Braaaaaaaains - Strawberry & Rhubarb
Drekker Brewing Company

I’m gonna just take off my beer purist hat and say this is delicious and fruity as heck. Tastes like a big strawberry slushie with a dose of tart rhubarb and smooth milky sweetness from the vanilla. Drekker sure has dialed in that boozy fruit smoothie in a can.

 

 

L: A rich and opaque mauve hue unlike any smoothie brew I’ve seen and surely die in part to copious rhubarb. A quick wisp of a head leaves some minor speckles behind.

S: Sweet and fruity tartness. A soft vegetal aroma complements the berries. A hint of beer in there still lol.

T: Wonderful. Still more sour a juice than being sickly sweet and I appreciate that.

F: Like a rich but melted fruit smoothie. Right weight and carbonation for style.The rhubarb complements The mouthfeel also, just like tomato does for a Bloody Mary!

O: Strawberries and rhubarb shine in this brew more than all the pies I had as high of hopes for! Thank you again Drekker.

 

Poured from 16oz tall can into my BeerAdvocate teku. No canning date provided, though for a fruit sour that's probably not an issue.

Appearance: a murky pink-brown hue with a finger of frothy pinkish-tan foam. atop. I won't lie -- in any other context this would be horrendously unappetizing. But in the context of a strawberry rhubarb double fruit smoothie sour --- I'll allow it.

Smell: a bright strawberry aroma paired with just a slight sourness. In my experience, it's really hard to get strawberry to work in a beer, but as far as this aroma is concerned, they nailed it.

Taste: holy crap. Do other breweries just not know what they are doing when it comes to fruited beer? This is great. Rich strawberry flavor paired with a light sourness and a fair dash of sweetness. The rhubarb gets lost a little bit, in my opinion, but for me this is incredibly successful for what it set out to be.

Mouthfeel: medium body with a decent carbonation and creaminess. TBH mouthfeel is not what this beer is all about, and that's fine.

Overall: I can't really qualify this as my favorite beer. But for a "strawberry rhubarb double fruit smoothie sour" -- I can't imagine anything else being much better at all.

Can. Strawberry rhubarb color. Go figure. Thiccccc. Pink head. Beer coats the glass with pulp.

Another delicious Jamba Juice smoothie. Glad the rhubarb isn’t too tart. Nice big fruity strawberry flavor. Tropical and fruity. Like the others, hardly beer, but I love it.