SA Cranberry Lambic: He LIKES it! He LIKES it!
Randal wrote:
> Early last week I picked up the SA Winter Classics or Holiday Sampler
> or whatever it's called.
>
> [...]
> I pulled the Cranberry Lambic first from the sampler pack and cracked
> it open. It looked pretty much the same as it always had, sitting in
> that Duvel glass.
>
> Aroma is of Ocean-spray cranapple and sweetness, with that lingering
> brett-type character ever so slight in the background. Well, I was
> prepared to take my medicine this year. The initial sip and no wince!
Betcha it doesn't hold a very weak candle to Cantillon's Spuyten Devil,
aged on whole cranberries. Or Unibroue's Ephemere Cranberry, FTM.
And I'm not bagging on SA beers in general; the Utopias is pretty spiffy
stuff, as long as someone else is paying. Last time I had it, someone
else was. Thankew Jeebus.
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dgs
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