middle. The gains used did make it taste more beer like and while not the best from the line of Kettle sours they offer it was far from an unpleasant experience

 

Giving us more of what we want, Urban Artifact hears the call and gives in with am imperial amount of mango, mango and more mango. Brewed also to imperial strength gives mango lovers and even more animated reason to charge ahead.

With a pass of the nose and a gentle sip, the high tartness of the ale with squint the eye and twist the face shortly after its hazy golden orange pour and its lofty cotton froth. With a tease of tropical aromas, citrus, breadiness and juiciness lead the way into that juicy mango taste.

As the flavors of fresh squeezed mango juices flow over the middle palate, its radiant fruit display is ripe, radiant and bold. As a backdrop of lemon, lime, gooseberry, crabapple and orange play closely behind, the taste tightens into a sharply acidic finish with a peppery and vinous alcohol bite for extra measure.

Medium bodied and fuller for most sour ale, Monocle finishes bready, tart and with an expected extension of mango and vodka-like warmth.