American style blonde sour ale by this brewery in San Diego, a collab with another one and apparently a blend of different batches; 75 cl bottle from Geers. Snow white, mousy, foamy but irregular and quickly opening head dissolving completely, hazy golden blonde robe with somewhat khaki-like tinge and swirls of visible sparkling throughout. Fruity, quite focused and mildly funky nose: yellow plums, dry white wine, grape skin, damp straw, wild apples, sherry vinegar, ripe gooseberry, lemon juice, egg yolk, cooked rhubarb, old dried lime peel, touch soap, kefir, wet vanilla-scented oak wood. Acidic onset, very lemony – and in this case not only in sourness, but also in actual flavour, in a quite elegant and refreshing way, mingled with impressions of unripe nectarine, green plum, gooseberry, lime and sour white grape; fizzy carbonation, strong and drying lactic tartness cutting in a ‘white yoghurt’-like way through the fruity esters and slick white-bready, supple malt backbone. Lovely vanilla-ish oakiness in the end, tannic in a ‘blank’ and pure kind of way, adding a rustic quality to an otherwise still enthusiastically fizzing sour ale. Ends almost like a very dry sparkling wine with a lemon peel-like hoppy touch to it and restrained earthiness. Highly refined and elegant within this style, more so than I was even hoping for really – not overly harshly acidic like many other American sours, nor overly dirty or yeasty, but remaining composed, lean and bright. Beautiful.

I feel like I've had this bottle forever. Gnarly yeast cake, sweet and super tart cherrys all up in funkville.