Inexplicably Juicy
Tattered Flag Brewery & Still Works

A thanks to the incredible woodychandler for this beer. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Despite zero agitation, this beer foamed up quickly, resulting in a slightly cloudy yellow color with several inches of head. This issue has occured before with beers from this brewery. Smell is bursting with grapefruit, tropical fruits. Taste is juicy, berries, grapefruit, moderate bitterness. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is an enjoyable beer.

 

This is my seCANd in New Back to the Beer Future Sunday, Part 4, Mission III, (Week 762) as part of The CANQuest (tm). It will also be my last from this brewery. They have become well-established & ensCANsed as purveyors of "problem children" https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/problem-children-cans.623459/#post-6635212 & the previous one was my final straw. I will drink, review & rate this one with the same unbiased eye that I bring to most beers, but they have garnered the last shekel that they will get from me.

From the CAN: "Ale Made with Natural Flavors"; "Store Cold. Drink Fresh."

Well, there it is. The usual disclaimer that does NOT do the CANsumer any favors.

I donned protective gear to include safety goggles, rubber gloves, hard hat, lab coat, apron & steel-toed boots. Now, I was ready to Crack! open the vent! Sure as s**t, I got some foaming coming up through the vent immediately. They should take a cue from Cracker Jack & label each CAN "Surprise Inside!". Rubbish. A modicum of calming time & I was ready to get this over with & put them behind me. I CANtinued with a slow, gentle, C-Line Glug that still foamed up, almost unCANtrollably. 8=( More calming time. It foamed up nicely to form two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, eggshell-white head with decent retention. Color was a deeply-hazy/lightly-cloudy Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose was unexpectedly sweet with a very berry-like quality! Red raspberries? Strawberries? Odd. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste had an un-natural flavor-like quality of kiddy CANdy. 8=p It was a) unnaturally sweet & b) making me sweat in response. I do not do well with sweet anything & this was scaring me. There is a history of diabetes in my family, which is why I get screened every year during my annual check-up + sweets really set me off. None of this was indicated on the CAN! It also got my heart beating, which was kind of scary. What was in this beer?!? Finish was unbearably sweet with a berry-like flavor straight outta the chem lab. 8=p It's all yours. I'll never be back.