"Au Currant"
Central Florida sipping is changing me, friends! Maybe it’s wizarding magic. I don’t like funky beers, I don’t like funky beers, I don’t like funky beers, and Epic Universe can’t change me.
Unless some magic happens, and it does!
“Au Currant” by Crooked Can is the newest Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Ministry of Magic brew in Epic Universe. I decided to choke down this beer, since I don’t like Farmhouse Ales at all. Adding blackcurrants to this saison is only going to make it worse for this dark beer fan who sees this as adding fruit to bleh. But hey, I need to drink all the potions to be fair and provide a proper sorting. I went into this thinking it would clearly be as horrible as Polyjuice Potion when I ordered it at Bar Moonshine. And instead, I found this to be a very pleasant, slightly funky, somewhat sweet 5.2% ABV, no-IBU, easy-to-drink experience. The berry flavor is not overwhelming; you are not drinking a shandy, and it helps manage the funk. I thought the non-beer drinker in my group might like the slight berry tang, but they found it to be too funky and undrinkable. Yeah, it’s not my favorite beer at Epic, I see you Stoick! It’s likely not my favorite Wizarding beer either. But it was really nice and refreshing when it's super hot in Paris or other parts of Epic.
I don’t talk about Farmhouse Ales or Saisons very often. Mostly because I dislike them, they are not my brew, or haven’t been. But as a style, it very much fits within the Paris vibe of the Ministry of Magic. It’s very much a popular, homemade, traditional, Western European beer that fits Paris. If anything to be me it feels more peasant than aristocrat, as it’s a working person brew. For some reason, I see Wizards being more landowners than those who till the ground. But it does fit the vibe better than an English ale style that we would find over in the other two parks.
Who Drinks This? Wizards who need to check off all the Wizard beers grab this. Fans of slightly funky beers would enjoy this one. “Au Currant” is not my go-to potion, but it could give me future change-of-pace sips.
