Dino Sour - Blackberry
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
Ranked #412 - ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #22,003 - Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 9.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 18, 2024
- Added:
- Jul 31, 2017
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- 0
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SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
Dino Sour blackberry sour ale packs a delightfully tart bite. Soured with out house-cultured lacto strain, blackberries are added pre and post fermentaceous period, balancing sour flavours with fresh berry sweetness.
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Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
355ml can poured into tulip.
Pours a murky blushing orange with half a finger of pinkish off-white head that leaves a few clouds of lace as it quickly recedes. Not particularly enticing.
Smells of sour berry punch, lemon pie, grainy white bread and some faint spoiled milk.
Tastes of mixed berry pie, bready wheat malt and more lacto milkiness.
Feels nice and tame. Light bodied with fizzy carbonation. Finishes pleasantly sour.
Verdict: Recommended. Not a hell of a lot can be said about it, but it's pretty decent and goes down good when you're thirsty.
Dec 08, 2021Pours a murky blushing orange with half a finger of pinkish off-white head that leaves a few clouds of lace as it quickly recedes. Not particularly enticing.
Smells of sour berry punch, lemon pie, grainy white bread and some faint spoiled milk.
Tastes of mixed berry pie, bready wheat malt and more lacto milkiness.
Feels nice and tame. Light bodied with fizzy carbonation. Finishes pleasantly sour.
Verdict: Recommended. Not a hell of a lot can be said about it, but it's pretty decent and goes down good when you're thirsty.
Reviewed by seveneighty from Canada (AB)
3/5 rDev -22.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -22.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Not a great sour. Had high hopes because of the brewer (Philips! come on, you can't go wrong!) but this was one of my less flavored sour brews. Maybe the concept was lost on me but I wasn't fond of the flavor. Too sweet, not sour enough, more of a soda pop than a beer. After four cans over numerous days, I thought it would grow on me, but it didn't. On to the next sour we go.
Aug 20, 2019
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.67/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
On tap in British Columbia: June 2019.
Clear red body with a whitish head.
Moderately tart with a lighter degree of berry flavors.
Light body with light carbonation.
Jul 11, 2019Clear red body with a whitish head.
Moderately tart with a lighter degree of berry flavors.
Light body with light carbonation.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.95/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Phillips Brewing 'Dino Sour - Blackberry' @ 4.2% , 1 of 4 (2x 473 cans) part of the 'Jurassic Pack' Fruitted Sour Ale's Mix Pack (8 beers 4 flavours)
A-pour is pink from can to a cloudy pink in the glass with a off-white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the tulip
S-acidic
T-tart start , fresh blackberry's , dry finish
MF-fizzy carbonation , medium body
Ov-very easy drinking beer , refreshing , standard for the Dino Sour family
prost LampertLand
May 12, 2019A-pour is pink from can to a cloudy pink in the glass with a off-white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the tulip
S-acidic
T-tart start , fresh blackberry's , dry finish
MF-fizzy carbonation , medium body
Ov-very easy drinking beer , refreshing , standard for the Dino Sour family
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - a lacto-soured ale. Whenever I encounter the word 'dinosaur' lately, all I can think of is the way the baby brother on that Peppa Pig cartoon my pre-schooler watches pronounces the word.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale pink-tinged amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves some sparse mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly goes extinct.
It smells of sour raspberries and blackberries, white wine vinegar, gently spoiled milk, and a tame grainy and crackery wheaten malt. The taste is tart mixed berry pie - blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries, with a semi-sweet grainy and bready crust, and a sour cream filling. There's also a mild earthy and funky stripe riding just below the surface.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its lumbering frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and pretty smooth, actually, as the fruit does well to keep its hands inside of the windows at all times. It finishes off-dry, the robust fruitiness keeping the lingering sourness duly in check.
Overall, this is a very agreeable and approachable version of the style, nice and tart in a fruity and lesser milky manner. Easy to drink, and refreshing, which works well on another hot and sunny Alberta afternoon. Snort! Oink! Roooooaar!
Aug 04, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale pink-tinged amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves some sparse mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly goes extinct.
It smells of sour raspberries and blackberries, white wine vinegar, gently spoiled milk, and a tame grainy and crackery wheaten malt. The taste is tart mixed berry pie - blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries, with a semi-sweet grainy and bready crust, and a sour cream filling. There's also a mild earthy and funky stripe riding just below the surface.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its lumbering frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and pretty smooth, actually, as the fruit does well to keep its hands inside of the windows at all times. It finishes off-dry, the robust fruitiness keeping the lingering sourness duly in check.
Overall, this is a very agreeable and approachable version of the style, nice and tart in a fruity and lesser milky manner. Easy to drink, and refreshing, which works well on another hot and sunny Alberta afternoon. Snort! Oink! Roooooaar!
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