As I was still reeling about after drinking Sound Wave, I forgot to photograph it. If this is your photo let me know…
Ah. Siren’s beers…this is where the effusiveness-o-meter generally starts going off the scale a bit; I’ll try to be objective and not gush too much.
Sound Wave pours a really lovely clear amber-gold colour. I don’t know how they work out their carbonation rates (I’ve tried working it out for my beers and always go with a half to a quarter teaspoon of unrefined cane sugar – with variable success) but Siren have it pretty much smack on. As I never tire of saying, thoughtful carbonation can only do your beer good.
With a delicious looking head atop and a slight haze – most probably from dry hopping (yum) – this is a tasty looking and pretty beer.
The aroma is gorgeous: candyish sweetness, floral and citrus hop notes, fruity yeastiness, and with a smooth malt note running through, it’s bloody glorious.
On the taste I get resin, pine, citrus and floral notes from the hops, a little bitterness and a subtle honeyed malt character, with a dry and not over-the-top bitter finish.
On the after-taste lingering echoes of bitter and pine needles and floral dominate.
This is a special beer and is something that a lot of other brewers would do well to study in order to understand what beer should be aspiring to in 2014 and onwards.
On balance, I think I prefer Siren’s Liquid Mistress (https://yeastismybitch.com/2013/11/07/siren-liquid-mistress/) as that has a smidge more malt sweetness, whereas Sound Wave is a touch drier…but that’s just me.
Pick either of them and enjoy – they’re both bloody marvellous.
