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Ska Sour

brent — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:29:55 +0000

I bought a few bottles of Ska Sour last year when I was in Durango. I drank one shortly after I got back and it was pretty tasty, but not really sour. It was more or less a Belgian Pale Ale with a very strong Brett character, but more of the barnyard/horse blanket character. When I went to grab a bottle a few weeks later I noticed a pellicle in the bottle and decided to wait before I drank any more. Tonight, about a year after I bought it, I decided to give this beer another shot. Yum. It still has that Brett-y Pale Ale-ness going but the flavor seems more complex than I remember. There’s a nice lactic tartness that accentuates the barnyard-floral-honey flavors. The beer has a nice medium body that surprises me given how dry it probably is and the bitterness comes up to provide a solid backbone holding the whole thing together. I’ve got one more bottle of this, I’m rally glad I sat on this one as it’s developed beautifully.

As a bonus, the beer even tried to pour my second glass for me!

Deliverance

brent — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:37:44 +0000

Ska Sour

brent — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:34:17 +0000

Life & limb

brent — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:59:59 +0000

Yummm

Estate

brent — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:42:44 +0000

Bitter American

brent — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:11:08 +0000

I do have to love a beer that can reasonably go from grain to glass in two weeks. It’s cloudy and there are a few floaties, but it is very nice for what it was meant to be.

Juxtaposition

brent — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:54:02 +0000

Wild Devil

brent — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:51:15 +0000

Temptation

brent — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:58:49 +0000