Key Lime Pie Sour
New Trail Brewing Company
- From:
- New Trail Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 9.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 10, 2025
- Added:
- Jul 11, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Formerly known as 'Heliocentric - Key Lime Pie'
This ale is brewed with a selection of wheats for a soft foundation and soured with a blend of winemaker’s acids. Combined with a profusion of key lime and vanilla you have a beer with light sweetness and deep citrus with a range of tart to sour and a clean finish.
This ale is brewed with a selection of wheats for a soft foundation and soured with a blend of winemaker’s acids. Combined with a profusion of key lime and vanilla you have a beer with light sweetness and deep citrus with a range of tart to sour and a clean finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania
3.84/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16oz can into a pint glass. Canned 2/26/25, so 3 months old.
Watery yellow body, good carbonation, small white head. Little in the way of lacing. Aroma is strongly lime. On tasting, while the lime is the dominant flavor, it doesn't overwhelm. Tart and sour, decent body. Finish is a refreshing tart lime. The vanilla aspect doesn't jump out, but perhaps helps to temper the tartness.
Overall, I don't care for the dessert Key Lime pie at all, but on a warm day, one of these is okay by me.
May 29, 2025Watery yellow body, good carbonation, small white head. Little in the way of lacing. Aroma is strongly lime. On tasting, while the lime is the dominant flavor, it doesn't overwhelm. Tart and sour, decent body. Finish is a refreshing tart lime. The vanilla aspect doesn't jump out, but perhaps helps to temper the tartness.
Overall, I don't care for the dessert Key Lime pie at all, but on a warm day, one of these is okay by me.
Reviewed by Chickenhawk9932 from Pennsylvania
3.93/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.93/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a pale orange with an off white head that quickly dissipates.
Smells full on key lime pipe, dour lime citrus notes with malty graham cracker crust notes.
Taste sour lime with sherbet undertones. It has a rounded malt backbone with graham cracker notes.
Apr 19, 2021Smells full on key lime pipe, dour lime citrus notes with malty graham cracker crust notes.
Taste sour lime with sherbet undertones. It has a rounded malt backbone with graham cracker notes.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.06/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
I really (REALLY!) thought that I had put New Trail in my rear view mirror for the time being when I drank, reviewed & rated Loop Hike, but The CANQuest (tm), like rust, never sleeps & my Friday visit to Rieker Bottle Works garnered me a couple more New Trail CANs! 8=O Will it never end?!?
From the CAN: "A New Trail Brewing Co. Foreign Objects & Discord Collaboration"; "Tart Ale brewed with Key Lime & Vanilla"; "Keep Cold[,] Drink Fresh"; "Brewed in collaboration with Foreign Objects and Discørd".
I did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent since my exbeerience with this series has been that clarity is an afterthought. Following the Crack!, I CANducted a solid-stream C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. Once again, it formed a fizzy, roiling, rolling two-plus fingers of eggshell-white head that quickly dropped away into wisps. 8=( Color was a deeply-hazy/lightly-cloudy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5). Nose smelled like lime juice & my mouth beCAN to water!
This smelled like cocktail hour & that is a good thing, IMHO. Rocky the Bartender used to pull out Rose's Lime Juice & cry "Cocktails!", serving margaritas at a reduced price until everyone that wanted one had one in front of them. Phew!
Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not as watery as some, but still not terribly removed from that status. The taste was REALLY tart, but very pleasant. The lime took the spotlight, but the vanilla was an inspired addition, giving it just enough of an offsetting sweetness to make it taste of Key Lime Pie.
That is a dessert that I prefer to make, rather than eat. I took all four semesters of HomeEc - Foods in high school & wanted to be a baker/pastry chef until drugs derailed those plans & I went off to the Navy, instead. It's not a tough dessert to make, but I just never cared for eating it. I was always a bit hit at parties, either bringing things to eat or cooking while we (at least) baked. Ah, youth. I still prefer the oven over the microwave.
