Alpine Cranberry Sour
Folding Mountain Brewing
- From:
- Folding Mountain Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 9.77%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 26, 2021
- Added:
- Nov 25, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Wild Canadian cranberries can be found growing on low-lying vines in beds created by alpine glacial deposits. The addition of Canadian cranberries to our kettle sour made with fresh Rocky Mountain water gives you a tart and crisp beer to enjoy anytime.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.95/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.95/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - no info on the label, so I guess we are to take this one at its name. Do cranberries grow in Alberta's alpine regions?
This beer pours a clear, bright medium magenta colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy pink head, which leaves a few instances of calving iceberg profile lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of rather tart red berries, a further lactic sourness, gritty and crackery pale malt, a mild earthy yeastiness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, a lessened semi-sweet, ok, cranberry fruitiness, musty yeast, additional generic citrus rind notes, and more well understated earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the tart/sour essences seem to be of the benevolent sort here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt watching the milky cranberry character fade into that good night.
Overall - this is a pleasant stab at the fruity sour style, with lacto as the suspected catalyst at play. Great looking brew, and just tart enough to enable all manner of fans to enjoy its refreshing qualities. Good stuff!
Nov 29, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium magenta colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy pink head, which leaves a few instances of calving iceberg profile lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of rather tart red berries, a further lactic sourness, gritty and crackery pale malt, a mild earthy yeastiness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, a lessened semi-sweet, ok, cranberry fruitiness, musty yeast, additional generic citrus rind notes, and more well understated earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the tart/sour essences seem to be of the benevolent sort here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt watching the milky cranberry character fade into that good night.
Overall - this is a pleasant stab at the fruity sour style, with lacto as the suspected catalyst at play. Great looking brew, and just tart enough to enable all manner of fans to enjoy its refreshing qualities. Good stuff!
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