Kill Your Idles: Tropical
Idle Hands Craft Ales in Malden, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series|
Score
6.91
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Mango, passion fruit, guava, rubber, malt, and straw aroma. Cloudy pale yellow with small head. Lightly sweet mango, guava, passion fruit, light biscuit malt, moderately sour citric acid, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Burnt rubber aftertaste. Not sure if it was just the mixture of the fruits but kept getting a rubber aroma and taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 1/15/18, drunk 2/3/18.
Hazy, light blonde-peach-golden. White head fades quickly to ring.
Pineapple juice-like notes seem juicy but still well-attenuated and integrated, with an ample amount of lactic acidity that seems properly aged and integrated. Not a punchy, sharp, brutish kettle sour. Guava and other leathery, tart, tropical notes linger on the finish with sparse cracker and biscuit-like malts and no alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it's juicy, perhaps not as juicy as expected, but assumedly has attenuated more the month it's spent in the can. Still, if it's any less fully juicy, it's even more integrated and beer-like than expected, with cracker, moderate lactic acidity and lots of tart fruit acids and skin-like character (though of course this is all puree). Tight, engaging carbonation, great malt attenuation, crisp and dry. No flaw or alcohol. Love this series.