Bottle. Pours cloudy yellow white head. Nose/taste of rustic apples, funky tart citrus, lemongrass and spelt - medium body. Refreshing.

Bomber from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours bright gold with a slight white head. Aroma of fruit and citrus. Med body at least. Flavor is hot bits, stone fruit, citrus and a definite earthiness. Seems to nail the style. Quite tasty.

Draft at Gingerman. Pours cloudy yellow gold white head. Nose/taste of pineapple, citrus, orange peel and caramel malt - medium body.

Bomber from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours very dark ruddy copper with a slight, transient beige/tan head. Aroma of cherry, brandy, oak. Maybe even vanilla. Med + body. Flavor is seemingly oxidized - old barrels? - there’s cherry and oak. Mildly tart. Brandy dances in the background. Nice. I’d recommend more cherries and fresher, soaked barrels.

Pours hazy pear into a snifter. Bright white head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Funky summer fruit aromas. Dry with sweet hay and summer fruit upfront turning to tart peach before the lasting funky fuzz finish.

June 2015 bomber drunk 6/22/15
Absolutely cloudy pour, despite the beer resting cold for a week and a careful pour. But the large white head sits atop and slowly recedes to a good covering. Pale golden with white gold hues.
Lactic acid in the nose alerts to the acidity while fruity hops add a rarely seen element to the "style". It works well with the sour acids, bringing forth dry pineapple, mango and even passion fruit hints and adding lots of complexity. WIth some warming, however, the orange zest and light oak emerge, somewhat harrying the otherwise lighter, more playful hop and lactic notes. Seems like a bit more sweetness than I’d expect, based on the nose, though perhaps that’s just the richness from the oak.
The flavor, unfortunately, is dominated by the orange zest. After Night Shift orange zested the hell out of their much anticipated Cape Codder weisse, it was about a full year before the heavy handed orange zest finally faded and allowed the cranberries (which were supposed to be the center piece of the beer) to shine. Point being, I’m going to half to put a moratorium on brewers using orange zest, as obviously they don’t know their limits. Anyways, behind the orange zest you’ve got some fresh, heavily woody and toasty oakiness as well as light lactic sourness and grapefruity hops. The orange comes back on the finish and lingers. It dosent taste bad, just way too much of it.
Clean though, and so nice to try a Grimm beer not from the evil Paper City. As I said with Rainbow, I think their beers are incredibly ambitious and it would be nice to see what they could do with a classic example of a Belgian style. It’s good to push the envelope, but their beers have a lot more going on than they need to, most of the time. Furthermore, this beer could be a good deal more dry and crisp on the end. The hop flavor is nice, but this could use a good deal more bitterness from the hops or acidity from the lacto.
As an orange shandy though, this is near a 5.0

Pours hazy pale yellow into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Citrus and saltwater aromas. Sharp lemon and orange front to back and through the orange peel finish. Citrus bomb.

Draught at Lulus, 6/12/15 and again on 6/13/15
What a torture drinking this beer is. Grimm seems to be absolutely killing it with their beers. Yes, they have stupid names and are mostly the much maligned American Fruited Sour/American Wild Ale variety with a whole lot of moving parts, but they’re not over-the-top in either barrel, sourness or fruit, as far as the ones I’ve had (all 2 of them). So why a torture? Because they brew their beers at Paper City (half of them, havent tried their Beltway contracted beers yet) and you can taste it in the beer. I don’t know what it is that makes that brewery so distinctively awful, but there’s a heavy (this is going to sound pun-like) paper element to their beers. Like taking a sheet of loose leaf paper and chewing on it. It has both elements of that texture and flavor. Dosent matter what beer either; house beers, High and Mighty, they all have that slightly bland, washed-out, husky/papery character.
Anyhow, all that being said, these are about as good as you can hope for from this brewery. This one is incredibly bone dry, with light peach tartness mixing brilliantly with the lactic sourness. Hops add playful fruitiness to lighten the beer somewhat and it finishes moderately bitter with some scratchy graininess and light oak tannins. Good stuff, wish they would move their contract to Ipswich or even Buzzards Bay. Here’s hoping.