Rancor
Shire Breu-Hous

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a super hazy yellow amber color with a thick and puffy head of white foam. The head has a fantastic level of retention, fading super slowly over time and leaving tons of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is rather strong of a bready and yeasty smell mixed with a mix of tropical fruits and citrus. The tropical fruits are heaviest of a papaya and passionfruit, while the citrus is big of orange and tangerine. Along with these fruit smells comes a bit of grapefruit hop as a bit of peach and apricot. There are some nice pine and herbal hop smells as well as a rather strong presence of some floral and hibiscus. Rounding it all out are notes of honeydew and cantaloupe, mixing with the rest to produce a quite inviting smell.
Taste – The taste begins with a bready and yeasty malt flavor that was detected in the nose, mixed with a rather strong showing of papaya and passionfruit. There are some sweet confectioners’ sugar and melon tastes upfront, both of which grow a bit stronger at the expense of the bready tastes. While lighter upfront the citrus becomes more potent as the taste moves forward with some tangerine, orange, grapefruit hop, and lemon all coming onto the scene. There is a moderate showing of an earthy and herbal hop mixed with a bit of floral hop upfront, with the herbal fading a touch while the floral gets stronger. Toward the very end of the taste transition, some a bit of lemongrass and a surge of sweet, leaving one with a rather rich and very pleasant and smooth, fruity, somewhat sweet, but very approachable taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is thicker and more chewy with a carbonation level that is low and smooth. For the sweet, malt, and rich tastes the feel is fantastic, really allowing the sipper to appreciate the big flavors of the brew.
Overall – A very flavorful and smooth brew with a rich nature and dangerously easy drinking demeaner. Quite nice and one to certainly try if you have the opportunity.

 

Allowed to acclimate to room temperature for 7 minutes and poured into an IPA glass.

Pours a hazy, almost creamy looking very light orange with a white 4 + finger lingering white head with a tiny hint of orange to it.

Initial aroma is orangey citrus mixing with hops, backed by tropical smell with pine and pineapple.

Initial taste is orange (fresh squeezed potent orange juice as well as orange oil) and pine, with a little pineapple, quite sweet too. There is a hoppy taste of course, it's juicy, bright, and crisp, but also extremely refreshing, this would be incredible on a very hot day. Bitterness with some astringency reveals itself on the sides of the tongue only in the aftertaste once everything else has faded, although I don't find it too bitter. If it makes any sense, this tastes like the colors light orange, light green, and light blue. It reminds me somewhat of pacific cooler capri sun. Halfway through and I'm still getting that tropical fruit juice taste.

It's extremely smooth. It's juicy and has a very nice substance to it. The head is extremely fluffy as well, small bubbles that hold together and don't move much like foam on a cappuccino. I also find that it just goes down very gently.

I will definitely buy this again, as well as recommend it to people.

It's not important but I just want to mention that that it may be my favorite ever art for a beer.

 

Enjoyed home, 5/15/22