Wiseacre "Bow Echo" IPA

I dunno. Do bows themselves echo? If you launch an arrow, it makes a noise, and presumably that noise will echo off of things, if it is loud enough compared to ambient noise. Still, echoes are not the thing that bows are famous for, right? I don't understand the name.

The gold beer is as hazy as the Wiseacre clan claims. The reasonable head settles to a relatively even mix of medium and small bubbles. The aroma is a combination of fruit rinds with a missing funk. For some reason, I expected a funk or a musk or a dank or some other pall to be all over the beverage. It might be the can art that put me in the mood of someone who likes left hand cigarettes. 

First sip is not quite as funk free as the aroma. The fruit juices are as murky as the hazy beverage looks, and the funk is an uneven layer sitting on top. Why uneven? Have you ever had beer with a funk? Then you know the funk just can't stop movin'. 

Tip-in is tart and funky with grapefruit and starfruit right up front. The middle is a stinging of carbonation along the top of the mouth with the fruits being joined by some tangerine and orange. The finish is dry and tart, and I'm just not enthralled.

Bottom Line: Middle of the road.

2.5/5