Man, this was really tasty! I was girding myself for some real tartness & while it was tart, it was also quite evocative of the pie. I'm not going to tell you that I am beCANming a Tart/Sour CANvert, but I am more open towards giving them a try. This one finished with a semi-dryness that was appropriate since too tart might have been too much. Cocktails! YMMV.
Sep 14, 2020From the CAN: "A New Trail Brewing Co. Foreign Objects & Discord Collaboration"; "Tart Ale brewed with Key Lime & Vanilla"; "Keep Cold[,] Drink Fresh"; "Brewed in collaboration with Foreign Objects and Discørd".
I did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent since my exbeerience with this series has been that clarity is an afterthought. Following the Crack!, I CANducted a solid-stream C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. Once again, it formed a fizzy, roiling, rolling two-plus fingers of eggshell-white head that quickly dropped away into wisps. 8=( Color was a deeply-hazy/lightly-cloudy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5). Nose smelled like lime juice & my mouth beCAN to water!
This smelled like cocktail hour & that is a good thing, IMHO. Rocky the Bartender used to pull out Rose's Lime Juice & cry "Cocktails!", serving margaritas at a reduced price until everyone that wanted one had one in front of them. Phew!
Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not as watery as some, but still not terribly removed from that status. The taste was REALLY tart, but very pleasant. The lime took the spotlight, but the vanilla was an inspired addition, giving it just enough of an offsetting sweetness to make it taste of Key Lime Pie.
That is a dessert that I prefer to make, rather than eat. I took all four semesters of HomeEc - Foods in high school & wanted to be a baker/pastry chef until drugs derailed those plans & I went off to the Navy, instead. It's not a tough dessert to make, but I just never cared for eating it. I was always a bit hit at parties, either bringing things to eat or cooking while we (at least) baked. Ah, youth. I still prefer the oven over the microwave.
Man, this was really tasty! I was girding myself for some real tartness & while it was tart, it was also quite evocative of the pie. I'm not going to tell you that I am beCANming a Tart/Sour CANvert, but I am more open towards giving them a try. This one finished with a semi-dryness that was appropriate since too tart might have been too much. Cocktails! YMMV.
Reviewed by philbe311 from Pennsylvania
3.49/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Very slight fizzy head... Color is a slightly murky hazed mustard color with some green undertones... Lime is at the forefront of the nose, also a bit soapy... The flavor profile is like sucking on a lime... Hints of graham crackers... Some faint sugary notes as well... Medium bodied and puckering... A smidge offputting to start, but grows on you a bit over time... An interesting beer to day the least, but not one I'd visit with regularity...
Jul 30, 2020
Reviewed by mvanaskie13 from Pennsylvania
2.79/5 rDev -24.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.79/5 rDev -24.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Poured into a narrow pint glass: color is straw, hazy, not too dense, thin head, bright white head.
Smell is light malt, definite key lime aroma, little much else.
Taste is over the top key lime juice, i don't get much else, no vanilla, very feint malt flavor; this is hard to drink.
Mouthfeel is an immediate pucker, which is anticipated given the style; then lingering acidic burn from key lime, light sweetness and lingering acid on the tongue; actually seems to get more puckering as it warms.
Overall this was not a beer that had much beer character, it was really overdone by the key lime as it literally tasted like lime juice mixed with some malt sugar water; I perceived no vanilla and would have liked malt character to back the 'pie' like character the name leads you to believe.
Jul 11, 2020Smell is light malt, definite key lime aroma, little much else.
Taste is over the top key lime juice, i don't get much else, no vanilla, very feint malt flavor; this is hard to drink.
Mouthfeel is an immediate pucker, which is anticipated given the style; then lingering acidic burn from key lime, light sweetness and lingering acid on the tongue; actually seems to get more puckering as it warms.
Overall this was not a beer that had much beer character, it was really overdone by the key lime as it literally tasted like lime juice mixed with some malt sugar water; I perceived no vanilla and would have liked malt character to back the 'pie' like character the name leads you to believe.
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