Mango Brut IPA
Folding Mountain Brewing

473ml can - it's kind of strange that they seem sort of proud of how fast the flavour disappears, in order to allow the dry Brut 'character' to come in. Or so sez the marketing blurb.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden apricot colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky bone-white head, which leaves some creepy forest entrance pattern lace around the glass as it evenly sinks out of sight.

It smells of juicy mango, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, gritty and grainy cereal malt, some stoney flintiness, and plain earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, dried mango peel, more domestic citrus fruity notes, a damp minerality, and some tame leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-taunting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular point in the game. It finishes trending dry, sure, but not soul-suckingly so.

Overall - well, once again, an example of truth in advertising, which is always a nice little bonus. Big mango up front, blink and then it's gone, replaced by a generic hop dryness. I'm on the fence about these extremely low FG offerings, as I typically like to experience flavour from cradle to grave in the brews I drink. YMMV.