Apple Crumb Pie Sour
Blue Point Brewing Company

 

 

It pours a hazy pale amber with a white head. The aroma is apple crumb pie all the way. Upon taking a sip, the sour notes will kick your tongue immediately. There's a bit of apple crumb flavor behind it, but the sourness is tough to get around.

This is a self described Imperial Sour Ale, currently not an available category here at Beer Advocate. This seemed like the best place to list it. From a brewery which has successfully captured flavors so well in their Macaroon Delight, Rainbow Cookie Porter and most notably, French Toasted, this comes. Poured from a pint can into a clear glass liter mug, it's obviously not a porter, nor a stout, as their best flavored products are. This one pours more like a Berliner Weiss, or some other wheat based concoction. There's way too much stark white foam on top of the beer. It recedes quickly enough, leaving scant and irregular glass lacing. The brew itself is the amber color of most adjunct lagers, just a little cloudier. There's a pronounced apple and cinnamon aroma, so this seems to be on the right track to another flavored beer treat. It tastes OK, but the cinnamon overpowers the apple by too much. Only during the finish, when the cinnamon fades, does the apple flavor become the focus. That the aftertaste is the best part if the experience is always nice, but it shouldn't only be the good part. Tart, rather than sour, this does come remarkably close to capturing the objective taste. The cinnamon and apple flavors dominate, so there's no real presence of malt, hops, nor alcohol to the tongue. It goes down as lightly and smoothly as any of its kind. Typical of the style, there's scantily sparse glass lacing. This may not be the best of their flavored beers, as French Toasted is very hard to beat. But, this is a good change from flavored porters/stouts.