Cosmic Fruit Overdrive
Devils Backbone Brewing Company
- From:
- Devils Backbone Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 11.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 14, 2020
- Added:
- May 24, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by akaizer from Illinois
4.01/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
From a bottle. Pour had an off-white verging on beet-y colored foam that neatly matched a beet-y/red color. Just like a smoothie, no clarity is present. Scent has a fruity sweetness (berries, orange) to it with a touch of tartness...and smells pretty darn close to some fruit smoothies I've had in the past. Taste is on the sweeter side, a touch of alcohol present, but mainly smoothie-like fruit flavors. Feel has a lingering sweetness (unsurprisingly like a sweeter fruit smoothie), is surprisingly hearty in its body, and has just a touch of effervescence on the tongue. As my first smoothie-style ale, I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by the style -- was not expecting it to so neatly match a smoothie.
Jul 26, 2020
Reviewed by chum_husk from Minnesota
3.97/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
12oz bottle from the variety pack
Pours out wine-red, cloudy, with some pink bubbles. Smells like raspberry and orange. Taste is a very muted mishmash of fruit flavors, with a bite of alcohol on the finish. Not very well balanced, slightly sour but mostly sweet fruit flavor. Drinks lighter than the 6.5% - that being a good thing all depends.. Very smooth creamy milkshake style feel
Enjoyable but thin on flavor
Jun 08, 2020Pours out wine-red, cloudy, with some pink bubbles. Smells like raspberry and orange. Taste is a very muted mishmash of fruit flavors, with a bite of alcohol on the finish. Not very well balanced, slightly sour but mostly sweet fruit flavor. Drinks lighter than the 6.5% - that being a good thing all depends.. Very smooth creamy milkshake style feel
Enjoyable but thin on flavor
Reviewed by teromous from Virginia
3.03/5 rDev -20.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -20.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
From the lower left corner of the label on the bottle: "BEST BY 08.11.20 20:20:33"
Appearance: The body is a deep, opaque, beet red color, with a hint of purple. The head is short and creamy textured with a few large bubbles giving it a frothy appearance. The head is a light purple color. It has some retention and as it fades it dissipates unevenly across the bubbles on the surface giving it a ring with continents. No lacing.
Aroma: There is a light raspberry aroma.
Taste: Up front there is a raspberry flavor. Towards the middle it takes on a bit of a boysenberry character. A light bit of what tastes like carrot juice at the end, giving it this earthy finish. The flavors tend to muddle together a bit and it tastes mostly like a juice. After drinking it for a while a light bit of alcohol comes through. At times it tastes like a raspberry popsicle which is cool.
Mouthfeel: It is medium-light bodied with a hint of texture. It has a light smoothness to it. Very little bitterness.
Overall: The label touts this as a "SMOOTHIE-STYLE ALE" that is an "ALE WITH NATURAL FLAVORS & VEGETABLES JUICE FOR COLOR." It is a pretty good beer that tastes mostly like berries. It does have smoothie-like qualities in that it is fruity, lightly textured, and smooth. This would probably work better as a brunch drink rather than a pool-side or evening party drink because it has a bit of texture and earthiness which hampers drinkability a bit. It's an alright beer to try but I probably wouldn't drink it again. It's worth picking up as a single or sharing with somebody, but I wouldn't readily recommend it. If you enjoy raspberries a lot you would probably like it, but it doesn't offer a lot more than that.
May 24, 2020Appearance: The body is a deep, opaque, beet red color, with a hint of purple. The head is short and creamy textured with a few large bubbles giving it a frothy appearance. The head is a light purple color. It has some retention and as it fades it dissipates unevenly across the bubbles on the surface giving it a ring with continents. No lacing.
Aroma: There is a light raspberry aroma.
Taste: Up front there is a raspberry flavor. Towards the middle it takes on a bit of a boysenberry character. A light bit of what tastes like carrot juice at the end, giving it this earthy finish. The flavors tend to muddle together a bit and it tastes mostly like a juice. After drinking it for a while a light bit of alcohol comes through. At times it tastes like a raspberry popsicle which is cool.
Mouthfeel: It is medium-light bodied with a hint of texture. It has a light smoothness to it. Very little bitterness.
Overall: The label touts this as a "SMOOTHIE-STYLE ALE" that is an "ALE WITH NATURAL FLAVORS & VEGETABLES JUICE FOR COLOR." It is a pretty good beer that tastes mostly like berries. It does have smoothie-like qualities in that it is fruity, lightly textured, and smooth. This would probably work better as a brunch drink rather than a pool-side or evening party drink because it has a bit of texture and earthiness which hampers drinkability a bit. It's an alright beer to try but I probably wouldn't drink it again. It's worth picking up as a single or sharing with somebody, but I wouldn't readily recommend it. If you enjoy raspberries a lot you would probably like it, but it doesn't offer a lot more than that.
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