Popinjay
Strange Fellows Brewing
- From:
- Strange Fellows Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 7
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
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Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
473ml can poured into tulip.
Pours a slightly hazy honey yellow with one finger of off-white head that leaves creepy tentacles of lace as it recedes.
Smells of lime zest, bright pine, unsalted crackers, summer rain, mild orange and more piney, floral hops.
Tastes of more crackery pale malt, pleasant lime and orange zestiness, light pine and cut flowers.
Feels light and frothy. Light bodied with fizzy carbonation. Finishes off-dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Refreshing and easy enough to drink.
Dec 09, 2019Pours a slightly hazy honey yellow with one finger of off-white head that leaves creepy tentacles of lace as it recedes.
Smells of lime zest, bright pine, unsalted crackers, summer rain, mild orange and more piney, floral hops.
Tastes of more crackery pale malt, pleasant lime and orange zestiness, light pine and cut flowers.
Feels light and frothy. Light bodied with fizzy carbonation. Finishes off-dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Refreshing and easy enough to drink.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.77/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Strange Fellows Brewing 'Popinjay' @ 4.5% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is gold from can to glass with a minimal white head dissipating leaving no lace along the tulip
S-floral hops
T-clean & crisp , for a golden sour not so tart & refreshing
MF-ok/mild carbonation , medium body
Ov-weak sour beer
prost LampertLand
Oct 19, 2019A-pour is gold from can to glass with a minimal white head dissipating leaving no lace along the tulip
S-floral hops
T-clean & crisp , for a golden sour not so tart & refreshing
MF-ok/mild carbonation , medium body
Ov-weak sour beer
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by Niceroad77 from Canada (BC)
3.75/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Interesting brew. Not sure about the mix of sour and bitter tastes. Sure is different but maybe should hops be reserved for dry hopping in sours? I have 3 more to drink so this will likely go either way.
Aug 24, 2019
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3.64/5 rDev +4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.64/5 rDev +4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Look: Tan-gold color. Thin head made of medium size bubbles instead of foam. Moderate bubble flow with some bubbles quite large. Slightly hazy in the first pour but the fine sediment turns the second pour very cloudy.
Smell: Funky fruit with some hop florals. Slight yeast. Very light scents, or else my nose is broken.
Taste: Funky sweet and sour. Fruit peel flavors in the aftertaste. Medium-light bitters. Second pour (with sediment) is much more fruit forward, with a bit of peach in it.
Feel: Foams up to a soft mouthfull of bubbles; a little chewy. Somewhat astringent after swallowing.
Overall: Nice refreshing flavor but it isn't as complex as other wilds and nothing like a lambic. Probably only want one of these in a sitting. The label should warn of the sediment so it can be poured into a larger glass that will take the 473 ml can in a single pour.
Apr 23, 2019Smell: Funky fruit with some hop florals. Slight yeast. Very light scents, or else my nose is broken.
Taste: Funky sweet and sour. Fruit peel flavors in the aftertaste. Medium-light bitters. Second pour (with sediment) is much more fruit forward, with a bit of peach in it.
Feel: Foams up to a soft mouthfull of bubbles; a little chewy. Somewhat astringent after swallowing.
Overall: Nice refreshing flavor but it isn't as complex as other wilds and nothing like a lambic. Probably only want one of these in a sitting. The label should warn of the sediment so it can be poured into a larger glass that will take the 473 ml can in a single pour.
Reviewed by AngusOg from North Carolina
3.85/5 rDev +10%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +10%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
If you’re looking for a serious sour, this ain’t it. If your looking for a pretty juicy ipa with a slight tartness in the finish, look no further...
Apr 20, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.57/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.57/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
473ml (@4.5%) can - interesting moral delivered via the usually banal marketing screed.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly fizzy off-white head, which leaves some sudsy layered cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of sour yeast, gritty and grainy cereal malt, muted domestic citrus rind, some stoney flintiness, and rather tame leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, orange and red grapefruit skin, a pretty faint estery yeastiness, some damp minerality, and more underwhelming leafy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly subdued in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a small clamminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes trending dry, the malt fading, with the ethereal tart character showing some lingering legs.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough offering, the promise of a 'west coast sour' more or less delivered upon. That said, it is neither too hoppy nor too sour, which makes it a genial gateway option, if I do say so myself.
Oct 20, 2018This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly fizzy off-white head, which leaves some sudsy layered cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of sour yeast, gritty and grainy cereal malt, muted domestic citrus rind, some stoney flintiness, and rather tame leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, orange and red grapefruit skin, a pretty faint estery yeastiness, some damp minerality, and more underwhelming leafy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly subdued in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a small clamminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes trending dry, the malt fading, with the ethereal tart character showing some lingering legs.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough offering, the promise of a 'west coast sour' more or less delivered upon. That said, it is neither too hoppy nor too sour, which makes it a genial gateway option, if I do say so myself.
Reviewed by souvenirs from Canada (BC)
3.57/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Nice to see a sour available in cans from this brewery. Single can purchased at Broadway Liquor Store in Vancouver.
A: Cloudy amber, frothy foamy head.
S: Fruity hops, a hint of sourness.
T: The label describes it as "juicy and hoppy", which seems about right. The sourness is restrained.
Sep 30, 2017A: Cloudy amber, frothy foamy head.
S: Fruity hops, a hint of sourness.
T: The label describes it as "juicy and hoppy", which seems about right. The sourness is restrained.
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