sour – Page 2 – Let's Learn Beer!

central spain

by Ceit
December 9, 2022December 12, 2022

It isn’t a real holiday today, but it is the middle of the week and bookended by holidays. It’s almost a holiday by default, but some people take Monday and/or Friday to have long weekends and kind of begrudgingly go to work a single day of the week. Not everybody has the luxury of an “aqueduct”, as the Spanish refer to this extra-long weekend (a normal long weekend being a “bridge”). For a working day, we seem to have a normal working beer, Guineu’s Latitud 41 lager.

Activity begins as soon as the cap is unsealed, but there’s no foam overflow. The beer pours out with a sour-grain scent and a very fluffy head, settling into the glass with a very clear, slightly ruddy light lager color. The glass gives off a little metallic aroma too, making me wonder if the beer has gone off in the bottle. The flavor is at first strongly bitter and tinged with bread, a stronger flavor than I expect from a lager, but the aftertaste also has that metal and green bean bite. The beer tries to override that bit of weirdness, and it seems like it really is a fine lager, but the aftertaste is a little distracting.

life in the sun

by Ceit
September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

Given family and vacation connections, I could not ignore Jakobsland’s I Can Make You Smile. A Florida weisse? It seems to make sense from a weather standpoint. Those weisses are sharp and refreshing, not the kind of beers that leave your mouth coated, suitable for additives you might feel like doing while you laze around on the beach or by the pool. Maybe it’s even a beer you could have in celebration of voting out a wildly unreasonable governor who will then not go on to be president. Maybe? Hopefully.

Similar in appearance to fruity lambics, a little tang in the aroma. Fluffy, resistant head, tinted pink. It has the tight dryness of a weisse, with a little sour only developing in the aftertaste. There’s kind of a fruity bed that the stiff alcohol rides in on, but it’s not very sweet at all. Wild fruit, just sweet enough to not punish you for eating it. It’s almost shockingly untropical for something labeled with Florida. The dryness wears off a little over time and rising temperature, but it stays clean and mouth cleansing more than anything else. I have to be honest, though, while the beer has a nostalgic Kool-Aid color, and it’s a perfectly fine modern weisse, a stout would always make me smile more.

Supplier: Labirratorium

Price: €6.85