Unplugged Cranbic Ale
Picked up a couple 4-packs in Milwaukee this week, about $9 each. Upon trying my first bottle, I find that I lucked into buying one of the best beers I've found so far in 2010. This stuff is so damn tasty, and just after drinking a Founders Nemesis, another lucky find. The beer is reddish orange, clear, with a thin pink-tinted head, no lacing that I could see. The aroma is dark fruit (obviously it must be cranberries, but it smells like plums) and light bret funk, a little oak barrel. The taste is also outstanding, sweet cranberry juice with light malts and funky lambic flavors. This is definitely among the best fruit lambics I've had, especially from the US. Very accessible, this is more sweet than sour. Could use more bret character maybe, but really this is probably more refreshing as is.