CRAZY
BEARD ~ WILD APPLE ALE
Sampled from a tin, this beverage was truly confounding. It was in the beer section of my local liquor store but was clearly not a beer. In some liquor stores it is in the cider section, but it did not taste like a cider either. Apparently it is made with barley but no hops. The printing on the tin was almost unreadable, so ingredients were near impossible to figure out - I had to go to the net to find out that it contained carbonated water and contained added sugar. Sugar was not added for bottle conditioning since it comes in a tin and the brewers have already added carbonation in the water. The beverage had a huge nose of sweet green apples- jolly rancher like green apples, and apple juice. It was clear and golden yellow with no carbonation or head. It tasted much like it smelled, an apple jolly rancher. The apple taste was artificial and the sweetness became cloying. Apparently it is supposed to contain wild apples from Northern Ontario, but I could taste no evidence of real apples. It did not taste like cider at all, but rather old apple juice. I could not taste any evidence of alcohol. The aftertaste was sweet with a little spice. It turns out this is an upstart from a few kids out of university trying to complete with mediocre fruit beers and coolers put out by the macro brewers. Personally really not to my taste.
5.2% from Oakville (Toronto)
Sampled from a tin, this beverage was truly confounding. It was in the beer section of my local liquor store but was clearly not a beer. In some liquor stores it is in the cider section, but it did not taste like a cider either. Apparently it is made with barley but no hops. The printing on the tin was almost unreadable, so ingredients were near impossible to figure out - I had to go to the net to find out that it contained carbonated water and contained added sugar. Sugar was not added for bottle conditioning since it comes in a tin and the brewers have already added carbonation in the water. The beverage had a huge nose of sweet green apples- jolly rancher like green apples, and apple juice. It was clear and golden yellow with no carbonation or head. It tasted much like it smelled, an apple jolly rancher. The apple taste was artificial and the sweetness became cloying. Apparently it is supposed to contain wild apples from Northern Ontario, but I could taste no evidence of real apples. It did not taste like cider at all, but rather old apple juice. I could not taste any evidence of alcohol. The aftertaste was sweet with a little spice. It turns out this is an upstart from a few kids out of university trying to complete with mediocre fruit beers and coolers put out by the macro brewers. Personally really not to my taste.
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