Midnight Sun Good Mojo

Brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Muddy chestnut brown with just a small island of bubbles settling on top. Nose was interesting nothing other than Kalamata olives with some dark woody accents...which at that point, I wasn’t sure I liked until had a taste of the beer...Uniquely thin bodied vinous flavors, sweet grapes at the start but ending on a dry note. This beer was as clean as clean can be from first sip to the very finish...not a single off flavor floating around anywhere. My only potential issue was that it might be a tad too thin and one dimensional but on the other hand, that just may be the appeal.

Sampled at the Second Anual Stone Sour Festival on 7/20/2008. Worthy of the two tickets. Very nice sour ale. Flavors of tart crab apple and cherries. One of my favorites.

Rating # 900! Tap @ Stone Sour Fest 2008. One of the better sours at the fest. Pours a hazed medium brown with a thin off white ring. Nose of tart berry fruits, flavor was a strange but awesome combo of tart cherries and strawberries with some oak and chocolate.

On tap at Stone’s Sour Fest ’08. Dark, amber color. Sweetish. Mellow. Dark fruits, cherries, strawberries. Some oak in the aroma. Thick body. Excellent. 4.5-4.7. I heard this beer took 7 years to make as it includes a 7yr old strawberry lambic and a 5yr old cherry lambic, and it was one of the most expensive kegs at $200-$300/5gallon. Yow! 2 tickets=$6/4oz taster.

Draft @ 2nd Annual Stone Sour fest. Thanks to wetherel for snagging this for me when he thought the keg was going to blow. Pours dark, nose is tart and interesting. Taste is sweet and tart and overall pretty nic.e

Thanks to TomDecapolis for sharing this treat. Poured brownish amber in color with a thin tan head. Aroma of strawberries and brett mostly, but notes of other fruits such as cherries and apples. Tastes of strawberries, sour cherries, light chocolate, funk, and other misc. fruits. Complex brew that was very enjoyable. Thanks again Tom!!!

Big Thanks to TomDecapolis for sharing this bomber. Pours almost muddled rusty amber with a thin head. Aroma is slightly acidic, also some green apple acetaldehyde, musty strawberry, tart green aplle skin, light acetic acid and vinegar, with an oxidized caramel malt sweetness which reminded me of Veritas 003 a bit which we had in the same night. Fruity acetic flavor, almsot like rspberries, old musty barn and farmhouse, pedio- cherry pie character and sournes in the end which was more like the cuvee de tomme (batch 1). Has some residual body and could become a bit more sour as it ages.

Poured a hazy brown red color with a small, creamy, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of leather, brett, some caramel, dried fruits, toast, and strawberry. Taste of sour cherries, nuts, strawberries, some caramel, and a tart finish. Thanks Tom!