Indeed Mango Helio

Indeed Wooden Soul Mango Helio Brett Saison. Wood barrel aged beer brewed with mango. Bottle Conditioned. 8% Alc. by Vol. Brewed and bottled by Indeed Brewing Company, Minneapolis, MN.

Highly hazed, bright orange, short-lived ivory head.

In the nose: sweet mango notes butt heads with the sour. Wild funk emerges from the fruit.

In the mouth: More sour than sweet now, but not as puckering as some would wish. Me, I'm fine with it. Quite fine. We don't need our palates attacked with fierce acidity all the time, do we? Medium bodied, quite consumable.



Whenever some folks hear "mango" they ask: "it's not too sweet, is it?" No one wants "too sweet", but they forget that brewers know what they're doing, and will rarely produced that "too sweet" that they're so afraid of, and in this case, have got it quite right. Not too sour, not too sweet, not too fruity, neither.

I like it. One thoroughly complex and intriguing barrel-aged fruit sour saison. A lot going on there, and a lot to like.