It was another big beaked bird who was known to intone “follow your nose, it always knows”. Toucan Sam had the unique ability to smell Froot Loops from great distances.* However, we all know you can’t believe everything you see on TV, or in the papers, or on social media. But you can believe almost everything you read on this website!
Time for a Flamingo fact check. Toucans, like Flamingos, and most birds, have next to no sense of smell. However, some birds do smell, the Flamingo being one. Yes, if we were being totally honest, which is a hallmark of these reviews, Flamingos are a pretty bird, but they stink! Maybe it’s a good thing they can’t smell because they sure do. **
My BlackBerry Z10. Photo taken with an iPhone12.
Enough less than flattering Flamingo facts. Daft has seen fit to encourage us to follow our nose right to their Blackberry Sour IPA. Not our first adult beverage of the blackberry persuasion. New Ontario’s blackberry porter had me fondly reminiscing about my first cell phone. And Sea Change’s blackberry wheat had a fairy tale ending. Time to sample a snifter of sour.
A dark golden hazy presence, with some substance or substances, as the case may be. It has a super juicy IPA aroma, tropical and hopical, with a twang of tang in there somewhere. It does smell very tasty. First quaff confirms there is some sour power in this one, with lotsa juice to wake you up. The tropical juice has a tang to it with a blackberry backend bite. A lot going on here, but it is a balanced sequence, almost a flavour overload between the sour and the IPA. Is this level of intensity sustainable or will it wear thin?
I know it’s a blackberry sour but the blackberry finish seems a bit out of place with an otherwise fruitful nicely balanced super juicer sour. I reluctantly left the Blackberry behind to go with the times (and an iPhone). Maybe Daft should do the same with this brew.
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