Ok, so my beach experience was soooo two weeks ago, and I know I need to catch up, so I plan on spending Easter weekend doing exactly that! I ended up cracking open the Mosaic while playing bucket pong. If you've never heard of bucket pong, it's like beer pong, except you use five gallon buckets filled with water, tennis balls instead of ping pongs, and everything is on the ground. Pretty different experience and pretty fun.
Again, poured into your standard pint glass, I was greeting with a amber and garnet colored brew, with two fingers of beige head. Retention was excellent, with the lacing sticking along the sides of the glass in nice big splotches. I detected aromas of earthy hops, light citrus hops as well, including tangerine, maybe some mango. I also detected some spice, maybe from the rye. There's also a light caramel undertone.
A lot of the same aromas came through with the taste. The spice and graininess from the rye, the caramel malts, the earthy hops. There's a light hop kick at the end, but I could compare to the pale ale variety, not extremely bitter at all. It doesn't taste like your typical amber, but I'm sure it wasn't meant to taste like your typical amber. Medium carbonation and medium bodied, I thought it sat just right where it needed to be. I thought this one was pretty good, but it didn't wow or blow me away. Not bad for a side project though.
Grade: B-
Price Paid: $7.99 (22 oz bomber)
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