Farmer Steve: Looks like a goddamn can of WD40.*
Me: It’s a fruit sour.
Farmer Steve: You’re drinking whatever you find under the sink, aren’t you.
Me: It’s a Golden fruit sour aged in Oak Barrels.
Farmer Steve: I knew it was only a matter of time, you’re into the cleaning products now. How about a Windex chaser.
Me: It’s a sour, really.
Small pony optional
Ok, Farmer Steve has a point, the can does bear a passing resemblance to can of WD40. But that’s where the similarities end. This Small Pony Barrel Works fancy pants oak barrel aged golden sour is packed with pureed pineapple, passionfruit and mango. It’s an alliteration in a can. The on the can instructions tell me to shake twice and pour once and drink at least 2m from a small pony. Not having a small pony at my disposal I drank it 4m from my big screen TV while watching the Blue Jays unable to close without their closer. A 9th inning fade and fold like 10 year old origami.
As for this sour smoothie, it’s an extra pulp pour, thicker than a sumo wrestler and as orange as an orchard of oranges, orangier. The orangiest beer I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a few.
Knock Knock, Who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange ya glad is not WD40.
An aroma of tart citrus sour with spices, complex and confounding. Just like the aroma, a very tart citrus tropical fruit extravaganza with some spices, very busy. A thick smoothie mouthfeel. It’s super juicy, a pint of puree. No scurvy on this voyage. Banana? What I thought was clove spices I think is now banana, that’s bananas. I didn’t think this brew could get anymore fruitful but it just did. Mega citrus for sure, definitely purée, no farm fresh fruit here.
It started out as a big juicy fruit salad sour, tart with flavour to savour. Part way through I realized I was in too deep, the flavour was over the top and I was in over my head. Too thick, too juicy. I was pounded by the pineapple, overpowered by the passion fruit, mauled by the mango, and battered by the banana. You guessed it, the key to my survival was to drink my way out.
An interesting super fruity tart sour, as advertised. A savour then survive sequence.
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