Quarantine Beer #139 sampled during the BBQ n Beer event at home on 05/24/2020. Cloudy brownish-amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily to a dense film. Sparse strings of lace. Fruit, anise, spice and malt aroma. Medium to full body with flavors of dark fruit, black licorice, caramel malt and cinnamon. The finish is fruity and spicy with a cinnamon and anise aftertaste. Pretty weird, but decent overall.

750ml bottle. Funky ginger date sour. Cinnamon? Really different than most any beer out there, like an oddball extreme pumpkin sour. The anise adds a sharp licorice touch. Intense.

Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is weird and reminds me of an herbal liqueur. Some acidity that accentuates the herbal notes from the cinnamon and anise. Moderate, fruity, date notes. Some caramel and toffee notes with light burnt sugar character. A hint of alcohol. Pours a dark burnt amber color with some brown hues and a large, thick, frothy tan head that slowly but steadily recedes to the edges where it recedes to a thin film that lingers thicker on the edges. Moderate lacing and medium small legs. Flavor is weird. It’s more acidic than I was expecting with a medium high acidity and some lemon notes. Moderate cinnamon and lighter anise notes. Medium high fate character that blends into the malt notes of caramel and toffee. A light alcohol spice in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, not a great beer. Both the aroma and flavor are weird but for different reasons. Aroma has a ton of weird herbal notes, while the flavor is slightly medicinal with a bunch of acidic dates. In the background of both the aroma and flavor is this caramel/toffee malt note.