Refresher
Side Launch Brewing Company
- From:
- Side Launch Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.47 | pDev: 4.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 08, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 21, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TerryW from Canada (ON)
3.43/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Not much too look at. Basically a delicately pale pink rose-coloured liquid. Very short head goes to zero. No lace of any sort. Tart on the nose and on the palate with a spritzy bite. Indeterminately fruity to taste, Lemon, I suppose. A touch of wheat on the nose and to taste, some yeast. Common summer cooler stuff from a brewery that has a portfolio of much more interesting brews.
Sep 08, 2022
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.29/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours a Goldie pink colour, with a loose but thick white head. Sour on the smell. The taste is tangy and tart, and sour. Perhaps a bit of lemon and/or raspberry but if any, not much.
Aug 29 2022
Aug 30, 2022Aug 29 2022
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.69/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.69/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated May 10 2022 and served barely chilled.
Pours a clear, pale rose colour, topped with one finger of foamy, frothy white head that settles off within ninety seconds or so; a tight collar is the only remnant of note. Hints of armpit funkiness from the lacto sourness, with suggestions of wheat, citrus, and very faint raspberry. If you're going to crowd the label with images of raspberries and lemons, then they ought to be a little more pronounced.
Fortunately, it tastes pretty good - the sourness is present but minimized, giving this brew a lemonade-like flavour profile that I found enjoyable, albeit not very interesting. Very light raspberry tartness at the forefront, with hints of wheat and grainy pale malt sweetness also coming through; lemon zestiness on the back end, with light lactic sourness and a hint of raspberry carrying on into the aftertaste, which trends dry. Light in body, with assertive carbonation that feels zippy and prickly on the tongue, with a smooth, somewhat frothy mouthfeel that makes for a very sessionable fruited sour.
Final Grade: 3.69, a serviceable B grade. Side Launch's Refresher would work perfectly as an introductory sour: the raspberry and lemon seem to supply most of the tartness/sourness, while the lacto-derived funk and acidity is barely perceptible for the most part. Nothing to get excited about, but it's light and thirst-quenching - and who doesn't like raspberry and lemon? I'd consider buying this again, but I wouldn't call it a must-try - all in all, it made for a satisfactory conclusion to nearly one month of reviewing almost nothing but fruity sour stuff.
Jun 28, 2022Pours a clear, pale rose colour, topped with one finger of foamy, frothy white head that settles off within ninety seconds or so; a tight collar is the only remnant of note. Hints of armpit funkiness from the lacto sourness, with suggestions of wheat, citrus, and very faint raspberry. If you're going to crowd the label with images of raspberries and lemons, then they ought to be a little more pronounced.
Fortunately, it tastes pretty good - the sourness is present but minimized, giving this brew a lemonade-like flavour profile that I found enjoyable, albeit not very interesting. Very light raspberry tartness at the forefront, with hints of wheat and grainy pale malt sweetness also coming through; lemon zestiness on the back end, with light lactic sourness and a hint of raspberry carrying on into the aftertaste, which trends dry. Light in body, with assertive carbonation that feels zippy and prickly on the tongue, with a smooth, somewhat frothy mouthfeel that makes for a very sessionable fruited sour.
Final Grade: 3.69, a serviceable B grade. Side Launch's Refresher would work perfectly as an introductory sour: the raspberry and lemon seem to supply most of the tartness/sourness, while the lacto-derived funk and acidity is barely perceptible for the most part. Nothing to get excited about, but it's light and thirst-quenching - and who doesn't like raspberry and lemon? I'd consider buying this again, but I wouldn't call it a must-try - all in all, it made for a satisfactory conclusion to nearly one month of reviewing almost nothing but fruity sour stuff.
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