7 American Sour Ale
Mile Wide Beer Co.

Ringing in their seventh year with seven fruits- raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, marionberry, cranberry, plum and vanilla all find their way into a kettle soured ale to keep the party rolling.

Its with a medium mauve, tarnish rust pour that 7 pops with an initial part-creamy, part-fizzy froth that shares a host of juicy, berry, dark fruit and vinous notes that tease the nose with tartness. As its sweeter grain profile rolls onto the tongue, the light candied sweetness of cola, taffy and toasted wafer give impressions of flanders style ale.

With the sweetness retreating on the middle palate, the juiciness of dark berries, stone fruit, pitted fruit all provide a robust fruit flavor, the tangy citrus qualities of the underlying ale gives off lemon, lime, white grape, gosseberry and green apple. Trending more vinous like red wine, the late palate is softly bittered to let the growing sourness to shine.

Medium bodied and perhaps a little fuller for sour ale, the elevated alcohol further reinforces the beer's vinous qualities, finishing crisp, dry and refreshing with a little added kick, because that's why we're at the party anyway.