Monument
Crane Brewing Company

12oz can. Poured out a clear, ruby color with an off-white head of foam. It some sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of tart lemon, sweet passionfruit and subtle wheat notes. Sweet fruity taste with a tart but not overly sour bite. Some wheat/caramel taste.

Got a 12 oz can, no can date, into Goose Island nonic pint.

Has a nice pinkish raspberry blush with a thin pink head of 1/2 finger, receding quickly to a fingernail.

Aroma is sour vinegar and slight berries with some faint barnyard funk and urinal cake. Slight lime zest.

Flavor is like mixing sugar, gatorade, milk, lime tea, and acid into a glass. It's really something else. It's incredibly intense, it's like a big unwelcome dog jumping on you and not stopping. As it settles in I'd say its strongest flavors are berries and sour milk. It's definitely flavorful I'll give it that, but overly sweet, overly acidic, and kind of a mess is also what I'd say.

Feel is acidic and heavily carbonated, it just bites every aspect of the mouth from the lips to the tongue to the tonsils.

Overall, I can see how one might like this if they are a sour-head, but this thing is just kind of a wreck to me.

Price paid : $2.99 / can
Would buy again : no, this was a disaster

 

 

12 oz can

Pours hazy grapefruit pink, no head.

Aroma of citrus, cracker, and fresh berry.

Flavor is tart up front, lemon and raspberry, followed by a mellowing sweetness of passionfruit and mildly creamy finish.

Light to medium body, sting of carbonation on the tongue.

Bright, tart, refreshing, and easy drinking. Very enjoyable sour, would drink this again in warm months. Good porch beer.

 

Ruby-red grapefruit juice with full, fluffy foam. Sour and salty passionfruit, some grapefruit. A drying, refreshing, somewhat smooth body. Really nice and good on a hot day