Passionate Sour
Side Launch Brewing Company
- From:
- Side Launch Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 3.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 06, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 29, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Passionate Sour perfectly combines the tart and tangy flavours of passionfruit with the sweet flavours of toasted coconut. The addition of lactose provides a creamy finish to this very easy drinking sour.
Tropical ● Toasted Coconut ● Tangy
Tasting notes: Passionfruit ● Toasted Coconut
Malts: 2-row ● Wheat ● Acidulated
Tropical ● Toasted Coconut ● Tangy
Tasting notes: Passionfruit ● Toasted Coconut
Malts: 2-row ● Wheat ● Acidulated
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
4/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From the Huron Church Rd. LCBO in nearby Windsor. Canned March 29/25. My 6th beer from the Collingwood, Ontario brewery, and 5th for 2025. Enthusiastically endorsed by Sundae the cat...
Dec 06, 2025
Reviewed by scott451 from Canada (ON)
3.85/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured a 473ml can into a pint glass. A two finger white head on a hazy pale amber yellow, that soon diminished to a ring.
Fruit and yeasty wheat i the nose.
Fruit forward. Coconut. A long sour finish. Fruit and coconut stays to the end.
Light body and moderate carbonation.
Overall a pretty nice Kettle Sour.
Sep 15, 2023Fruit and yeasty wheat i the nose.
Fruit forward. Coconut. A long sour finish. Fruit and coconut stays to the end.
Light body and moderate carbonation.
Overall a pretty nice Kettle Sour.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.89/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Mar 18 2021 and served slightly chilled.
Pours very cloudy but slightly translucent; its pale golden-hued body is topped off with nearly a finger of foamy white head that vanishes within a minute or so. A paper thin collar is all that remains - not much to look at, but a lot of kettle sours aren't. Coconut suntan lotion on the nose, with the passion fruit also coming through clearly; I'm also getting hints of peach, pineapple and lactose/milk sugar sweetness. Despite not being real big on coconut myself, it's still a fairly appealing aroma.
A very nice kettle sour, with an interesting blend of sugary and acidic flavours - the wheaty malts are a mere background presence amidst notes of passion fruit, coconut, lemony sourness and lactose sweetness. Mildly tart finish, with lingering hints of passion fruit, coconut and lactic acidity. Light-medium in body, with moderately assertive carbonation that lends some bite to this brew's smooth, slightly juicy texture. I tossed my glass back in no time at all.
Final Grade: 3.89, a worthy B+. I enjoyed Passionate Sour a hell of a lot more than I expected to - not that I expected a bad beer from Side Launch, as they're one of Ontario's more reliably good breweries, at least in my experience. Rather, it was my own biases I was concerned about: I am so-so on fruit sours, and (as mentioned previously) not a fan of coconut - but somehow, this one just pulled it all together in a way that my taste buds found highly agreeable. Worth a try if you're looking for something tart, tropical, and a little sweet.
Apr 29, 2021Pours very cloudy but slightly translucent; its pale golden-hued body is topped off with nearly a finger of foamy white head that vanishes within a minute or so. A paper thin collar is all that remains - not much to look at, but a lot of kettle sours aren't. Coconut suntan lotion on the nose, with the passion fruit also coming through clearly; I'm also getting hints of peach, pineapple and lactose/milk sugar sweetness. Despite not being real big on coconut myself, it's still a fairly appealing aroma.
A very nice kettle sour, with an interesting blend of sugary and acidic flavours - the wheaty malts are a mere background presence amidst notes of passion fruit, coconut, lemony sourness and lactose sweetness. Mildly tart finish, with lingering hints of passion fruit, coconut and lactic acidity. Light-medium in body, with moderately assertive carbonation that lends some bite to this brew's smooth, slightly juicy texture. I tossed my glass back in no time at all.
Final Grade: 3.89, a worthy B+. I enjoyed Passionate Sour a hell of a lot more than I expected to - not that I expected a bad beer from Side Launch, as they're one of Ontario's more reliably good breweries, at least in my experience. Rather, it was my own biases I was concerned about: I am so-so on fruit sours, and (as mentioned previously) not a fan of coconut - but somehow, this one just pulled it all together in a way that my taste buds found highly agreeable. Worth a try if you're looking for something tart, tropical, and a little sweet.
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