Funk Fest 2020
Yazoo Brewing Company

When life gives you lemons, you make a beer. With the cancellation of Funk Fest 2020, the beer to christen the celebration finds home instead, in bottle form and in the Tennessee communities. But keep in mind, Yazoo brewers are quite soured on the events surrounding the cancellation.

The sour ale that marks the occasion pours with a burnish golden appearance and held in a firm yeasty, wheaten haze. As its frothy head rises, its falls in fizzy form to a trace, leaving behind a host of funk and fauna that fills the nose with weathered oak, wine, brine, tropical fruit, citrus, straw and spice. With all that going on in the nose, the taste is supple with wafer-like sweetness and a touch of honeysuckle to light the way forward.

As the complex and earthen ale washes the middle palate, its brazen acidity teases the tastebuds with a fruity taste of lemon and grapefruit rinds. With the mild juiciness of tropical fruit, hints of passionfruit, pineapple and white grape offer a tilt to the winey and brightness of taste. Trending earthy, spicy and sour, a late palate of mossy oak, white pepper, vinous spice, sea brine, leather and sourgough all highlight the beer's wild and wily taste.

Medium light in body, its character is loosely based on Belgian Gueuze but along with American exploration in taste profiling and an overall youthfulness in taste. A quick finish of thirst quenching sour earthiness is prolonged only by remnants of sourdough, saddle leather and peppery sea brine in a retro-olfactory action.