Category Archives: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, BreWskey, Canada, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

BreWskey Brew Juice: Sour Patch

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Brewery: BreWskey
Country: Canada
ABV: 5.2%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie

Brewer Description: (from can in French) Cerise, fraise, framboise, lime, citron, orange et bonbons “sour patch”.

(translated to English) Cherry, strawberry, raspberry, lime, lemon, orange and sour patch candies.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.43

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 2nd May 2025, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A dark thick pink guava colour, milkshake like texture, big bubbles, and a good amount of sediment on the glass.
Aroma: Candy, strawberry, cherry, raspberry, and citrus lime lemon notes.
Taste: Sweet, sour patch candy milkshake, mixed berries, lemon lime candy.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: It’s pretty much as described like a sour patch smoothie, while the aroma and flavours are what I enjoy.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Scotland, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry, Vault City Brewing

Vault City Red Berry Waffle Cone Shortcake Triple Scoop

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Brewery: Vault City Brewing
Country: Scotland
ABV: 8.4%
Style: Sour Ale – Pastry

Brewer Description: (from can) Our favourite flavours of ice cream are the inspiration for our latest dessert sours, back again in a series of single, double, and triple scoops… Layers of juicy strawberries, cherries, raspberries and blackberries are added to a triple serving of smooth vanilla ice cream served in a golden waffle cone with generous toppings of crumbly shortcake biscuit.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 440ml can, canned on 7th May 2025, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A dark reddish purple colour with a thin half finger pinkish head that had decent retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Red berry jammy, strawberry ice cream, raspberry, vanilla, with notes of waffle biscuits.
Taste: Sweet and a touch sour, strawberry jam, red berry compote, vanilla, waffle biscuits, sour cherry.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: An enjoyable dessert sour with a wonderful aroma and nice flavours.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Canada, Messorem Bracitorium, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

Messorem Petit Jus de Mort: Framboise + Vanille

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Brewery: Messorem Bracitorium
Country: Canada
ABV: 6%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie

Brewer Description: (from can) Framboise + Vanille.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.37

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 21st May 2025, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A dark purplish red colour, thick smoothie texture, no head, smoothie like lacing.
Aroma: Tart and sweet, raspberry jam, strawberry, vanilla, smoothie.
Taste: Much like the aroma, tart and sweet, raspberry, vanilla, smoothie, with notes of lemon zest and lime.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, thick full bodied with soft to no carbonation.
Overall: Very fruit smoothie like, with a classic fruit and vanilla combo that works in pretty much all desserts.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Corporate Ladder Brewing Company, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry, USA

Corporate Ladder Dessert Station Apple Pie

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Brewery: Corporate Ladder Brewing Company
Country: USA
ABV: 6.5%
Style: Sour Ale – Pastry
Other Notes: Gluten free dessert beer

Brewer Description: (from can) Gluten free dessert beer conditioned on apple, brown sugar & cinnamon.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.01

Intro: A 1 pint can, with no clear canned on or best before date. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: Looks like apple juice with a few floaties in it. Pretty much no head, but there’s some white lacing here and there.
Aroma: Sweet apple juice, stewed apples, cinnamon.
Taste: Sweet, apple juice, sugar syrup, stewed apples, cinnamon, with light crusty notes.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: Sweet, maybe even sweeter than apple pie itself. It’s more like sweet stewed apples for me, while missing the pie crust, which I think would have balanced the sweetness to a more acceptable level.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Samata Brewing, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry, Thailand

Samata Pineapple Yuzu Cardamom

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Brewery: Samata Brewing
Country: Thailand
ABV: 4%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry
Other Notes: Pineapple, yuzu, cardamom

Brewer Description: (from can) Escaping the summer season to refreshing oasis with our most exquisite blend. This fruited-sour introduces symphony of extraordinary aroma from sweet essence of ripe pineapple and the energetic flavor from yuzu, all harmonized by the cooling note of cardamom essence. Enjoy this drink extra cold for uncharted territories of flavor.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.13
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 330ml can, canned on 15th July 2024. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A murky dark orange colour with a thin white head that dissipated fairly quickly, while leaving some lacing.
Aroma: Sweet pineapple juice and yuzu juice.
Taste: Moderately sweet, lightly sour, pineapple juice, and yuzu juice.
Mouthfeel: Medium to light bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: Aroma and taste were nice, refreshing and enjoyable. I probably even finished it faster than any other beer I’ve drank without downing it or messing around. I’m just not sure I’d call it beer as opposed to juice.