Watermelon Salted Sour
Cowbell Brewing Co.
- From:
- Cowbell Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Gose
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 1.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 04, 2025
- Added:
- Apr 12, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our Watermelon Salted Sour is refreshing, vibrant, and bold. This summer seasonal will quench your thirst and tickle all the right taste buds. It is sweet, it is salty, it is sour. What more could you ask for?
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.64/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO, included in Cowbell's Summer Mixer pack. Dated Mar 27 2024 and served slightly chilled. Reviewed from notes taken last September.
Pours a pale pinkish-orange colour, stirring up one finger of tight, creamy, off white-tinted head that melts away within three or four minutes. A frothy collar and patchy, filmy cap are the main survivors, though there's also a narrow band of lace clinging to the glass. Understated artificial watermelon on the nose, with added hints of wheaty, bready malts and coriander.
The flavours are alright - watermelon juice & flavouring are immediately apparent, with notes of salt, simple syrup and coriander. Bready, wheaty malts are also discernible, with low level lactic sourness briefly coming through at the finish; the aftertaste is salted watermelon and sugar. Medium-light in body, with low carbonation and a smooth, soft mouthfeel. Fairly refreshing, easy to drink, and not challenging to do so.
Cowbell brewed a grapefruit gose a few years ago that I liked more than this one - but then again, I usually enjoy grapefruit beers, whereas watermelon-flavoured ones are always a hard sell, so there's some level of personal bias at work here.
[Updated Jul 18 2025]
Another tallboy from the LCBO; dated Apr 10 2025, making it fresher than my last sample. Watermelon Salted Sour is no masterpiece, but if you're just looking for a fruity sour to swig back in warmer weather, you could do worse. I'm glad I had the chance to revisit this with a reasonably fresh can, but as far as fruited sours go, this is comfortably in the middle of the pack. I might drink this again at some point, and if you're a fan of watermelon-flavoured beers then there aren't a whole lot of readily-available alternatives in this province.
Final Grade: 3.64, a B
Apr 04, 2025Pours a pale pinkish-orange colour, stirring up one finger of tight, creamy, off white-tinted head that melts away within three or four minutes. A frothy collar and patchy, filmy cap are the main survivors, though there's also a narrow band of lace clinging to the glass. Understated artificial watermelon on the nose, with added hints of wheaty, bready malts and coriander.
The flavours are alright - watermelon juice & flavouring are immediately apparent, with notes of salt, simple syrup and coriander. Bready, wheaty malts are also discernible, with low level lactic sourness briefly coming through at the finish; the aftertaste is salted watermelon and sugar. Medium-light in body, with low carbonation and a smooth, soft mouthfeel. Fairly refreshing, easy to drink, and not challenging to do so.
Cowbell brewed a grapefruit gose a few years ago that I liked more than this one - but then again, I usually enjoy grapefruit beers, whereas watermelon-flavoured ones are always a hard sell, so there's some level of personal bias at work here.
[Updated Jul 18 2025]
Another tallboy from the LCBO; dated Apr 10 2025, making it fresher than my last sample. Watermelon Salted Sour is no masterpiece, but if you're just looking for a fruity sour to swig back in warmer weather, you could do worse. I'm glad I had the chance to revisit this with a reasonably fresh can, but as far as fruited sours go, this is comfortably in the middle of the pack. I might drink this again at some point, and if you're a fan of watermelon-flavoured beers then there aren't a whole lot of readily-available alternatives in this province.
Final Grade: 3.64, a B
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, from the Summer Mixer boxset from my favourite LCBO at The Roundhouse Centre in nearby Windsor. My first beer from the Blyth, ON brewery.
Feb 10, 2025
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