Shorts Bloody Beer

Brewed by Shorts Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Bellaire, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

(Bottle) Pours amber with a small creamy head. The aroma is peppery spicy with clear tones of tomatoes and more subtle notes of horseradish. Some malt to back it up. The flavour is light sweet and light bitter. Pepper, subtle spices and tomatoes. Quite robust malt backbone. The mouthfeel is clean and light carbonated. Spicy aftertaste. Medium bodied.

Sampled at an esbls tasting. From Shep. Gold with red and no head. Thisvtastes like a bloody mary. Spice and vegetables. Not a favored beer but neither are bloody marys.

the best beer ever my ultime favorite, bloody marys are my favorite and i love beer its the perfect mixture of both almost as good as screaming pumpkin beer

Hmm, strange that I even attempted to try this seeing as I hate bloody marys. Poured tomato juice red with basically no head. Aroma or tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetable. Flavor was much the same as the aroma, certainly not good, but good enoguh to not be a drainpour.

12 ounce bottle
Kudos to Shorts for thinking outside the box. This might have been more enjoyable if I were a fan of throwing random ingredients into a glass then drinking it. I can say based on this however that if it is anything like an actual Bloody Mary then no thanks. An outlier in the beer scene it at least provides some good perspective on what is possible.

Aroma / Appearance - The opaque orange body with fizzy white head looks a bit like a thick syrupy cola. The nose might be in the ballpark for the intended experience - tomato juice, dill, and celery stick out among other aspects.

Flavor / Palate - A malt driven load of tomato juice, dill, and peppercorn hit the confused senses. Is this a beer or a mixed drink? The finish is oddly strong. In the end I was glad to only have had to drink half the bottle. Any more would have burned out my palate for the evening.

I have to preface the rating with this: I don’t like bloody mary’s, and I don’t even know why I bought this beer. It pours out a slightly pinkish-tinted amber with very little head or carbonation, and a weird aroma of beer, tomato, and spice. Few traditional beer characteristics, as it’s initially the abominable bastard offspring of a beer and a gross cocktail. As it warms, it gains a bit of favor as the flavors blend somewhat and the spices desensitize the palate and it eventually becomes drinkable, so I’m glad I finished the glass instead of pouring it down the drain as I very strongly considered. Still horrible, but not the drainpour I expected.

The aroma is the bloody mary, more herbal side of it with light tomatoes. The body is golden orange amber with a very light head. The flavor is tomatoes, very light notes of an actual beer here because the flavors of the bloody mary herbs and spiciness, true spiciness, come through well. The downside is that they come through on a body that is too light for what you expect, but then again that may be a good thing. Very Shortsy, as usual.

(12oz bottle thanks to Mora2000) glowing orange color with a ring of fine white bubbles. Nose is a bit oxidized, tomato, celery, a bit of orange, and smells oddly enjoyable. Taste however is salty, stewed tomatoes, umami, a bit of orange, and just gross. I’ve never had a beer smell so good and taste so bad. Couldn’t taste more than an ounce. This was an extremely polarizing beer amongst our tasting group, and I was obviously on the end that didn’t like it. If you like bloody marys, you’ll love it.