Xingu

After spending many dinners at Chorizo last summer stealing sips of this, I've been craving a bottle of my own. Got a tip from someone that they carried it at the Whole Foods on Bowery, so I grabbed a single today while picking up an IPA. It's a Schwarzbier from a Brazilian brewery, imported (appropriately) by some ladies in Vermont. It's probably the only beer of this style I've ever had, so I can't compare it to much, but I enjoyed drinking it. It's got mildly roasted flavors, it's a little sweet, but it feels crisp and light. It's not overly carbonated. It's not actually overly anything, which makes it drinkable, but not an outstanding or very memorable beer. Definitely better a little warmer than fridge temp- the flavors mellow and flow better. The personal memories surrounding it probably make it taste better than it actually does, but I'd drink it again. It's kind of like eating again at that restaurant you ate at on a great first date, and the food being not as good as you remember, but you tell yourself it was, and keep going back because you're unwillingly to give up on a nice memory, until you realize the food actually isn't that good and you've wasted probably a lot of money. Bummer.