SorA'LaMA' gulp! Apple beer

"Gulp" is right, after my last experience (review upcoming) with this mob's frankly unlikeable barleywine.

I seem to have misplaced the image here which would normally invalidate the review .. but then, I feel it's kind of like a public service to review this one anyway. You'll see why. Pretty bloody elaborate packaging around the label above in any case, winelike plastic wrap over the bottletop for a beer with the mighty 4.2% abv.

This is supposed to be an apple beer of some description, with a nose of biscuit and lemon for the most part. Little bit of sweet apple around the edges if you search, and visually it's there certainly. Massive chunks - less chunks, more meteorites really - swirling around in this.

It pours with a pretty good head actually considering the above, though the chunks don't blend in even with agitation.

In practice .. 'lagerish' is the word that comes to mind. The mouthfeel's not bad but the contents thereof are bitey metallic offerings, the burnt and charred remnants of ales sadly lost. Bit of apple in there but covered in a blanket of things unwell.

To be honest I don't really see what the point of this was as a commercial release above and beyond the brewhouse 'experiment'. Worse than a cider and worse than a beer.

Hmm. 3.0