Tacenda

Refrigerated 12.7 brown bottle poured into a tulip. Clear pale yellow with small white head. Aroma is white grape, medium/light body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is complex rich tart white grape and malty white grape. Really good beer.

Wonderful sour, funky and tart, hideously ugly yet fairly delicious. Ignore the pour; the appearance sucks, move along. Nose offers up a healthy chunk of barnyard brett and lemony sourness, just what you want from the style. The taste, though...the taste is damned fine, a blast of tart lemon and bright yeast, leading into a sour Warheads middle that slowly gains a honey-tinged muscadine sweetness. The grapes make all the difference; muscadine adds a round, lingering depth to the proceedings, sugary but not overwhelming, just enough to add a needed complexity to an otherwise standard, if solid, sour. Finishes tart and fruity, the grapes continuing to smooth out the yeasty fade. Texture’s not great, and it kinda looks like flat ginger ale, but ignore your eyes. Tacenda’s lovely.