Repertoire I
Hudson Valley Brewery

 

 

 

It looks like carrot juice. To give a more rounded description with more depth, a bruised peach or the mature reddish-orange skin of the common grocery store mango. The lack of head adds to the impression of a fruit being put through the juice machine. A sweet clementine orange with the tartness of a bright red raspberry. Alphonso mango swallowed up by the perfume of a passionfruit. Whatever sweet tropical-stone fruit I galvanize the tropics counterpunch with a medicinally bitter orange or melon. I will say the addition of vanilla, however, really has a lasting impact on the finish as it delivers the most nonchalant creamsicle flavor. One of my gripes was the rather hard carbonation, which ushered away the sweetness just a bit. Instead of San Pellegrino I was left with GuS soda Valencia orange and pomegranate. The body is a little icier rather than lush and creamy although it has some soft spots.