Twister-Apple Cranberry Thyme
Kismet Brewing Company

It pours pretty ugly. It actually looks like apple cider. Does build some head that lasts a bit and ends as a ring and a bit of a raft.

As soon as the can pops there is a big hit of sweet apple and then it stalls a bit until a good inhale finds the cranberry and earthy thyme emerges. It's pleasant enough, lively. It seems to have a lactose smell but the can says nothing about lactose.

Taste opens with a nice, sweet apple that is far more sweet than tart. The cranberry is subtle, providing some balancing acidity and puckery phenolics. The thyme...hmmm...super earthy, extremely strong late in the taste but mercifully brief. It's almost a surrogate for hop bitterness, but I think a couple more leaves would have overdone it - just short of too much as it is. I do get a vanilla taste that makes me think lactose...

The mouth feel is on the high side of medium but nowhere near being a smoothie. Mild carbonation. Refreshing in flavor but a little too heavy to be refreshing. A bit of a peppery spice lingers as the huge hit of thyme fades. The cranberry dries it out some.

Overall it's fun and festive and the flavors work pretty well together. Could have easily been a trainwreck but it only wobbles a little on the rails with the heavy hit of thyme.

Smothie style sour ale.Not bad for ingredients like this.