Category Archives: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

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

Kings Fros’e Dr’s Foster

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Brewery: Kings Brewing Company
Country: USA
ABV: 7%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Pastry

Brewer Description: (from untappd) Fros’e with banana, cinnamon, brown sugar, vanilla ice cream, vanilla and white chocolate to round it all out. In collaboration with Dr. Dabber.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.26
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 1 pint can with no clear canned on or best before date. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A thick murky yellow brown colour with a half finger off white head that dissipated fairly quickly leaving no lacing, but lots of fruity bits.
Aroma: Milkshake, banana, vanilla, brown sugar, milk, with a touch of cinnamon.
Taste: Banana, cinnamon, vanilla ice cream, brown sugar, and white chocolate.
Mouthfeel: Thick, full bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: Looks wrong upon pouring, but the aroma and flavours work as has been established in a banana foster, which this definitely reminds me of.

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5 - Excellent (must buy), Beer Reviews, Funky Fluid, Poland, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

Funky Fluid Triple Gelato Ice Cream Sour Nero

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Brewery: Funky Fluid
Country: Poland
ABV: 8%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry
Other Notes: Raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, blackcurrant, plum, marshmallow, vanilla

Brewer Description: (from can) In this Gelato we decided on a mix of dark fruit – raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants & plums. We added marshmallow & vanilla to round it up. A fruit bomb!

My rating: 5
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.65
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.5

Intro: A 500ml can, with a best before date of 21st April 2023. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A dark maroon colour with a one finger pinkish purple head that had pretty good retention, while leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Sweet, candy like, raspberry, blackcurrant, blackberry, blueberry, vanilla, and cream.
Taste: Sweet, mixed dark berries, blackcurrant, raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, and vanilla.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, full bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: The flavours are exactly what I enjoy. Vanilla mixed with a whole bunch of dark berries. Just yum.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Funky Fluid, Poland, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

Funky Fluid Triple Gelato Ice Cream Sour Yellow Fluff

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Brewery: Funky Fluid
Country: Poland
ABV: 9%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry
Other Notes: Banana, passion fruit, marshmallow & vanilla

Brewer Description: (from can) Gelato is a series of sweet & sour beers inspired by the intense Italian ice cream flavours. This one is revisiting & amplifying our Yellow Fluff recipe, the banana & marshmallow packed delight. A liquid dessert.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.16
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 500ml can, with a best before date of 28th March 2023. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A golden orange colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly to a ring around the glass while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Sweet, dessert, passion fruit, with light notes of banana and vanilla.
Taste: Sweet, sour, jammy, passion fruit, banana, vanilla, with hints of cream soda.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: I wasn’t entirely sold on the aroma, but the flavours does work well for me, and it drink so easy that you don’t feel it’s 9% abv at all.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, Omnipollo, Sour Ale - Smoothie / Soda / Pastry, Sweden

Omnipollo Pleroma Blueberry Pineapple Crème Brûlée Sour

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Brewery: Omnipollo
Country: Sweden
ABV: 6%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie
Other Notes: Brewed by Omnipollo at De Proef Brouwerij (Belgium)

Brewer Description: (from website) The intensity of loads of blueberries blended together with the tropical, fresh notes of a ripe pineapple. Crème brûlée sour ale brewed with berries, milk sugar and lots of finely ground vanilla.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.97
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 330ml can, with a best before date of 24th November 2022. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A nice looking beetroot purple with a one finger pinkish purple head that had decent retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Cream soda, mixed forest berries, sweet canned pineapple, cream, vanilla.
Taste: Moderately sweet, cream soda, tart, pineapple, blueberry, cream, vanilla.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: It was interesting. It had good aroma and there was some similarities to the Bianca Blackberry Blueberry Marshmallow which was insanely good to me, but here I think the tartness of the pineapple just didn’t work as well with the other milkshake like qualities, and just didn’t make it as enjoyable to drink.

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

Stamm Daenerys

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Brewery: Stamm Brewing
Country: Russia
ABV: 7%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie
Other Notes: Imperial Sour Ale

Brewer Description: Imperial Sour Ale with mango, passionfruit and guava.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.21
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 500ml can, canned on 30th November 2021, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A cloudy deep mango orange colour with a one finger orange head that dissipated fairly quickly, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Strong tropical fruitiness, guava and mango standout, with notes of passionfruit.
Taste: Tart, light sourness, lots of tropical fruit, guava, mango, passionfruit, with light sweet mandarin notes.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Overall: A good amount of tropical fruit, guava, mango and passionfruit, aroma and flavours, which was a good combination.