Summer is a-comin', as they say, and although I could have stout all the time, I feel like I should try new things just to be able to recommend to the lightweights. Be Hoppy regularly has unusual brews, although they tend to be pricier than the normal craft stuff. They sure look appetizing, though, and at a time of realignment with the future you might as well treat yourself to something special. It might come as a surprise that I didn't choose a black beer or other heavy, flavorful, complexly put together brew, but I did pick up a barrel aged Lervig. The brewery alone should be a guarantee. Specifically, it's a foeder aged sour, with apricots. Called, simply, Foeder Apricots.
It looks a lot like orange soda, although the fizz doesn't back off as fast as soda fizz does. There is a definite fruity tang to the aroma, with that gnarl of fermentation hitting the back of the nose. It feels like it should be a sweeter beer, but the choice of barrels for aging might give it a more sour and funkier bent. Yep, definitely sour there, but there isn't the weird heavy woodiness that some of these foeder aged beers have had in my experience. I have to search hard for any wood in the flavor at all actually, and maybe that aftertaste has a little self-delusion in it. Although the scent with its rounded fruit coolness makes me think of wintery desserts, the beer is very summery in feel. It's light, with just enough sour to be perky, no sticky afterfeel, quite a nice drink for an overly sunny afternoon.
Supplier: Be Hoppy
Price: €11.95
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