Freaky Hijiki
Interboro Spirits and Ales

 

-Berliner style.

A: Literally an volcanic eruption in my vessel, a fury the likes I have never seen comes on the pour with a raging effervesce that feared will tip my glass, violent and dense for the first few moments. Things settle eventually, but still remains is the heavy dense like coloring with a few good moments. The head is foamy and large at three plus fingers and holds its own quite well. The coloring is a dirty brass-golden orange. The visual is strong as well the audible tones from the carbonation.

S: A bit of sour lemons and stalky grains. Hints of lime and sour fruitiness of pear and apricot in particular. Overall a fair awareness factor with a light muskiness of cobwebs that comes with the style.

T: Golden fruit pears and a twang of oranges and wheat for the flavor on the open. Tart and funky, suited to style, with damp grains, hay, and spicy apricots. Dank fruitiness with some spritzy lemon-lime accents concludes.

M: Good vibes from the carbonation, another strong indication of style, a particular heavy body with some syrupy feel. Crisp and well suited.

O: Overall a Berliner that's alive with effervesce as well flavor. Tangy and tart fruitiness, dry tartness, hay and muskiness with a lively explosive carbonation brings everything together. Great feel and fullness and a lot of bang from a 4%. Nice sour twang.

 

 

A thanks to the captain of the canquest, woodychandler, for this beer. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a copper/pinkish color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of raspberries, sourness. Taste is tart raspberries, dry and easy drinking. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a decent beer.

If you are CANming late to today's show, The CANQuest (tm) would like to provide the following recap of recent events as a PSA. In CAN effort to close out Untappd's "Better Together" badge, The CANQuest (tm) assembled all of the collaboration beers (& otherwise) from Barrier BC in his extensive backlog & systematically eradicated them through perseverance, reviews & ratings, CANminating last night. The next brewery in line for this treatment is Interboro, also noted for CANned CANlaboration beers and also with a large backlog presence. This beer also creates a bridge since my last WBAYDN post ended with a Beastie Boys video & this beer is from Interbro in CANlaboration with … Yeastie Boys! 8=O

From the CAN: "Berliner Style with Raspberry and Lemon added"; "Interboro x Yeastie Boys"; "Brewed with our friends from Yeastie Boys"; "Come Visit Us and Our Tasting Room".

For this one, I did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent to begin a steady, heavy-handed C-Line Glug. I was successful in that it was mildly-hazy, but the rolling, roiling, fizzing finger of pinkish-white head quickly reduced to wisps. Color was a lightly-hazy pinkish-Amber (SRM = N/A or > 7, < 9). Nose was of lightly-tart raspberry, very evocative of my late-paternal grandmother's backyard garden in the Summer. Mmm. Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, on par for the style. The taste had a definite tartness, as my lips pursed after each sip, lightly lemony and very much of raspberry. Mmm. It is such a beautiful day that at any other time, I would happily take this out on my front porch to sip while watching traffic go by. Now, I am self-quarantined, socially distanced & the traffic is down to a trickle. 8=( I will just have to be satisfied that this is a very pleasant interlude in an unpleasant time & be satisfied. Finish was semi-dry to dry with a lingering raspberry lemonade flavor. Mmm. YMMV.