Juicy Fruit, sounds delicious. Just like the gum only with alcohol. Chew on that! And from the great team at Brock Street no less, the self-proclaimed most refreshing street in Canada. Sounds like a can’t miss winner. Unfortunately no chicken dinner tonight.
Sickly sweet and terrifying
My concerns commenced with an over-the-top pour, literally. Our experiences with foam fest fiascos have not been positive, to say the least. This brew started out with a dense head of foam with a life of its own reminiscent of the Stay-Puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters.* And for a COM beer reviewer equally as terrifying. A foam puff of fluff that wasn’t going to settle for anything, let alone anybody. And below the towering froth a crystal clear juice like brew, no haziness to be found.
The aroma was hard to discern through the Styrofoam insulation between me and what I can only assume was beer. Not having the patience of Job, or anyone with reasonable patience, I finally quaffed through the froth. Wow, first swig is super juice as in too much, a pint of pure puree, headstrong in more ways than one. Aggressive juice and bitters that are too juicy, too fruity, and too boozy. It eventually settled into a free for all fruit with boozy hoppy bitters. I don’t think the banana off taste was the fruit they were going for.
I bought it directly from the brewer during a recent and most enjoyable super suds Brock Street visit and had it in the beer fridge for about 2 months, chilled to the exact manufacturer’s recommended temperature. But without a doubt it went bad on me. How do I know for sure? A fruit fly flew over my drink and as soon as it caught a whiff of jiff it hightailed it out of there in a haphazard booze induced flight pattern. And the taste of course.
Luckily I had some Juicy Fruit gum handy to cleanse my palate. Thank goodness I could chew on that!
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