Cahaba DD’s Cherry Hibiscus Sour — Charity Never Tasted This Tart

The Review

Every year Cahaba brews DD’s Cherry Hibiscus Sour in honor of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama, donating a portion of every six-pack sold to BCRFA. It’s a lovely thing to do. It’s also — and this matters — a genuinely excellent beer that would earn its place on the tap list without the charitable angle.

Brewed as a Berliner Weisse, it pours a vivid pink-red that is absolutely going to get photographed. The nose is tart cherry, hibiscus, and a light lactic sourness that promises what the palate delivers: bright, crisp tartness, real cherry flavor without going candy-artificial, and a hibiscus floral note that lifts the whole thing. The finish is clean and effervescent, extraordinarily light-bodied with a fruit sweetness that softens the lactic edge.

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It is, as Cahaba describes it, extraordinarily light and effervescent. They’re right. It’s the kind of beer that drinks faster than you mean to drink it, which is fine because every sip benefits a good cause and also because it’s really good.

Order two. One for you. One because it’s the right thing to do.

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