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Citrus Cringe
Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- From:
- Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 0%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 17, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 17, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
Citrus Cringe is an Orange Sour made with tons of naval oranges. Not only is it delicious, but the extra Vitamin C means your scurvy worries are over! It's a wonderful session IPA with a sour orange kick!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by thehyperduck:
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.89/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650 mL bottle picked up at the brewery and served well-chilled. Loosely described as an "orange sour crossed with a session IPA".
Pours a cloudy, pale apricot-orange hue, with a half-inch of loose, soapy white foam that rapidly recedes. A non-descript collar survives, amidst a few islands of foam floating upon the surface; looks ok, I guess. Kind of a mix of orange juice, grapefruit juice and Tang in the aroma, with some background acidity (lacto?) and a 'sweaty feet' gym bag smell. Touches of lemon grass, too, but it's hard to discern much beyond the citrus/orange notes and slight sourness.
Ooh. Pretty nice. Citrusy flavours run the show here - more OJ and navel orange flesh, with a very light, grainy base flavour. More citrus oil and bitter orange rind on the back end; hints of damp cardboard and grassy hay astringency as you near the finish. Light-bodied with middling carbonation levels that generate a somewhat crisp texture and a smooth, satisfying mouthfeel. Not a superlative example of a sour, but I'm still finding it easy to appreciate (not to mention easy to pour down the hatch).
Final Grade: 3.89, a B+. Refined Fool has taken a handful of stabs at sour ales, with Citrus Cringe being the most recent attempt, and it's clear to see that they're gradually getting better at this. I'm still getting a bit of that cardboard flavour, but the orange helps keep it buried in the background - while also tempering the sourness somewhat, increasing this sour's overall drinkability and approachability. Probably one of the best sours they've produced to date, up there with the rosemary gose - I hope to see another batch of this one brewed in the future.
Oct 17, 2016Pours a cloudy, pale apricot-orange hue, with a half-inch of loose, soapy white foam that rapidly recedes. A non-descript collar survives, amidst a few islands of foam floating upon the surface; looks ok, I guess. Kind of a mix of orange juice, grapefruit juice and Tang in the aroma, with some background acidity (lacto?) and a 'sweaty feet' gym bag smell. Touches of lemon grass, too, but it's hard to discern much beyond the citrus/orange notes and slight sourness.
Ooh. Pretty nice. Citrusy flavours run the show here - more OJ and navel orange flesh, with a very light, grainy base flavour. More citrus oil and bitter orange rind on the back end; hints of damp cardboard and grassy hay astringency as you near the finish. Light-bodied with middling carbonation levels that generate a somewhat crisp texture and a smooth, satisfying mouthfeel. Not a superlative example of a sour, but I'm still finding it easy to appreciate (not to mention easy to pour down the hatch).
Final Grade: 3.89, a B+. Refined Fool has taken a handful of stabs at sour ales, with Citrus Cringe being the most recent attempt, and it's clear to see that they're gradually getting better at this. I'm still getting a bit of that cardboard flavour, but the orange helps keep it buried in the background - while also tempering the sourness somewhat, increasing this sour's overall drinkability and approachability. Probably one of the best sours they've produced to date, up there with the rosemary gose - I hope to see another batch of this one brewed in the future.
Citrus Cringe from Refined Fool Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
3.89 out of
5 with
1 ratings
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