Two Bridges
Mirage Beer Company

 

2022 vintage (bottle 260/322); consumed on 5/10/2023

Pours a crystal-clear, honey-gold body with active, lasting effervescence and capped with three fingers of soft, airy, white foam; decent head retention leaves a limited array of paper-thin islands of cap, minimal collar, and almost no lasting lacing holding to the walls of the glass.

Aroma offers a champagne spritz enmeshed in fresh peach upfront, with juicy pear edges proceeding into pithy plum sweetness; a lactic funk eases through the back end, carrying a fruit salad freshness against shreds of oak.

Taste opens to peach and lacto-funk, with plum skins and pear esters lingering through the mid-palate and slight, glossy white wine meandering in the backdrop, peaking with pronounced pluot closing alongside faded apricot past the swallow.

Mouthfeel brings a light body and a shredded fluff of moderate carbonation, progressively flattening to ample tartness as a lacto-zing grazes the mid-palate; tempered acidity meets juicy waves along the back end while a clean gloss finishes.

An exercise in subtlety tempers waves of spent fruit, each delicately showcased throughout a profile of mild funk and faded, white wine riffs.

Superb! Damn near perfect BA fruited tart saison. See my Untappd for pic and review @c b