Tears Of The Goddess - Carrot Cake
Mortalis Brewing Co.

 

 

for a sour this beer has great flavors like eating a desert - share one with a friend

On tap at Mortalis Brewing in Avon, NY.

This one pours a hazy golden orange color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like sour citrus, cinnamon, caramelized carrots, lemon, and cake.

Like a lot of this series, this really plays tricks on the mind. It's quite citrusy, which is generally unlike carrot cake, but the spices and sort of earthy sweetness from the carrots really do remind the palate of the classic dessert. The spices do not overwhelm, and the addition of actual cake doesn't make it too sweet. I think this being a sour IPA rather than a milkshake does help it from being too cloying.

This is thick, creamy, and very drinkable. It doesn't drink at all like it's beer.

This is one of the more intriguing and well done beers so far in this series.

 

Thick hazy yellow, no head save a tiny white ring. Definitely a unique beer, let's discuss. Aromas of cake, huge vanilla, spices, and light pineapple, very interesting but get more pineapple cake than anything. Tastes starts this way with big cream cheese and minor pineapple, waves of vanilla sugar wash the palate over with spices being light receding notes but it doesn't stick the landing on the finish, somewhat sour rind which is supposed to be carrot I guess, but not was I get. Points for originality. Feel is lightly sour but mostly sugary and sneaky heavy. Would be a chore to finish the whole can by myself, but again got to respect how out there this is

16 oz can split with a friend, poured into a wine glass. This beer looks weird - kind of a gross murky greenish orange. It smells even weirder, like rotten spiced vegetal carrots. The flavor is worst. Cloyingly sweet. Some spices, but not anything that belongs in carrot cake. Vegetal hops. There is carrot cake hiding in there somewhere, but this is an abomination and a no-brainer drain pour. What were they thinking?!

 

This one threw me for a loop. I had to try it just because the premise is so unique and it did not disappoint. It really does smell like fresh, moist carrot cake but they really did hit a home run with the cream cheese aspect. You definitely get that creaminess in the mouthfeel so it rounds out the beer really nicely. This is a must try. I don't see anyone else pulling this off this well. Kudos to Mortalis.