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Goose Island Beer Co.


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- From:
- Goose Island Beer Co.
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
Ranked #256 - ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 82
Ranked #26,685 - Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 14.25%
- Reviews:
- 22
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 18, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 01, 2013
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 14
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good


Notes:
Brewed for the upcoming (hopefully) warm weather with a traditional Kolsch yeast, which lends toward a fruity and flavorful beer with a nose of floral and fruity hops and a soft malt body with a crisp, dry finish.
9 IBU
9 IBU
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Reviewed by DrOfGolf from Delaware
3.39/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
I had this back when I was living in Florida about a year or so ago. Wrote down some notes about it then but never got to post them. Anyway, I vaguely remember that it was a rather fruity beer with a tart and tangy taste. I thought it was pretty decent but it's not my kind of thing to have regularly.
Jun 18, 2022Reviewed by Franziskaner from Missouri
3.23/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.23/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Light gold in color with a heavy presence of carbonation bubbles. There’s a fingernail of off white on top. Light, soapy lacing is present. The aroma is of a passion fruit. I taste a hefty dose of passion fruit. The mouth is highly carbonated and crisp.
Sep 26, 2021Rated by sbrowning
1.5/5 rDev -58.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.5/5 rDev -58.1%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Just weird. Weak, metallic, bizarre aftertaste.
May 30, 2021Rated by BWSr from Massachusetts
4.47/5 rDev +24.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +24.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Having my second one of these on a hot summer day. Definitely a good summer beer. Nothing overpowering. Just enjoyable w a fruity smell and taste.
May 22, 2021Reviewed by mikeg67 from New Jersey
3.67/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
12 oz can. Pours golden with tall, long-lasting, fluffy white head and nice lacing. Aroma is of bready malt, tropical fruit and funky yeast. Body is medium and smooth. Herbal hops, wheat malt, passion fruit and funk fill the mouth. Finish is long and sour. Nice brew.
Apr 15, 2021Rated by StonewallSipper from Pennsylvania
3.34/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.34/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Pours a regular semi clear yellow, aroma is very faint, Lager like, taste is of a common Bud, not much here.
Jan 18, 2021Rated by Hopheadjeffery from Illinois
3.67/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Tasted in a pint glass from draft at Emil's Tavern on July 19, 2020.
Oct 13, 2020Rated by Joekohl from Illinois
3.3/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.3/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
I’ve never been a flavored beer fan however I can say this was enjoyable. Smooth drink, nicely carbonated, refreshing brew.
Oct 04, 2020Reviewed by BEERMILER12 from Maine
3.74/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A: Pours a golden yellow color with 2 fingers of head that fades down to a thin cap that leaves good lacing
S: Passion fruit up front along with some citrus and other tropical fruit
T: Follows the nose. Starts off with the passion fruit and citrus and then slowly picks up some bready malt. Finishes with lingering bread and passion fruit
M: Light bodied with moderate carbonation
O: A solid summer sipper that is very easy to drink and is super approachable. Worth a shot
Jul 26, 2020S: Passion fruit up front along with some citrus and other tropical fruit
T: Follows the nose. Starts off with the passion fruit and citrus and then slowly picks up some bready malt. Finishes with lingering bread and passion fruit
M: Light bodied with moderate carbonation
O: A solid summer sipper that is very easy to drink and is super approachable. Worth a shot
Reviewed by VoxRationis from New York
4.26/5 rDev +19%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +19%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Decanted from a 12 oz (355 ml) can into a custom taster pint; best by 22 September 2020.
A: Pours an every so slight straw color with a two finger, white head, solid retention of a broad ring, but very little lacing.
S: Fruity, to say the least. Aromas of passionfruit, pineapple, and raspberry.
T: Sweet and slightly tart. Palate basically the same as the nose. Bitterness subtle and creates a real balance with the sweetness and fruitiness.
M: Light bodied with moderate but persistent carbonation.
O: A remarkably refreshing and enjoyable (passion)fruit beer, but on a Kölsch base. Definitely the right thing for Summer.
