Fruitlands Mai Tai Edition

Review Date 6/26/2021 By John Staradumsky

What “gose” great with a Gose? How about-another Gose! Such was the case for me in early April, when I had just polished off a (5 year old) can of Uinta Ready Set Gose and followed it up with a Modern Times Fruitlands Mai Tai Edition. Modern Times calls this a fruited sour gose; you could call it a gose or a fruit beer and not really be wrong either way.

I have to admit: I just love these towering 19.2-ounce cans of beer (how I bought my Fruitlands Mai Tai Edition). Halfway between a kinger (a 16-ounce can) and a bomber (22-ounce bottle), it’s a little over a beer and a half, and for a refreshing beer like this one, there’s just enough to make me happy.

From the can label:

Fruitlands is tart, fruity, & frighteningly delicious. The sour, salty base beer lays down a stellar foundation for heavy doses of orange, lime, & pineapple, yielding a ridiculously tasty wall-to-wall tropical fiesta. It’s a marvelous mix of elements that collides with your mouth like a fruit-filled asteroid of flavor traveling at the supersonic speed of party.

Ingredients from the can label:

Orange Lime Pineapple fruits

Two Row White Wheat Flaked Wheat malts

Modern Times Fruitlands Mai Tai Edition has an alcohol content of 4.8% by volume with 10 IBUs and I paid $5.40 for my can from Craftshack. The brewery will sell you 8 cans for $44 (which is ten cents more a can than I paid) and Total Wine sells it for $5.29 a can. Just not in Georgia. All in all, I would say I did not do bad pricewise. My can is stamped CANNED ON 04/27/2020 and I drank it on 04/04/21. I actually bought it on June 5th of 2020 and got it about a week later, so the aging here was on my part. The beer held up perfectly.

Modern Times Fruitlands Mai Tai Edition pours to a cloudy yellow color with a thick fluffy white head and a nose of tart lime and bright fruity pineapple Taking a sip, the beer is light to medium in body up front, about right for a Gose with some crackery wheat notes and a mouthful of tropical fruit flavor. The pineapple and orange jump right out and grab your tongue, holding on for all they’re worth until the tart sour lime takes over in the finish. That finish becomes even more sour, and the salt shows up to accent the finish perfectly.

Very good, very fruity, very refreshing on a warm spring Easter day.

And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled, Canned

(D)=Draft

 

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