This is a spontaneously fermented beer, which means this beer does not have yeast added to it, instead the beer is fermented with an open top allowing wild yeasts to work on the beer. This is an old way of making beer from before people knew much about how yeast works. This style is often called a lambic, but I don't see this noted on the bottle.
This beer smells like cherry pie filling, there is a slight high alcohol smell too, but mainly cherries. The color is a clear red that looks like cherry juice. For being a beer with such a strong cherry notes there is a nice ring of foam on the top of the glass.
The taste is also full of cherries, tart cherries. The tartness in the beer drys my mouth like the bitterness of a hoppy IPA. This beer is spontaneously fermented, which tends to be more sour than traditional fermented beers, and this matches well with the sour cherries. I can't taste any hops or malt in the beer, but the bottle claims they are there. Sometimes when a beer has cherries in it the result is a beer that tastes like cough syrup, and that taste is not coming through on this beer
The bottle's tag line is "Beer with Cherry Juice added" and that is what the beer tastes like. This doesn't taste much like a normal beer, with all the cherry flavor, and the spontaneous fermentation. But sometimes a beer that doesn't taste normal is a good change. I wouldn't expect to drink very many of these, but it sure is tasty.
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