Informal #4
Fermentery Form

Fermentery Form "Informal #4"
$8/4 oz. from a bottle of 2019 at the brewery on 23 August 2025

Look: Cloudy golden-orange body beneath a short head of white foam that displays limited retention and just some minor spotty lacing. This is fairly standard for a sour beer but the cloudiness is unusual unless the lees had been stirred up.
Smell: It's clearly oxidized. Notes of caramel, grain, mustiness, and distant fruit.
Taste: As the aroma suggests with additional oak, and knowing that there are cranberries there - cranberries. I doubt that I would have been able to pick out cranberries had I not known. It's tart and very dry.
Feel: Light-medium in body with a mild carbonation but some acidic bite. Slightly astringent.
Overall: My guess is that everything wrong with this beer has to do with its age, and most likely the way that the bottles was treated. This could have been opened on Tuesday night and then put away until Saturday afternoon, but at the same time that wouldn't explain the heavy oxidation. I'll review it as it is, noting that it is at least 5 years old.
Review #9,276