 Thanks for checking out this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. I have just showered because I was at the gym working out and as per an article I read recently, thank you to Colin Norman, it was saying that beer is a really good thing to drink after a workout because of all the nutrients, nutrients, minerals and vitamins available in beer. So why not have a beer after my shower, after my workout? I'm going to do it. What I have today is by Sudwork Brewing, which is out of Davis, California. I believe that Sudwork is the brewery where all the students in the brewing program from University of California, Davis, go to intern when they're getting to the end of their program. They do have a regular brewmaster there but then they have a bunch of the students working. So, very interesting. So this is by Sudwork. It's their Funke Hopfarm, which is a play on funky. It is a dry hopped sour saison. It is a Cessar 6.5% alcohol by volume and it's dry hopped with Nelson Sovin, Citra and Simcoe hops. So sounds good, sour, saison, Citra, Simcoe, Nelson Sovin, sounding good. Oh, I should show you. Look, it's some farming bears. Not like the most exciting label art, but it's label art. Oh, yeah, pouring very orange-ish with a little bit of a head to it. Oh, very, very clear. I would have expected some sediment going on in this, like some decent sediment. But no, I mean, yeah. Wow, it looks like an IPA, basically. Very interesting. Let me smell. Ooh, I get the Citra and the Simcoe and Nelson Sovin got a nice hoppy, citrusy aroma to it. A little bit of a caramel-y aspect as well. Some grapefruit in there. The dry hopping is really coming through in the nose, like crazy. And then it's got that nice sourness. It's got a very tart, like, lemon. Or sometimes when you get like real tart oranges, not a whole lot of bitterness at all. But it does say it's 15 IBUs, so, yeah, low on the bitter. Oh, my gosh, smells really good. It's got a little bit of that saison-y yeast smell as well. It does smell a little bit of a funky aspect to it. Must be some Britannomyces. But really interesting, the play between the citrusy hoppiness and the citrusy sourness. It's very, very interesting. Can't wait to try this. Right before I took a sip there, I got a smell of like a citrus bubblegum type thing. Like a little bit of like a typical bubblegum mixed with a citrus bubblegum. Interesting. So immediately, I get a little bit of the hop right up front, citrusy, a little bit of a caramel-y aspect as well. And then it goes quickly into the sourness, which builds up and then builds back down and then there's a tad bit of bitterness on the end. Nice mouthfeel. Very crisp, very refreshing. Mmm. That's pretty good. The hops, yeah, it's so interesting. The hops versus the tartness in there, it's just, it's an interesting beer. It's going to be a lot of fun to continue sipping. And I feel like I'm about to eat dinner in a little bit. I feel like it'll be great with a dinner. I'm going to have tacos. I think it'll go well with tacos. So let me see if there's any information on this. This is the second batch that they've done of this. It says, it's a unique blend of barrel-aged brew made in locally-sourced petite sarah and granache wine barrels, carefully crafted with a final round of dry hopping to bring out distinct notes of citrus and stone fruit. Enjoy it with good company and savor the fink, Proust. This is nice. This is a fun, interesting, tasty dry hop soursaison. I'm not sure I've ever had a dry hop soursaison before. Had a dry hopped saison, I believe, before and a souraison, not dry hop soursaison. Very cool. Very interesting. Highly recommended if people can get a hold of it. Sudwork brewing. I don't know if the brewmaster did this one or if it was some students, but whoever did it, great job. Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out. See if you can get some sudwork, because interesting stuff, especially this one. And stick around for the next episode. Go get yourself an awesome beer to try.