Mellifluous #3
Great Notion Brewing

 

 

 

Poured from 16oz can into my 8th Wonder chalice. Canned 12/14/23.

Appearance: murky, thick, juicy body with an initially thick head of fizzy foam that dissipated almost instantly. Looks more like fruit juice than beer, but I get that that’s the style.

Smell: sweet and fruit-juicy with just a bit of earthiness; it’s that hint of depth at the end that I find most appealing. Some of these beers seem so strange, but at the end of the day, I kind of like it.

Taste: let me take you back to the spring of 2001. I am a college student, unwise in the ways of drinking, and one night I go pretty hard on a mix of gin and Dole pine-orange-banana juice. This is the memory this beer triggers in me. Thankfully it’s 20 years ago, or I might have reacted more, uh, viscerally. OK, history lesson over, this is a perfectly cromulent ridiculous fruit juice sour.

Mouthfeel: kind of a thicc boi, but without a ton of carbonation. Reasonably creamy.

Overall: this beer is what it says on the tin. Even for the style, it’s rather sweet for me, but fans of beers like this ought to like it.

 

 

 

 

2024-01-07
16oz can served in a curvey pint glass. Date is hard to read, but might be 12.14.23. My brother in law gave it to me.

Pours thick orange yellow -- after the fairly large head dissipates, it looks quite a bit like orange juice. Smell is banana, mango, something a bit funky, maybe a hint of kettle sour.

Taste is juicy. Mango and orange primarily. Tart, feels moderately lively, Tartness really enhances the juicy aspect.

Mouthfeel is thick, not quite pulpy. Overall, it's a pretty good slushy sour.

i generally loathe this style, but great notion is so good at it, i was pumped to try this. number three in the series, there is just a generic listing here on BA so i added it, each of them have different fruits i think. this one is done with apricot, peach, banana, passion fruit, and tangerine, some "natural flavors" in there too for good measure, seems like that is more common, and more commonly accepted now, than ever before, nobody cares whats in their smoothie kettle sour right? jeez. anyway, this one is better than so many others, and its one of the few beers id actually suggest rousing a little to make it uniform, all the fruit puree in this settles out, so best to make it even. super thick almost jelly-like in texture with a muted orange tone. it oddly holds a head, most of these dont, and it looks a little more like beer than a lot of them, the density is truly something to behold. fuzzy stone fruit in the nose and taste, which are identical, minimal sourness but whats here is clean, heavy mushed and overripe banana too, less of the tangerine and passion fruit, but tropical for sure, definitely has a morning drink vibe, even a little white wine note, sweet the whole way, but just sour enough at the end to be somewhat well resolved. major banana and apricot preserves on the finish, a delicious combo, and the fruit all seems so authentic. i taste almost no grain, certainly no hops, and find this pretty fringe as a beer, but in this style space its well ahead of so much of what else is out there, really cool effort here. a pour was enough, but this is clever and good for what it is, maybe the most and most natural banana i have known in a beer in my life...