May 05, 2020A: Pours an every so slight straw color with a two finger, white head, solid retention of a broad ring, but very little lacing.
S: Fruity, to say the least. Aromas of passionfruit, pineapple, and raspberry.
T: Sweet and slightly tart. Palate basically the same as the nose. Bitterness subtle and creates a real balance with the sweetness and fruitiness.
M: Light bodied with moderate but persistent carbonation.
O: A remarkably refreshing and enjoyable (passion)fruit beer, but on a Kölsch base. Definitely the right thing for Summer.
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire
3.37/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
From the 122 oz can dated 29 Aug 20. Sampled April 24, 2020.
Golden-yellow pour with lively carbonation building up to a white foamy head. Long lasting.
Passion fruit was promised and passion fruit you get in the aroma. Along with a cereal grain or more specifically a sourdough sensation.
Light body although smooth.
Sweet and full of passion fruit. Almost to the extreme. I did not get very excited about this beer. I wouldn't miss it if I never had it again.
Apr 25, 2020Golden-yellow pour with lively carbonation building up to a white foamy head. Long lasting.
Passion fruit was promised and passion fruit you get in the aroma. Along with a cereal grain or more specifically a sourdough sensation.
Light body although smooth.
Sweet and full of passion fruit. Almost to the extreme. I did not get very excited about this beer. I wouldn't miss it if I never had it again.
Rated by LisaSpano from Illinois
3.52/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Light and springy tasting. Tastes Somewhere in between a seltzer malt drink and a wit beer.
Mar 22, 2020Reviewed by chitoryu12 from Florida
3.62/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.62/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Look: Hazy gold. One finger of thick white head with good retention.
Smell: Strong passionfruit, watermelon, honeydew, and strawberry. Absolutely tiny amount of malt coming through the nose. Could easily be mistaken for a flavored malt beverage like a Bacardi Breezer.
Taste: Much less fruity than the nose. Mild malt with a very tiny amount of citrusy hops, but no bitterness. Faint watermelon and honeydew. The nose may be juicy, but it tastes like hard seltzer.
Mouthfeel: Thin and highly carbonated.
Overall: It starts out promising a lot, but ends up falling prey to the desire for a poundable beer. It could easily be mistaken for a White Claw product in a different container.
Jan 27, 2020Smell: Strong passionfruit, watermelon, honeydew, and strawberry. Absolutely tiny amount of malt coming through the nose. Could easily be mistaken for a flavored malt beverage like a Bacardi Breezer.
Taste: Much less fruity than the nose. Mild malt with a very tiny amount of citrusy hops, but no bitterness. Faint watermelon and honeydew. The nose may be juicy, but it tastes like hard seltzer.
Mouthfeel: Thin and highly carbonated.
Overall: It starts out promising a lot, but ends up falling prey to the desire for a poundable beer. It could easily be mistaken for a White Claw product in a different container.
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.85/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Goose Island Beer Co. "SPF"
12 fl. oz. can coded "27NOV19 11:42" and sampled on 28OCT19 11:06
$2.49 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: Well there must be some definite passion fruit in here because I could smell it as I poured it. Is it real? No, it's passion fruit flavor but that's OK. It's a hazy golden beneath a finger-thick head of creamy white foam. The aroma is definitely of sweetened passion fruit, and I'm not finding anything beyond it. The flavor, however, brings in some lightly doughy malt, and a mild bitterness. Ehhh, me thinks 'meh'. This isn't much different than so many of the raspberry ales that I used to drink back in the late '90s - except that it's passion fruit extract instead. It's OK, but it's not great. Let me finish up quickly: medium bodied with a gently effervescent, fine-bubbled carbonation and some pretty good lacing and still a bit of a surface covering of foam to it. It's a little too 'passion-fruity' for me, and I'll say slightly off-balance in general but good for what it is. Take out any of that passion fruit essence and people would complain it wasn't fruity enough. Add more bitterness or acidity to it and they'd complain about that. We all have our preferences, and I'm guessing that for now at least this is what's selling.
