First we have the old Beau’s tractor burnin’ up the kick-ass-phalt with their juiced AF Hazy IPA. Now the tractor is out in the beery berry patch pickin’ raspberries and down at the brewery, tractor tread squeezin’ limes, for their Refresher. Or what they call a “fresh fruit beer”. But if we’re going to play the name game here’s how I look at it. If it walks like a sour and talks like a sour and smells like a sour and tastes like a sour, what would you call it? Ok I know it doesn’t walk or talk, it’s just an expression, dammit. But it sure smells and tastes like a sour, so I’m calling it a sour.
Sea-sick Toucan vs. smiling frosty Kool-Aid man.
Not to be confused with “Freshie”, the Canadian equivalent to Kool-Aid (it was cheaper too) that super sugar-charged Canadian kids from the 1950’s to 1980’s. Eventually the smiling condensation dripping round and smooth Kool-Aid pitcher won out over the ill looking and angular Freshie toucan.It could be that added Vitamin C that made Kool-Aid the healthy, or parent guilt free, alternative. Although I sure don’t remember any parental guilt trips when I was a kid. Back then parents didn’t worry about smoking or drinking while pregnant,* seatbelts, helmets while riding bikes, danger strangers (like the creepy Kool-Aid man for example), or a myraid of other modern day dangers.
So it’s a sunny day or perhaps more accurately a hazy smoky belle province forest fire wafting winds my way kind of day as the case may be. But my focus isn’t on the air quality index, it’s on the beer quality index. A hot day begs for a cold refresher by the pool, this is this beer’s calling. It’s raison d’etre.
It pours golden and bubbly, is that a touch of red I see or just my very active imagination? Call it a touch of red, a slightly rosy rosé, imagine that. It definitely has a raspberry sour aroma. And how does it taste? Raspberry, not an especially sweet fruit to start with, with the lime adding a tang. No doubt in my mind, this brew is a sour. The raspberry and lime is an interesting combo that makes for a tart tasty refreshing one, a sour that is. Best served frosty cold, that’s when this refresher is at it’s most refreshing.
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