Extended Quarantine Day #42. My first Mallaskellari beer ever! 🤘🏻 Their beers are now also bottled and available outside their home region, at least in Espoo. I bought four different beers, I'll open now a Sour IPA. Let's see what we get! The label is very simplistic and amateurish, looks like it has been printed with an inkjet. No colors. Funny and in a way very approachable. The beer colors turbid, light copper. Somewhat dirty. The carbonation is loud and lively, its duration is standard. The head is clean white and soft fluffy. It grows almost three fingers tall. It retains really long on the top and paints the glass with a good number of tiny dots here and there. The scent surprises me first: I pick a relatively hefty Sour Ale aroma of lemon and wild yeast. The yeast disappears immediately when I whirl the glass and the beer emits instead the still familiar lemon, a tad sour passionfruit and a silent sigh of oatmeal. The taste would take me with an even bigger surprise hadn't I sniffed carefully before sipping. Indeed, the palate is sour, could well be a Sour Ale or even Gose. IPA twists are concealed behind the sour elements. Lemon is powerful, both pulp and peel. I can also pick passionfruit, a bit of raw apple and faint grapefruit among the gustatory components. Yeast is neatly on the backseat. The body is light. The beer finishes with citrus pith and peel and withdrawing passionfruit. The simple finish squeezes the tastebuds for a medium to long time. The mouthfeel is light, rather tart and nicely puckering. It's more pithy than pulpy although I find this relatively juicy. I must say that the tartness beats crispness if there's any. Hence the IPA characteristics remain considerably modest. Could work well as a summery thirst quencher.