Review #6,764
Oct 28, 201912 fl. oz. can coded "27NOV19 11:42" and sampled on 28OCT19 11:06
$2.49 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: Well there must be some definite passion fruit in here because I could smell it as I poured it. Is it real? No, it's passion fruit flavor but that's OK. It's a hazy golden beneath a finger-thick head of creamy white foam. The aroma is definitely of sweetened passion fruit, and I'm not finding anything beyond it. The flavor, however, brings in some lightly doughy malt, and a mild bitterness. Ehhh, me thinks 'meh'. This isn't much different than so many of the raspberry ales that I used to drink back in the late '90s - except that it's passion fruit extract instead. It's OK, but it's not great. Let me finish up quickly: medium bodied with a gently effervescent, fine-bubbled carbonation and some pretty good lacing and still a bit of a surface covering of foam to it. It's a little too 'passion-fruity' for me, and I'll say slightly off-balance in general but good for what it is. Take out any of that passion fruit essence and people would complain it wasn't fruity enough. Add more bitterness or acidity to it and they'd complain about that. We all have our preferences, and I'm guessing that for now at least this is what's selling.
Review #6,764
Reviewed by beerthulhu from New Jersey
3.96/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A: Good clarity on a golden orange coloring. Lots of macro-bubbly activity within. Weathered white head, spongy porous texture, about 1/4 inch, has a moderate rate of retention. Small lace lashes on the vessel.
S: Watermelon, honeydew fruity nose, with some bubblegum yeastiness with a perfumy scent and delivery. Freshly sliced apples drip with juiciness along with white grapes, and sweet guava. Nicely blended, good awareness, very pleasant, fresh, fruity, and wet. Almost fruit cup like.
T: Flavor followed the nose, very fruity, fresh and wet. White grapes, tropical notes along with watermelon, pear juice, and some fresh apple slices. Sweet oranges, passion fruit with hints of pineapple all nicely blended and married as with the nose, with each having great distinction and individual character and easy to define. A tropical fade with some kiwi-strawberry.
M: Light to medium body, good carbonation texture, good feel, wine cooler like.
O: Beautiful blend of tropical flavor and fresh breakfast fruit, showing a wide spectrum of flavor and strong individual content. Fruity, fresh and wet and very refreshing for easy drinking and pool side/beach consumption ideal for the hot summer time weather. Wine cooler like fruitiness high drinkability, very smooth and blended flavor.
Sep 09, 2019S: Watermelon, honeydew fruity nose, with some bubblegum yeastiness with a perfumy scent and delivery. Freshly sliced apples drip with juiciness along with white grapes, and sweet guava. Nicely blended, good awareness, very pleasant, fresh, fruity, and wet. Almost fruit cup like.
T: Flavor followed the nose, very fruity, fresh and wet. White grapes, tropical notes along with watermelon, pear juice, and some fresh apple slices. Sweet oranges, passion fruit with hints of pineapple all nicely blended and married as with the nose, with each having great distinction and individual character and easy to define. A tropical fade with some kiwi-strawberry.
M: Light to medium body, good carbonation texture, good feel, wine cooler like.
O: Beautiful blend of tropical flavor and fresh breakfast fruit, showing a wide spectrum of flavor and strong individual content. Fruity, fresh and wet and very refreshing for easy drinking and pool side/beach consumption ideal for the hot summer time weather. Wine cooler like fruitiness high drinkability, very smooth and blended flavor.
Reviewed by mooseisloose from Florida
2.95/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.95/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Drinking from a can. Aroma is sweet like passion fruit. Taste is nice and carbonated with good body but a bit too sweet. This might be better dranken on the rocks or in crushed ice. The idea is there but it is way overdone. If you want a good one of these drink Kona’s. Maybe that’s why Publix was Buy one get one. I’ll feed this to the guests.
Sep 05, 2019Reviewed by Calarice from Kentucky
1.95/5 rDev -45.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
1.95/5 rDev -45.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
Horrible. Like carbonated fruit flavored water that you get at the dollar store. I wouldn't even classify this as beer. I'm sorry to come of harsh but this was very dissatisfying.
Aug 12, 2019
SPF from Goose Island Beer Co.
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
82 ratings
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