Struggle Bus Breakfast Sour
Drekker Brewing Company
- From:
- Drekker Brewing Company
- North Dakota, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
Ranked #264 - ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #14,255 - Avg:
- 4.08 | pDev: 5.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 24, 2022
- Added:
- Nov 03, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
Struggle Bus combines orange, maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla, lactose, and brown sugar for a flavor that’s familiar, yet pretty out there, and well... goddamn delicious.
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Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota
4.25/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Can. Chunky head. Pulpy orange juice color.
Orange tang and maple syrup. The brown sugar and vanilla shows, but maple syrup is the highlight. Very fruity and sweet. Smoothie style. Very tasty, but not beer.
Apr 09, 2022Orange tang and maple syrup. The brown sugar and vanilla shows, but maple syrup is the highlight. Very fruity and sweet. Smoothie style. Very tasty, but not beer.
Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
4.18/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a hazy orange juice color with a off white head/ Smell is breakfast pancakes with maple syrup French toast cinnamon and vanilla. Taste follows nose its like a glass of OJ while you wash breakfast down with cinnamon vanilla maple syrup and pancakes. Mouth feel is sweet with oranges and maple syrup The Bus rocks.
Feb 25, 2022
Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden
3.9/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.9/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Pours a hazy orange with a little bit of wispy head.
Smell is sweet, triggering a strong childhood memory of peaches fried in butter, cinnamon and Muscovado sugar. Some hints of oranges and maple syrup.
Taste is sweet, very, very sweet with a tart edge to it. Notes of oranges, maple syrup, brown sugar, peaches, butter and cinnamon. Intense and rich.
Mouthfeel is medium, chewy and well carbonated.
Overall, this is tasty but weird. Dangerously close to being cloying, a whole can of this was a bit too much.
Mar 01, 2020Smell is sweet, triggering a strong childhood memory of peaches fried in butter, cinnamon and Muscovado sugar. Some hints of oranges and maple syrup.
Taste is sweet, very, very sweet with a tart edge to it. Notes of oranges, maple syrup, brown sugar, peaches, butter and cinnamon. Intense and rich.
Mouthfeel is medium, chewy and well carbonated.
Overall, this is tasty but weird. Dangerously close to being cloying, a whole can of this was a bit too much.
Reviewed by bbtkd from South Dakota
4.3/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Drekker Struggle Bus Breakfast Sour, 6.5% ABV. Pours opaque orange with no head, but lots of floaties. Nose is orange juice and a touch of grapefruit. Taste is 100% orange juice, slightly sweet and slightly tart. Excellent chunky mouthfeel, overall outstanding. If you handed this to someone and told them it was carbonated orange juice, I seriously doubt they'd realize it wasn't. Looks, smells, and tastes like it.
Nov 24, 2019
Reviewed by JackieTH from Minnesota
4.35/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.35/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours a hazy burnt orange with a trace of foam that dissipated quickly.
Smells of cinnamon rolls and orange juice — maple, brown sugar, lightly orange.
Taste is layered — there’s a ton of flavors to decipher. It’s a sipper that really grows addictively with each taste. It’s plainly sour all around the edges with a very distinctive tart orange juice versus maple syrup sweetness balancing against more orange peel/pithy tartness. Subtle cinnamon, vanilla and brown sugar notes fill in deceptively.
You’ve really got to roll this one over your tongue sip by sip and it’s not for the Berliner Weiss crowd.
Gets better as it warms. Better with each sip. Body is smooth, rich and creamy.
Overall. What a fantastic experiment from Drekker. Breakfast Sour is exactly what it is and the name sums it up perfectly. Well done.
Nov 08, 2019Smells of cinnamon rolls and orange juice — maple, brown sugar, lightly orange.
Taste is layered — there’s a ton of flavors to decipher. It’s a sipper that really grows addictively with each taste. It’s plainly sour all around the edges with a very distinctive tart orange juice versus maple syrup sweetness balancing against more orange peel/pithy tartness. Subtle cinnamon, vanilla and brown sugar notes fill in deceptively.
You’ve really got to roll this one over your tongue sip by sip and it’s not for the Berliner Weiss crowd.
Gets better as it warms. Better with each sip. Body is smooth, rich and creamy.
Overall. What a fantastic experiment from Drekker. Breakfast Sour is exactly what it is and the name sums it up perfectly. Well done.
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