Wild Radler - Pink Grapefruit
Bellwoods Brewery
- From:
- Bellwoods Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 2.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 0.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 19, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 11, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Wild Radler is a pure ray of citrusy light piercing through the winter gloom.
By blending pink grapefruit juice with foeder aged wild ale, we've created a refreshing and tart sipper that weighs in at a modest 2.5% ABV.
By blending pink grapefruit juice with foeder aged wild ale, we've created a refreshing and tart sipper that weighs in at a modest 2.5% ABV.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
3.98/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Can: Poured a hazy pale yellow color ale with a small white foamy head with limited retention and some light lacing. Aroma of light tart notes with some grapefruit notes. Taste is also a nice mix of tart notes with some grapefruit. Body is about average with good carbonation. Easy drinking and refreshing radler with no artificial flavors.
Jan 19, 2025
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
4.02/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
473 mL can shipped from the brewery; dated Jan 4 2024 and served slightly chilled.
Pours hazy and turbid, its pale rosy yellow-toned body briefly capped with half an inch of loose, sudsy white head. In a little over thirty seconds, it has vanished completely, leaving behind a barren surface with no sign that it ever existed - it resembles fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, sans pulp. I do get a very mild note of leathery Brett funk, as well as wheaty malts and grapefruit. I would've liked more grapefruit, but at least it's an interesting aroma for a radler.
The same can be said of the flavour profile - funky for a radler, but it took a few sips for the grapefruit to *really* show off. Starts off with sweet orchard fruits and bready, wheaty malts; lemony acidity and mild Brett funkiness join by mid-sip. The pink grapefruit juice is most noticeable on the back end, lingering into the aftertaste with its signature mix of citrus juice sourness, peel spiciness & bitterness. Quite acidic, but it's a radler, so it works. Light in body, with crisp, assertive carbonation not unlike that of a soda; feels prickly on the tongue, with a palate-scrubbing quality that leaves you ready for another sip.
Final Grade: 4.02, an A-. Wild Radler with Pink Grapefruit ain't your average radler. The question I've got to ask myself is, would I take Bellwoods' reimagining over a traditional grapefruit radler (for example, Stiegl's)? If I'm being honest, on those occasions where I am craving a radler, the answer would probably be 'no'. That being said, Wild Radler is creative and intriguing enough to be worth revisiting, and I enjoyed my glass quite a lot. I would absolutely recommend this to all radler fanatics, and that goes double for those with a side-interest in funky sours.
Mar 13, 2024Pours hazy and turbid, its pale rosy yellow-toned body briefly capped with half an inch of loose, sudsy white head. In a little over thirty seconds, it has vanished completely, leaving behind a barren surface with no sign that it ever existed - it resembles fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, sans pulp. I do get a very mild note of leathery Brett funk, as well as wheaty malts and grapefruit. I would've liked more grapefruit, but at least it's an interesting aroma for a radler.
The same can be said of the flavour profile - funky for a radler, but it took a few sips for the grapefruit to *really* show off. Starts off with sweet orchard fruits and bready, wheaty malts; lemony acidity and mild Brett funkiness join by mid-sip. The pink grapefruit juice is most noticeable on the back end, lingering into the aftertaste with its signature mix of citrus juice sourness, peel spiciness & bitterness. Quite acidic, but it's a radler, so it works. Light in body, with crisp, assertive carbonation not unlike that of a soda; feels prickly on the tongue, with a palate-scrubbing quality that leaves you ready for another sip.
Final Grade: 4.02, an A-. Wild Radler with Pink Grapefruit ain't your average radler. The question I've got to ask myself is, would I take Bellwoods' reimagining over a traditional grapefruit radler (for example, Stiegl's)? If I'm being honest, on those occasions where I am craving a radler, the answer would probably be 'no'. That being said, Wild Radler is creative and intriguing enough to be worth revisiting, and I enjoyed my glass quite a lot. I would absolutely recommend this to all radler fanatics, and that goes double for those with a side-interest in funky sours.
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