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I have been remiss in mentioning Dogfish Head beers of late. But an opportunity to rectify the situation has arisen with a new beer/wine hybrid named Mixed Media.
This new beer from Calagione et al is made up of 51% beer grain, and 49% from Viognier grape must from Alexandria Nicole Cellars.
Sounds like a great middle beverage in a tasting of both beer and wine.
This wine meets beer from Field Recordings Wines is more accurately a Chenin Blanc meets Gose. It pours a sharp pee yellow. To me this is wine with grapefruit rind. A rind that is accentuated by a liberal dose of sea salt. Two others tried it and said it was more hoppy and 50/50 wine to beer.
Either way, this experimental can that I was given when I visited the Paso Robles brewery last month is not boring at all. From the super cool koozie as label design with all the grape, vineyard (Jurassic!) , barrel and beer-y ingredients plus the canned on date on one side and some Keith Haring style art on the other, this is a thought out limited edition. I wish most beers had this detail with what they are made of.
When I hit the lottery, I am joining the can club for sure. Experiments like this may be polarizing but they are worth trying.