Category Archives: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry

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.

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

3 Sons Slice of Life

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Brewery: 3 Sons Brewing Company
Country: USA
ABV: 12%
Style: Sour Ale – Pastry
Other Notes: Collaboration with Boneflower Craft Mead Co.

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Tequila barrel aged key lime pie sour with meadowfoam honey, lime zest & graham crackers.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.27
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 750ml bottle, 2020 vintage. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy golden colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Dessert like, very light tartness, strong graham cracker, shredded coconut, caramel, with light notes of vanilla, honey, marshmallow, and candied lime.
Taste: Liquid dessert or cocktail, moderately sweet, lightly tart, tequila, candied lime, marshmallow, graham cracker, shredded coconut.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Pleasantly surprised and really unexpected in a good way. I suppose the reason is that I had no idea what to expect even after reading the description. But this really worked, and everything from the description just seemed to meld together, and it’s like drinking a liquid dessert. At 12% ABV, any alcohol is really well hidden, and perhaps my only negative, is that after drinking half a bottle, it does start to feel quite sweet, so share the bottle and enjoy!

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

Funky Fluid Gelato Pastry Sour – PB&J

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Brewery: Funky Fluid
Country: Poland
ABV: 5.8%
Style: Sour Ale – Smoothie / Soda / Pastry
Other Notes: Hops – Amarillo

Brewer Description: (from can) Sweet & sour beer. Inspired by Italian ice creams and famous Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich. Packed up to the ceiling with raspberry & black currant purée.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.17
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 500ml can, with a best before date of 1st July 2021. Poured into a Alvinne teku glass.
Appearance: A cloudy artificial purple pink colour, with a one finger pink head that disappeared almost immediately, while leaving no lacing.
Aroma: Sweet, dessert, jammy, mixed berries, wafer, nutty, with notes of peanut butter.
Taste: Sour, tart, jammy, mixed berries, sweetness, wafer, nutty.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Easy drinking dessert like beer. Although the nuttiness was more like wafer/peanuts than peanut butter, it still tasted nice with the jammy mixed berry flavours.