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Grapefruit Radler
Tree Brewing
- From:
- Tree Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 2.5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 8.82%
- Reviews:
- 3
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 16, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 01, 2014
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 5
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Ratings by bumchilly25:
Rated by bumchilly25 from Canada (BC)
3.64/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
May 15, 2015
3.64/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
May 15, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.4/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.4/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
It's hard to rate a grapefruit radler. This is definitely a grapefruit radler, and a successful one (in the sense that it tastes like both beer and grapefruit juice).
Less syrupy and sweet than other entries into the market (Stiegl Radler), you could convince me there's real grapefruit juice involved; but it's also a bit heavier in its body than those other entries into the market. All in all, it does what it purports to, and I don't dislike it.
Aug 26, 2015Less syrupy and sweet than other entries into the market (Stiegl Radler), you could convince me there's real grapefruit juice involved; but it's also a bit heavier in its body than those other entries into the market. All in all, it does what it purports to, and I don't dislike it.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.31/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
It's a radler, it's Canadian, it's refreshing. Not my cup of tea, but worth sampling because it's locally produced by a quality brewery. As far as Radlers go, this is definitely one of the best I have tried.
Jul 01, 2015Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.35/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
500ml can, part of the 4-pack it is sold in here in Alberta. Nicely informative note about the origin of the term 'radler' on the label.
This, um, cough, beer pours a cloudy, very pale yellow-tinged straw colour, with two pudgy fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and generally fizzy off-white head, which leaves very little in the way of persistent lace anywhere near the glass as it steadily abates.
It smells of dry, pithy grapefruit flesh and/or juice, the unsweetened kind, more rind than any sort of potentially sugary sort of thing, and a pale wheaty maltiness that is more ethereal than actually discernible and parsable. The taste is more grapefruit, of the sugary persuasion, but yet one still sassy and unyielding in its inherent tartness, over a weakened and somehow persistent wheaty base malt, simplicity being the marker here.
The bubbles are a bit intense up front, but settle quickly to a pleasant, and plainly understated frothiness, the body the story du jour, in its heady, almost full-seeming medium weight, with a less-than engaging smoothness, the veritable grapefruit bitterness the villain here. It finishes pretty much dry, the fruitiness of the obvious non-participating sort, as far as promoting the lingering, cut off at the knees maltiness is concerned.
Bandwagon aspiration accusations aside (ok, not), this tastes exactly like what it purports to be, unlike the target of its raison d'etre, around here, Stiegl Radler. Real grapefruit, true, albeit talked into it beer, so I guess I can't front too much on this one - it is indeed fulfilling a need, a market segment, as it were, and I guess I just have to be ok with that.
Jun 01, 2014This, um, cough, beer pours a cloudy, very pale yellow-tinged straw colour, with two pudgy fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and generally fizzy off-white head, which leaves very little in the way of persistent lace anywhere near the glass as it steadily abates.
It smells of dry, pithy grapefruit flesh and/or juice, the unsweetened kind, more rind than any sort of potentially sugary sort of thing, and a pale wheaty maltiness that is more ethereal than actually discernible and parsable. The taste is more grapefruit, of the sugary persuasion, but yet one still sassy and unyielding in its inherent tartness, over a weakened and somehow persistent wheaty base malt, simplicity being the marker here.
The bubbles are a bit intense up front, but settle quickly to a pleasant, and plainly understated frothiness, the body the story du jour, in its heady, almost full-seeming medium weight, with a less-than engaging smoothness, the veritable grapefruit bitterness the villain here. It finishes pretty much dry, the fruitiness of the obvious non-participating sort, as far as promoting the lingering, cut off at the knees maltiness is concerned.
Bandwagon aspiration accusations aside (ok, not), this tastes exactly like what it purports to be, unlike the target of its raison d'etre, around here, Stiegl Radler. Real grapefruit, true, albeit talked into it beer, so I guess I can't front too much on this one - it is indeed fulfilling a need, a market segment, as it were, and I guess I just have to be ok with that.
Grapefruit Radler from Tree Brewing
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
14 ratings
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