Today's sampling comes from Winkler, Manitoba's Heritage Farms Brewing, which currently has their beer brewed over at One Great City Brewing until their brewery is finished (which could be any day now by the time this review comes out). I'm checking out their Bumper Crop Lemonade Sour, which is described as sour and lemony.. deal with it. 5% ABVAppearance: Very cloudy, opaque yellowish-orange body with a light amount of head that diminishes pretty quickly.
Aroma: Lemon is the dominate aroma in this beer, followed by some sort of sweetness.. wait, this is a lemonade, so gotta be some sugar in there! It's a tad grain forward but it's mostly tart and sweet.
Taste: There's a definite tartness that hits the palate whenever I take a sip - moderately sharp from lemon. I get a bit of a graininess from the barley, a hint of straw, but for the most part - this is a tart, lemon-forward beer with a tad bit of sweetness to it.
Overall Thoughts: This is the kind of Sour I can appreciate, it's not making my face pucker up, it's pretty straight forward, and it's tart but not overly. The aroma had a good amount of sweetness that I didn't really get in the taste, but overall - this is a solid lemon-dominant beer. I feel like this one could be more popular in the early summer rather than in the harvest season - a definite Shandy/Radler kind of beer that pairs well for the sweltering hot Manitoban evenings at the patio or the farm.
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