Iron Paw, Dave's BrewFarm, growler, specs to be revealed later. Let's just drink this semi-blind and see what happens.
Out of the growler and into the glass, it's a beautiful opaque dark amber-ish hue with a large head that drifts down, leaving lace and small dotted lagoons here and there.
Aroma shows sweetness and sour. Sugar and fruit. Belgian influence and ingredients, perhaps. This is probably one of the funky, pureed pineapple and Thai sugar mash-ups. Or did I just memorize the description? Either claim is valid. Plenty of wildness matching the sweet and the fruit. Delectable.
Taste: Great grit on the palate, very full-ish body, solid, hefty body, altogether excellent in the mouth, with lingering traces of fruit and sugar. Investigating further, big fruit zest, doses of citrus, shots of sugar, blasts of Belgian yeast. Definitely delicious. Lays long on the palate, makes a happy home there. Tasty as heck.
Okay, now is the time when I crack out the real Farmer Dave description of this beer named for his fiercely protective puppies.
" 8.3% ABV. "If Border collies had thumbs…" Pils, Melanoidin and Ashburne Milkd malts. Merkur and Bramling Cross hops. A late addition of Thai palm sugar and pureed pineapple. Fermented with a Belgian yeast strain. "…they would rule the world."
Maybe I stored this in my memory, but it's also a safe bet that I really tasted it, too. It's there, and it's every so delicious. Another weird and wonderful ale from the LaBrewatory.
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