Watercolors - Cherry, Tangerine, Pomegranate, Gingerbread, Marshmallow “Creamee”
Skygazer Brewing Co

This was a very odd beer. Poured like thin baby food, maybe pear baby food. Nose was somewhat sourish, but not overwhelmingly so. Taste was odd as well. Sour with all the fruit tastes in the title. Not any gingerbread on the taste.

 

-cherry, tangerine, pomegrante, gingerbread marshmallow cream. Quite the combination.

A: A pink rose pour shows cream milky highlights with tons of milky floaties suspended in an hypnotic swirl of activity, much akin to a old school lava lamp. The capping was equally strange in visual, showing pinkish hues, but quickly collapsing to a bubbly, and muddy colored skim atop. The lacing as well looked like muddy tan, almost chocolate milk coating on the inner walls. The overall appearance reminded me again of a lava lamp, a swirling mixture of dull pink, milk creamer and yeastie floaties dancing about in a mesmerizing fashion.

S: The nose was sweet cherries and tangerine citrus, juicy, and citric.A strong marshmallow backing enters with pomegranate and pink grapefruit highlights. There is an outline of sugar cookies, im guessing the gingerbread presence, rounding things out. The strength is well mannered, and surprisingly, plays well together despite the mish-mosh of ingredients, providing a smooth transition ice cream float esque aroma.

T: The flavor was strawberries and cream straight up, with a bite of tangerine sourness. Tastes as it smells, like a rootbeer float. The cherries are alive and well providing a strong presence, tart and tangy, with some caramel-rootbeer elements and marshmallow flavor. Pomegranates are clearly defined, and along with the cherries provides a sour and acidic finish, almost kettle sour like.

M: Mouthful is creamy, ice-cream float like, marshmallow fluff, softly carbonated, milky.

O: Overall not quite sure how i feel about this as a beer, drinks like a desert drink, ice cream float, rootbeer cherry float with marshmallow is my best guess. Not something you will be drinking more then one of during a sitting. The appearance again, not sure what to think, should i rate beer like vs ice cream float? as well aroma and flavor based on intentions. It certainly brought alot to the table and was interesting but all over the table and confusing at times.

 

 

this is just getting absurd isnt it? sour gingerbread? pomegranate and marshmallow? eight bucks a can for this gimmick? only for the holidays i guess, feel like such a rip, but i am starting to really loathe the style, pastry sour, why?! thankfully i was sharing this and only had to endure a little bit, but still, not an easy task. disgusting sedimented milky thick pink pour, as sloppy as they come, even when we try to leave a little in the can so hold some particulate back, the whole thing is yucky, already unappealing enough i dont even really want to put it in my body, only the light rose tint saves it slightly. its too many things, but it actually smells alright, the spices are somewhat subtle, generic festive style, not like full of ginger or anything, and the tangerine and cranberry accentuate tartness of the base beer, which isnt that unclean really. cherry is lightly medicinal to me, while the marshmallow might as well just be lactose, its sweet and body building it seems, but sort of generic in flavor, makes this whole thing seem like dessert, without adding a specific marshmallow character. the fruit is puree probably, lots of it, and they taste good together, drop the marshmallow and the spices and run a little filtration, and this is a better than average new wave kettle sour. with all of that, and without the filtering, its a little gross, the flavor is inseparable from the texture, which is gelatinous like a melted popsicle, sticky and thick, palate coating and i swear to god, even chunky, i feel it like pulpy orange juice, with the tangerine especially it hits like that, disgusting for a beer, but the flavor is alright. light vanilla, citrus candy, and a finish that never comes, i taste this forever, cinnamon like atomic fireball candy for a second, whatever this marshmallow cream flavoring is doing, and cheap fruit punch for kids. too many things happening, offensive texture, but yet still not the worst thing in the world. hard to be objective about beer with a beer that is so far from being beer, grain, hops, and yeast are all near impossible to identify in this disaster...