This is my third and final Odd Side beer. The first one was tremendous, and the second one hit the average range, but it was just barely inside. Either way, after the heights of the first beer, the second one was definitely a disappointment. I only currently have three of these to go on, so this will set the tone for the brewery itself. If this can rise to meet the first, this is a great brewery that occasionally has a slightly below average beer. If this is an average beer, it's an average brewery that managed to get one good beer. If this is a bad beer, we have an inconsistent brewery that we can't trust.
First sip is strangely dry with orange, grapefruit, pineapple, and papaya. I'm not going to say that the sip is an instantaneous loser, but I'm also not going to say it immediately hit it out of the park. Instead, we are somewhere in between, and it seems like it's leaning toward not great. The dryness really undermines the juiciness that should go with the fruits, and I'm not exactly sure how they even did that. Either way, we don't judge based on a sip.
Tip-in is citronella candles (even the wax) with grapefruit and papaya under a carbonation tingle. The middle rises, and I don't know where this was in the sip, with the juiciness gushing from the orange, grapefruit, pineapple, papaya, mango, and it is joined by some honey. The finish is once again dry, and it adds some bitterness, but it is much more satisfying after that solid center.
Bottom Line: Drink it right, and this rewards you.
3.75/5
