Untitled Art. Rocket Popsicle Sour (Ale)

Untitled Art. Rocket Popsicle Sour (Ale).
Version 2. Berliner Style Weisse Ale with lemon grass, cherry juice, and blueberry juice.
brewed and canned by Untitled Art, Waunakee, WI.
5 % ABV.

On the one hand, I've been trying to stretch out and try some of these hot, new breweries that everyone raves about, despite the prices that scare me off, and that they often make those "non-beer" styles that are so hip and hot and that I hate.

On the other hand, as mentioned above, I really hate $18 4-packs, and I totally despise these non-beer fruity sour styles.

On another hand, that really was just two sides of the same hand. Or the same side of one hand?

I'm confused.

Confused about why I bought this. I'm taking this time to review it with can #2 and then I don't know what I'll do with cans 3 or 4. Mix them with Gatorade, maybe?

Crystal clear, Windex blue, no head at all.

In the nose: Sweet, fruity, artificial. Not a trace of tartness. Darned if it doesn't smell like a popsicle, though. Once more, the infantilization of beer. Making alcoholic the things we enjoyed as children.

In the mouth: Uh-oh, here we go. Fruity. Flimsy. No tartness, no sourness. It looks like the "rocket popsicle" ("bomb pop" to many) and tastes like one, but is only slightly sour. On second sip, that's being generous. I don't know how they had the chutzpah to release this thing.

This thing is so devoid of life, of authenticity, so far from any kind of beer that anyone knows of, it leaves me utterly hollow. There is nothing here, but the gimmick itself, to look blue and taste like a popsicle. I'm not sure who wants that, but I'll trade them those last two cans. For anything.
Any flavor that it starts out with disappears with a quickness.
Looks like mouthwash, taste has none of it's charm.

This is completely bullshit.

Blech.

I'm considering drain-pouring this.
The more I drink, the sadder I get.

Addendum: I didn't drain-pour, I added orange juice to the remainder, turning it a lovely teal / torquoise color. My soul restored by this hybrid. It tasted like something, at long last.

Addendum the Second: In a corner of the great swamp of the Internet called Untappd, I am once again the grumpy curmudgeon. I gave this one 2/5, but the average rating is 4/5. I am strictly in the minority. Here are some pulls from the peanut gallery:
"Tastes like it's name. Yummy. Is this really beer?" --Don B.
"Very sweet, but absolutely true to what they're trying to achieve"--Jamie S.
Question, if they call it "sour", but it's "very sweet", how is it true to what they're trying to achieve?
"Everything I was hoping for and more, bomb pop in beer form 100!"--Nicole R.
Finally one I agree with: "Tastes too much like Kool-aid and not enough like beer to me"--Ryan.
I like you Ryan, we should have a beer together some time.
Further on, Christopher T, reveals the following: "Super weird, but also super mellow. Makes sense flavor wise now that I know it’s actually a seltzer base."
If this is so, why does the label say Berliner Weisse Ale? That makes it more fucked up.
Daniel S. is confused: "Technically a Berliner I guess? Tastes more like a white claw. I don’t hate it tho"...I do hate it, tho, I'm not ashamed to admit that.

Untitled Art Hazier Triple IPA

Untitled Art Hazier Triple IPA. 9.5 % ABV.
Untitled Art, Waunakee, WI.

And here we have the first beer from Untitled Art here in the Nib. I don't see them often at some of the stores I frequent, and I tend to skip anything that says "milkshake" or "smoothie" on the label. Or "puff". That's how it is, folks, deal with it.

This one says IPA, which I like, and tripel, which is sometimes good, and also, at the front, Hazy(Hazier), which I'm less thrilled about. It was more expensive than I like, more than $18/4-pack, but I felt like, heck, let's go in all the way with this one.

But before I begin, I went looking for more information on this particular beer, which is something that I do. What the can tells us is: Triple India Pale Ale. Brewed + Canned by Untitled Art, Waunakee, WI. And: Artist: Stephanie Kamen. So, I took to their website, and under the heading of "Beer", there are three options to click on: Artists, Collaborators, Distributors. There is no place to learn even the names of their beers, or to read any words about the recipes, ingredients, etc. But I kind of want to know some of that stuff. And then I found this, on Untappd:

Our goal is to make new and exciting beer styles available in Wisconsin. Called "Untitled Art", the beers are presented without explanation allowing the drinker to formulate their own opinion. In a market filled with exhausting back stories and kitschy names, we strip this away and let the beer speak for itself. With creative influence from Levi Funk, Untitled Art is similar to a gypsy brewery. We brew what we want, when we want it.

Okay, that's cool. It's just odd that Untappd lists 121 beers from this company, but their website won't tell me anything about any of them. That's just a little backwards. There's a lot about their sparkling waters, though.

On with the beer:

Hazy, yeah. Bright golden hue. Slim white head.

In the nose: Big citrus. Traces of sour/tart, verifiably funky. Complexity abounds, outside of the fruit.

In the mouth: Grapefruit, lemon, and orange, with an extra-urgent pungency I can't quite trace. Alcohol content reveals itself early on, limning the length of the palate, sending the fuzzies up into the brain. Flavor remains fruity and juicy, and never remotely bitter, with a side of scalding booze.

I'm not 100% sure that I'm into it. But that's what you get with your triple IPA, right? I do wish it were more of an IPA. There's some bitterness here, but not enough for my liking.

Well, I drank down 4 of them without complaint. But, I won't hand over $20 that easily again.