No major extra fun outings this week, just a couple of quick beers at the local on our way to picking up some dinner.
But as always things are not quite a simple as they seem - This is our first round
Now you may well say - They don't look like beers, and you may well be right. Somehow we had ended up with a completely red round of beers.
The first of these, the one closest to the me in the photo is the stronger of the two beers. it;'s the fantastically named Amity Island Sundae - Boysenberry Imperial Ice Cream Sour. by Bonehead who are about a 1km up the road from the bar in Melbourne, Australia. For you movie fans, you'll already get the joke. Amity Island is the island in JAWS - so if you spend a Sunday(Sundae) on Amity Island there is a good likelihood of blood in the water. This is a really good beer, it's got a good solid mouthfeel, it's incredibly sweet, which is probably not surprising but it's (somewhat) offset by the tartness of the fruit.
It did have me wondering aloud 'Remember when sour beers, were actually sour?" But maybe I was just being a bit Ernest - Which brings us to our second beer - Ernest (see what I did there) by 8 Wired one of New Zealand's craft beer pioneers. I had high hopes for this beer, it was explained by them as such..,.
Ernest is a nod to one of our favourite sour cocktails: The Hemmingway Daiquiri. A kettle sour beer infused with grapefruit, Florida key limes, cherries and a touch of organic almond extract for that true Maraschino flavour.
Kettle sour, Grapefruit, Key Limes - this has to be sour right? A it was, sort of, but it was also a little thin and ultimately a bit forgettable.
This brings us you our third and final beer - This is good old trusty double IPA from a Brisbane (Australia) brewery called Working Title and I have to say this one was a corker, it had a great strong body, but nicely balanced with great hop characters...
And importantly - it tasted like beer, and there ain't much better than that.
I much prefer the look of the second round of beers there now I must say. Hopefully both hit the spot
Like @ablaze wrote, I prefer the double IPA but sometime testing is necessary and you did a good job.... ;-)
Always willing to to put in the effort to test