Cheat Day Cherry Cheesecake
Rusty Rail Brewing Company

Got in a BIF from Ozzylizard. 16 ounce can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours fairly hazy orange copper color with a 2 finger fluffy off white head. Great head retention, spotty lacing, and streaming carbonation for a sour. Aromas and flavors of tart/sweet red cherries, fruit skin/pits, lemon, lime, green apple, white grape, light vanilla/cream, peppercorn, hay, straw, grass, lacto/Brett funk. Lt-med herbal bitter, yeast spice, and fruit tang/tartness on finish. High carb and light-med body. Crisp clean refreshing finish. Lingering sticky hop and drying. No puckering/astringent flavors. Not as dessert focused as I hoped. But as a general sour with a lot of well developed Brett flavors it was very enjoyable.

Cheat Day Cherry Cheesecake from Rusty Rail. Purchased at Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA, 03/10/22. $ 4.50 (Including tax)/16 oz can ($ 0.282/oz). In reefer at store, stored at 40 degrees at home. Reviewed 09/10/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. Served at 44.7 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 49.6 degrees.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), opaque.
Body – Peach, opaque. Under direct light, same but the liquid appears filled with near-microscopic particles. When rear-lite, peach and translucent.
Head – Large (Maximum six cm, aggressive center pour), white with a touch of pink, high density, diminishing to a four mm crown with an occasional seven mm peak and a rocky partial cap.
Lacing – Poor. A few pieces of froth remain hanging on the glass as the level drops below half full.
Aroma – 3 – Virtually none. Distinctly no cherry, just a bit of weak generic stone fruit. No hops, no malt, no yeast.
Flavor – 3 – Follows nose. No malt, no yeast, no hops. No ethanol (5 % ABV as marked on label) aroma or taste. No gastric warming occurs. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3 – Medium, watery, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 2.75 (After deducting 0.25 point for undated can) If I really think about it, I can detect a bit of sourness, but contemplation fails to discover either cherry or cheesecake.