Muckraker Snowbird '21

750 ml bottle from the brewery, via delivery, 9/29/21. Pours a fizzy / bubbly golden-orange color with a quick dissipating head. The aroma is vinous and oaky, slight viegar thing as well, with some underling tropical notes. Wouldn't have specifically picked out either passionfruit or prickly pear here without being told, but knowing they are present I can taste them both slightly. The flavor is much brighter and fruitier than the aroma interestingly, with the vinegar and oak both fading quite a bit and being replaced by a refreshing, slightly tart, fruit forward quality. There's some back-end funkiness as well here. DI drank most of it out of a glass, but I threw some of the bottle into a lidded mug just to see if it would come off differently without the presence of the aroma, and in the mug I hardly get any of the vinegar or wood notes that were some prominent out the glass. This information is not really relevant to my review / rating, I was just curious. Overall, I quite like this one. Well done.