Cuvee Series One (Oak Aged Series)
Got this one in a trade with spacecoyote. Thanks! Appearance: Murky and cloudy with a body the color of apricot skins. Pours with practically no head, although carbonation levels are fine. Smell: Fruity and ridiculously sweet. Smells like dried mangoes, dried peaches, overripe, nearly rotting apricots and diabetes. This is going to be challenging. Taste & mouthfeel: Insanely, horribly sweet up front with nothing balancing the sweetness. Fucking hell. It's like someone pureed a bunch of dried fruit and added a few shots of whiskey for texture and bonus alcohol burn. And I'm not talking regular dried fruit here, I'm talking the shit that's dried and then covered in even more sugar; dried fruit for people that don't value their health and teeth and have no concept of insulin levels. Oak is present only in the form of astringent tannins at the end, which almost quells the sweetness, but it's really more like chewing on a sugar-coated log. I've never been a big fan of Southern Tier and their under-attenuated, syrupy sweet beers, but this one is truly atrocious. Best avoided unless you've got a sweet tooth that knows no bounds.