Fireball
Finback Brewery - Glendale
- From:
- Finback Brewery - Glendale
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.35 | pDev: 7.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 29, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 20, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JCS126 from Maine
4.66/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.66/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Great sour - I am a big fan of sours with spice. This one leaves little to be desired. Four Quarters does a similar number with Jalapeños - also a great product. Like all finback products quality is always present. Thanks for taking the time to step out of the sour with fruit box.
Oct 29, 2019
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4.03/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Guess no one's had this yet, or maybe I'm just the first sucker to give it a shot... Fireball is a sour ale clocking in at 6% ABV which was brewed with cinnamon and habanero peppers. Ouch! Hot!
Pours a pale golden color with just about zero clarity, but it's not quite a completely opaque beer either... it has a slight bit of translucence if I hold the glass up to light, but it's mostly no dice whatsoever. Forms a thin head upon each small pour which quickly dissipates to just about nothing. Alright... it is what it is, and what it is seems average.
The nose is cinnamon candy, wheat malt, earthiness, slight citrus fruit, funk, lemon candy, and pineapple-like tropicalness, with a definite bent towards the spicier side of things. I can't detect the habaneros here, but for whatever reason I can tell there's gonna be something spicy on the palate. This smells so much like generic cinnamon candy, though, that I have a feeling that sweetness and cloying aspect is going to be tough to beat when it comes to how this sits on the tongue. Let's hope Finback has figured out the secret formula for balance with this bizarre concoction!
On the tongue, this leads off with a hit of spicy cinnamon before bending into the realm of sour candy quite acutely. Lemony acidity and a slight bit of pineapple vie for control of the palate almost instantly, as a bit of earthy vegetal-ness starts to bubble up into the mid-palate. Some peach jam and definite heat... must be the habaneros mentioned on the label. Yikes, this becomes extremely hot toward the finish with a lingering Scoville presence and a distinct peppery flavor that sticks around for quite a while. More tropical fruit (as habanero peppers are wont to add, I may mention) with a dusty, earty cinnamon linger in the finish.
The mouthfeel is rather flat and nondescript compared to many other similar-weight sour beers. I have to assume that this was either a creative decision on the part of Finback, or something they took into account due to the addition of an unusual ingredient (hot peppers) into a sour, acidic beer. Overall, I would say the feel is pretty decent when all is said and done, and the flavors are quite nice and robustly-delivered. If you like whiskey sours made with Fireball whiskey, this is certainly a niche beer completely up your alley (and, likely, totally outside of your purview, but I digress). I would also recommend this to anyone searching for a nice spicy sour. This does a good job without being too intense, and it still bears all of the important flavors you're searching for. Glad I gave it a shot.
Oct 20, 2019Pours a pale golden color with just about zero clarity, but it's not quite a completely opaque beer either... it has a slight bit of translucence if I hold the glass up to light, but it's mostly no dice whatsoever. Forms a thin head upon each small pour which quickly dissipates to just about nothing. Alright... it is what it is, and what it is seems average.
The nose is cinnamon candy, wheat malt, earthiness, slight citrus fruit, funk, lemon candy, and pineapple-like tropicalness, with a definite bent towards the spicier side of things. I can't detect the habaneros here, but for whatever reason I can tell there's gonna be something spicy on the palate. This smells so much like generic cinnamon candy, though, that I have a feeling that sweetness and cloying aspect is going to be tough to beat when it comes to how this sits on the tongue. Let's hope Finback has figured out the secret formula for balance with this bizarre concoction!
On the tongue, this leads off with a hit of spicy cinnamon before bending into the realm of sour candy quite acutely. Lemony acidity and a slight bit of pineapple vie for control of the palate almost instantly, as a bit of earthy vegetal-ness starts to bubble up into the mid-palate. Some peach jam and definite heat... must be the habaneros mentioned on the label. Yikes, this becomes extremely hot toward the finish with a lingering Scoville presence and a distinct peppery flavor that sticks around for quite a while. More tropical fruit (as habanero peppers are wont to add, I may mention) with a dusty, earty cinnamon linger in the finish.
The mouthfeel is rather flat and nondescript compared to many other similar-weight sour beers. I have to assume that this was either a creative decision on the part of Finback, or something they took into account due to the addition of an unusual ingredient (hot peppers) into a sour, acidic beer. Overall, I would say the feel is pretty decent when all is said and done, and the flavors are quite nice and robustly-delivered. If you like whiskey sours made with Fireball whiskey, this is certainly a niche beer completely up your alley (and, likely, totally outside of your purview, but I digress). I would also recommend this to anyone searching for a nice spicy sour. This does a good job without being too intense, and it still bears all of the important flavors you're searching for. Glad I gave it a shot.
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