Coconut Berry Fluff
903 Brewers

 

 

Pours deep velvet red with a solid foam head. The fruity aroma belies its' smoothie character. The beer leaves a thick fruit film on the glass. The aroma is blackberry with marshmellow. Black currant is also present in a large part of the aroma, as well as the taste. Very sweet, with berry flavors, though little coconut to my tongue. Some marshmallow follows aroma into taste, all within the first part of the taste. Get your berry smoothie here!

Ordered from Tavour, 16 ounce can, chilled, and poured into a hurricane glass.

Look: This beer is a smoothie all the way. It pours thick and pulpy, and is a dark maroon/purple color with lots of puree. It had a 2 finger sized magenta head that completely dissipated leaving a lot of pulp on the glass as it warmed. There was no lacing, but lots of purple puree down the glass as we drank. THICK!
Smell: Fruity and somewhat floral black currant and blackberry. The floral notes really stand out, almost candied fruit. The marshmallow trails with sweet malt from the Berliner base.
Taste: Tart black currant and blackberry up front, followed by earthy berry notes. Mid palate sour pangs that almost make this a sour. The Berliner base trails with hints of marshmallow and trailing maltiness. We could not get coconut in this one. We didn’t get booze, bitter or hop notes.
Feel: Full mouthfeel, almost syrupy. The puree in the 903 smoothy series is wickedly amazing. This one is one of the thickest smoothy Berliners we have had. There is little to no carbonation, which is fine.

Overall this is another amazing smoothie style beer from 903! It starts with their Berliner weisse base that always comes through in the malty after taste, but it is most definitely an adult smoothie. We love the depth of color and taste.

Cheers!

16 oz can into a willi belcher glass.

Pours an opaque deep maroon color with a 2 finger magenta head. Great retention, like a bubbly science experiment. Leaves lacing and bits of fruit on the glass. This beer looks like something in Jeffrey Dahmer's basement.

The aroma has strong notes of blackberries and black currant, as well as the floor of your grandmother's attic.

The flavor brings lots of blackberries and black currant (duh), with some coconut on the finish. It's simple, and frankly kind of ridiculous, but it's not bad and is exactly what is advertised.

The feel is super full bodied with zero carbonation. It's a fruit smoothie with alcohol. But, that's what they were going for here so it should be expected.

Overall, this sure is a thing that exists. As a berliner, it's a disgusting abomination and should be illegal. However, despite what the can says I'm not sure this can really be classified as such. It's a milkshake/slushie style fruited "sour". It's the kind of thing that will give beer purists a damn aneurysm just hearing about, but...it comes exactly as advertised on the can. If you bought this beer called "Coconut Berry Fluff" that literally has a picture of marshmallows inside a coconut on the can, and you give it a shit rating because you expected a true-to-style berliner, that's on you. As such, it's a palatable thing to drink.

 

The companion drink to watching Mortal Kombat on HBO Max.

Look: This would be a fantastic beer to serve for Halloween, or at your local murder mystery party. Pours a thick dark crimson red with pulpy thickness from the fruit puree. A generous lacing of emulsified fruit coats the rim of the glass as the sanguine liquid is slurped up as if through a straw. Easily the most interesting looking beer I’ve had in quite some time.

Smell: Essence of cedar. This undoubtedly comes from the coconut that this beer purports to be made of mixed with the bursting berries, but overall I find the smell to take a backseat to the visual buffet this beer affords.

Taste: Lots of fruit, with a nice tartness from the blackberry, currants, and coconut that make up this blend. There’s a nice tartness to the twang that transitions to a slight graham cracker flavor in the back-end of each sip. This is a slushy Berliner Weisse, so what this beer offers more than anything on the flavor note is a puckering medley of ripe berries and sugar from the marshmallow fluff.

Feel: This beer is a hefty mega chonker, and its visually opaque slush lends to some enjoyably smooth yet creamy mouthfeel. The 6,2% ABV makes this a relatively easy beer to drink, but the thick body and goopy content actually allow for this beer to be a slow sipper that’s best to enjoy over the chopped up corpse of a hapless victim.

Overall: Coconut Berry Fluff is recommended by 9 out of 10 vampires. For us mere fleshy humans,. It’s more than an enjoyable if somewhat gimmicky beer that definitely makes its most lasting mark with its visual appeal. I will say I enjoyed writing this minor critique just as I enjoyed first seeing its viscous liquid swirl into the pint glass it was poured in, blood-soaked murderous rampage and all,