Broadening Our Horizons VII

Today's Happy Hour libation:

That's a Gurkha Liga C-10 microbatch sitting in the ashtray... already one-third gone. This cigar is good stuff, by the way.

(secret message to Our Favo(u)rite UK Reader:  note the yellow tin in the background.) 


Update, 1615 hrs:  I'd characterize the brew as "beer for folks who don't really like beer."  From a review at Beer Advocate, selected at random:

Poured from 12oz. bottle into pilsner glass.

Beer is a cloudy yellow-orange, with visible effervescence. Head is cream colored and is about a centimeter thick when poured, and it maintains this thickness for a considerable amount of time. Lacing is thick and stays right where the beer leaves it.

This is definitely a cherry brew. Maraschino cherries dominate the scent, with an undertone of lemony acid underneath. Some wheat character is barely noticable.

First taste has no surprises. Cherry, cherry, cherry, with a touch of lemon and - you guessed it - the faintest touch of wheat character. Finish is kinda fizzy, with a slight bitterness that fades quickly, noticable wheat on the palate lingers. As the palate adjusts and the beer warms slightly, the beer gets a touch more sour, which helps to, but doesn't quite succeed, in shifting the cherry flavor from a childish maraschino to a more adult bing.

This beer is extremely light and fizzy. Between the carbonation and the extremely understated beeriness in favor of fruit, it is not unlike drinking a cherry cream soda.

It would seem at first that, as similar to soda as this beer is, that it would be easy to slam these all night. However, from experience I can tell you this beer loses its novelty fairly quickly. While one of these on occassion (sic) is a light and unchallenging (sic) treat, drinking more than one in a session proves a challenge.

Serving type: bottle

Yup... what they said... or: more beer I'll be looking to give away.  I followed this brew up with a 1554, which is MUCH more to my liking.