Enchanted Island #1
Humble Forager Brewery in Rochester, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.39
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jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Enchanted Island #1 from Humble Forager Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Super golden and hazy coloured body with a very thin, fast-dying white head that is about 90 per cent opaque, with seemingly no movement. Aroma of coconut, guava, mangoes, papaya, melons and a ton of pineapple - very strong in the nose with some alcohol, wheat and a lot of sweetness, here, too. Medium-bodied; Very strong fruity, sweet notes with a lot of coconut and pineapple with a rich wheatie note and some floral aspects, but the honey, sweetness and pungent fruitiness of this make this great, with a nice tropically finish, a decidedly pina colada vibe, of course. Aftertaste shows a great balance throughout with a ton of wheat and richness with some pungent coconut especially and some melon, papaya richness and the tropical finish of pineapple with some acidity here, but the alcohol is hidden well, perhaps behind the residual sugars, but the overall profile is very nice. Overall, a very nice, super rich, flavourful and pungent beer, that is still very easy-drinking and a ton of fruit complexities here make this very nice and sort of un-beer-like, but nice overall and great to have, especially at this time of year, far removed from an island. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Knightly Spirits in Orlando (Orange Blossom Trail), Florida on 04-November-2021 for US$5,69 at my house here in Washington on Beer (and Day #9) of my 2022 (self-created) advent calendar.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
In the can you're almost are plenty of pineapple, orange and a little nutmeg. In the glass it mellows out quite a bit. Flavors are massively sweet tart slightly on the sweet side. Maybe there's some coconut in there. Great body carbonation and finish. I think it'd be a great duck marinade.