Albertasourous Fruit Ale
Campio Brewing Co.

355ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a deep, murky pink-red with two fingers of light pink head that leaves some loopy lace as it recedes.

Smells of smashed raspberries, mixed berry jam, some crackery pale malt and a little bit of red wine sourness.

Tastes of punchy raspberries, blackberry tarts, unsalted crackers and more faint red wine vinegar.

Feels light and fluffy. Light bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes sweet and sour.

Verdict: Recommended. Nice and light and tasty.

 

18oz glass at the downtown YEG brewery.

This beer appears a very murky, dark pinkish amber colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a solid wall of painted lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of pungent raspberry and mixed black black berry fruity notes, grainy and crackery cereal malt, and very little else. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, more raspberry and generic black stone fruitiness, some damp minerality, and plain earthy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth. It finishes off-dry, the fruit and malt conspiring as such in the lingering state.

Overall - this is indeed a pleasantly rendered version of the style, with the typical grocery store frooty essences really working it. What doesn't really register is the woman across the bar from me, spending more time wiping her glass and table with sanitizers, than paying attention to the brew in front of her - I mean, why even come out? Also, the dude bros next to me just called a longnamed offering here 'non-deferential'. Fuuuck.