Brewery: Samuel Smith Brewery

Name: Sam’l Smith Organic Cherry

Style: Fruit ale

Origin: England

Bottle: 1Pt 2.7Oz.

ABV: 5.10%

Appearance: a lovely dark orange to red-orange shade (depending on lighting) with numerous streams of bubbles and a thin layer of carbonation atop.

Pours: fairly easily with a 1/4” layer of foam making a brief appearance.

Smell: almost a pie cherry smell or a cherry candy.

Taste: there’s sweetness; and there’s an almost acidic tanginess. I’m not getting a harmony here. They’re not playing well together. It’s like some mad, demonic waltz with both cloven-footed dancers spinning ‘round trying to be the one leading.

Mouthfeel: Other Sam Smith products I’ve had have had more of a noticeably syrupy aspect, and yet I almost want to qualify this one as saccharine. Harshly artificial as well as if they went around to pharmacies collecting all the outdated cherry cough syrup they could get their hands on.

Rating: 3.8 Yeah, I’m not getting pleasantly fruity ale with this one, just a sensation like a mouth full of chemicals I’m quite sure the WHO banned in 1957. I’ve had 1/4 of the bottle and the prospect of having more makes me cringe with despair.