an eye to summer

It's not beer, but it's good to have a little something different every once in a while.  Kopparberg was sitting among the lambics in the shop and the strawberry lime blend called to me more than the usual cherry (I'd had a Belgian cherry beer just a couple of days before anyway).

The smell is very sweet, like strawberry candy.  There's hardly any citrus at all in it.  The taste is also sweet, but there's a good amount of sour underneath, and once swallowed there's a tiny snap of bitter at the back of the tongue.  It hangs around in the throat for a while, a little sticky and syrupy.  Although pleasant tasting, it's not as clean as I prefer for refreshment after work or on a warm evening.

The light doesn't do it justice.  It looks almost like Cherry 7-Up