North Country Cherry Garcia

Brewed by North Country Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania USA

Sample at the brewpub. Cloudy yellow pour with a thin white head. Creamy malt and cherry nose. Creamy malt flavor with lots of sweet cherries before a semi-dry finish.

On tap at North Country. Aroma of cherry Sucrets and pie filling, musky and sweet with some cherry bark. Medium amber haze with light white head. Medium-light body with medium carbonation. Starts mild with light acidity, some beany character, and sweet cherry pie filling. Mild finish, very light overall and finish. Refreshing summer quaff.

One of this brewpubs notorious fruit beers. They have some good ones. Has a pinkish champagne hue to this beer. Barely any head tho there is a froth on top. Sweet and sour cherries aroma. The taste is definately cherries, perhaps like cherry flavoring that needs a little sweetner. Is not syrupy sweet by no means and does not taste like a wine cooler, those are sweeter than this. Leaves an interesting lingering cherry taste on the palate. Really has more alky taste than the 4.4% listed here. Finish is quite interesting, at times it seems artificial and at other times it comes on like sour cherries freshly picked off a cherry tree. The cherry flavor seems a bit out of place but I thought this to be a good representation of a fruit beer when compared to others in this style.