Stud Finder
Ferndale Project

Canned on 8/19/21; consumed on 9/14/21

Pours an opaque, dark sunflower-gold body capped with multiple fingers of fluffy, mounded white foam; great head retention leaves ¾ of a finger of rocky cap, a frothy, moderate collar, and curtains of soapy, webby lacing clinging across the walls of the glass.

Aroma brings forth dank wild blueberry contrasting a more subtle, earthy sweetness of nectarine peel as papaya and underripe white grape advance a tropical dankness over the middle; hearty rye bread spice underlying across the bouquet, becoming a more prominent counterbalance to apricot jam notes into back end.

Taste offers mango sporting a citric twang of lemon peel upfront, leaning toward musty apricot skins over the mid-palate before sweetening to peach nectar leveled by mossy, resinous hop characteristics on the back end and through the finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium body with a fluffy, prickly moderate carbonation, a tautly mineralic texture easing in favor of a creamier mid-palate; the back end shows a resinous twang before tinges of juiciness bwgin to spark the finish.

A tentative, safe presentation of myriad hop tones, recognizable though rarely expounded upon; despite the rye base hindering the fruitier elements of the hops from shining through at times, the result remains evenly composed and an overall pleasure to drink.