The Granny Smith of fame and orchard.
Granny Smith cultivated them, René Magritte painted them, and the Beatles put them to music. * Sometimes used in ciders,** now Whitewater is turning them into beer. A green apple sour is the sour of the hour. I have tried peach, psychic pineapple, grape and mango sours. I have sampled bumbleberry, raspberry, cranberry, strawberry and blueberry sours. Then there was the CA POG, pomegranate, orange and guava all rolled into one sour. But I must admit, a green apple sour sounds like a particularly dour sour to me.
Golden and semi clear, with a brilliant white head, it looks every inch like a beer of distinction. Definitely a sour tangy fruit aroma. Wow, that’s a pucker up buttercup brew. Super sour as in level of sourness as opposed to a premature rating. So tart and tangy it’s hard to tell the fruit by taste, but with such a sour tang green apple makes sense. As you drink it you become somewhat accustomed to the tart tanginess but make no mistake, this green apple sour is hard core.
A wake up call for the casual sour sampler, this one is a sour lovers sour.
*Editor’s Comment: Maria Ann Smith (known locally as Granny Smith) began cultivating the green apple that eventually bore her name in Australia in the 1860’s. “La Jeu de Morre” (The Game of Death) is a 1964 painting by surrealist René Magritte, one of a few of his paintings to feature a green apple. Perhaps the most famous is “The Son of Man” in which a green apple obscures the face of a man in a business suit and bowler hat. “Le Jeu de Morre” was owned by Paul McCartney who said it was the inspiration for the Beatles record label graphic for Apple Records.
Perhaps prophetic or possibly purposeful, Magritte died not long after painting this.
**Editor’s Comment: I wonder if the apple growing industry has an In-Ciders Report?
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