Kokoro Pear Sour
Fuggles Beer

Pale golden yellow in color, clear and bubbly that has loads of silty sediment settling at the bottom, pours with a double fingers worth of fizzy white head that has almost zero retention to it and leaves no noticeable lacing.

Lightly tart aroma, faintly grassy with a good amount of pear to it and the faintest whiff of a funk.

Nicely tart but not over sour front end, well balanced levels of sour to sweetness, tart green pear flavor with ghostly hints of pineapple. A bit lacking in complexity but simple and well balanced.

Light bodied with a mild sweetness to it and a fairly high level of carbonation to it, little in the way of malt flavor but a slight lactic tang on the back-end.

Ghostly hints of grass on the finish with a nice lightly tangy, aromatic pear flavor that rolls around the palate on the aftertaste. A bit lacking in complexity, simple and well balanced.

650ml bottle - yet another sour, and yet another fruit sour. Not gonna even bother researching what the hell this one's name refers to.

This beer pours a very cloudy, medium yellow straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves very little in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, musty pear flesh, a slight earthy funkiness, mild wet cardboard notes, and some tame leafy, soapy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, stale yeast, an uninteresting pome fruitiness, some subtly sour funk, lacto bacteria, lemon dish detergent, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musky verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly meek in its ennui-stricken frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, as the sourness and funk don't do this part of the equation any favours either. It finishes trending dry, the unpleasant tartness of being really starting to get on my palatal nerves.

Overall, it seems that perhaps, maybe, something went wrong here, but it's hard to really say, as these sour brews can bring a whole lot of 'he said', 'she said' shit to the table. I'm not gonna way in on that, other than to say that the so-called pear character here is pretty weak, at best.