Braaaaaaaains - Strawberry & Lemon
Drekker Brewing Company

 

 

 

Not bad. Not great. While it has the fruit flavors and a slight bit of sourness, the problem with it is the whole slushy aspect. It is too thick and too milky. I just got some salad fruit in it, and I was immediately reminded of the smoothies I sometimes order at work. Just seems like a lot more gimmick than anything else. It may be a good drink, but it’s not beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy and has hues of purple, white and yellow. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that quickly settled down, leaving a minuscule ring of bubbles around the edge of the glass and some lacing down the sides.
S: Moderate aromas of lemons are present in the nose along with notes of strawberries.
T: The taste starts out with flavors of strawberries and finishes with lemons. There is a light amount of sourness.
M: It feels medium-bodied and a bit smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The combination of strawberry and lemon seems unusual but works well in this fruited sour.

Serving type: can

Strawberry Lime Braaaaaaaains. Canned 06/11/21. Poured cold to a teku. The color is a murky mauve-ish. Head is a robust tower that burns down quickly. Once it does, you see the floaters and the purée quality of the drink.

Double fruited smoothie sour is an accurate description. The strawberry hits the nose in spades, with a subtle hint of vanilla cream. First sips are smooth. The strawberry tastes vine fresh. The mix of lactose gives the overall profile a spot on smoothie vibe. The lemon is tart, but not astringent, sort of like a Meyer lemon I suppose. Ingredients say there is some sea salt, which I can taste subtly, pulling the sweet and sour of the strawberry and lemon together. I can’t find an ABV on the can, but there is no burn, bite, or warmth.

Uhhhhh, who drank my Braaaaaains? It’s gone. Too easy to drink. Delicious.

 

 

16 oz can, HEY-O! WE GOT A DATE HERE! 6/18/21, nice upgrade.
Served in a Ghost In The Machine Teku.
"double fruited" got me on board.
Tipped upside down for four minutes, and then rolled seven times before tipping right-side-up and pouring at a moderate pace.

Forms a mauve color in the Teku, very muted pink and even more muted purple. I suppose mauve is the best color descriptor for it. Head nearly overtakes the tip of the Teku, but thankfully it receded before we had a spillover. Perhaps the shaken baby syndrome took over even with some gentle rolls. Super tall head (obviously), 3 fingers to start, receding to about 1 loose bubbly finger within a minute or so. Leaves a lot of unsightly chunky residue on the sides of the glass.

Aroma brings waves of pink lemonade and strawberry smoothie from the can. A nice sharp acidic character can be detected hiding right behind the pink lemonade. Pretty solid. Aroma from the glass is a bit quieter, maybe a bit yeastier.

The first thing I taste in this beer is pastry crust. But it's like, a McDonalds Apple Pie crust. Deep fried. Definitely deep fried pastry crust. Maybe fried in dirty oil. Was not expecting that at all. After that, I get strawberry yogurt, some lemon that seems to pop out far more realistically than the other two flavors, pink lemonade, and some sour acetobacter. It's drinkable.

Mouthfeel is like an afterthought. Kinda messy, acidic, not really leaving any kind of finish, but has some residue, and isn't exactly creamy or carbonated. A touch of messy heat. I get the feeling they're not really into mouthfeel at all on their beers. Probably an afterthought, maybe not even one.

Overall, umm, not bad. A Pink Flamingo beer if I've ever had one. Very Florida-ish. It's tasty, almost too sweet, but stays within that threshold for me. I kinda like it. Imperial Pink Lemonade would be a great title for this beer (but that's not haunted enough). Still overpriced and still kinda funky, but it's probably the best Drekker I've had thusfar. I need to find the Drekker beers that people are going nuts for. I must keep missing them.

My wife really liked this one and I can't blame her. Very not-sour. She's not a sour fan. Pastry thing still throws me a bit.

$6.49 @ Taylor's Pantry

Pours a thick copper orange color with a light strawberry head. Smell is strawberry and lemons some vanilla. Hashed is a smoothie strawberry/lemonade drink. Mouth has above fresh fruit with some lemon tartness, fruit is well complimented very nice ..

L: Poured from a tallboy can to a snifter glass. Had a dirty reddish color and an extremely cloudy, thick, smoothie-ilke consistency. There was a quarter inch of foamy, off white, fairly long-lasting head. Above average lacing.

S: A very nice aroma of citrus fruit, berries, vanilla, yeast, and lactose.

T: Tasted of a bit of yeast (faint - not a big factor), lots of citrus fruit (the advertised lemon), a good shot of strawberries (quite sweet, but not overdone), a bit of lactose (just enough to make things interesting), and a hint of vanilla as well. An incredibly well-balanced sweet and sour flavor. Quite tasty.

F: A good amount of carbonation with a sharp, tart finish. Medium-bodied.

O: Another likable sour from Drekker. Drinkable.

Can. Pale melon color. Looks like a peach and strawberry smoothie.

Honestly this takes like strawberry lemonade. Smoothie style sour. Some tartness. Pretty easy drinking. Not as chunky as some of the other braaaaaains. Not the biggest fan of this fruit combination.