Fairy Floss Sour - Raspberry + Strawberry
One Drop Brewing Co
- From:
- One Drop Brewing Co
- Australia
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 10.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.34 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 23, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 23, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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This here is the first rendition we have whipped up of our Fairy Floss Sour Series.
Brewed to be dry, sweet, and fruity, we start with our classic kettle-sour base, dosed with enough strawberry and raspberry puree to keep any celestial being satiated. And, to top it off, loaded with more boxes of ol school fairy floss than should ever be allowed near a beer. A heavenly fruit filled tarty dream for your mouth.
Brewed to be dry, sweet, and fruity, we start with our classic kettle-sour base, dosed with enough strawberry and raspberry puree to keep any celestial being satiated. And, to top it off, loaded with more boxes of ol school fairy floss than should ever be allowed near a beer. A heavenly fruit filled tarty dream for your mouth.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
3.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
This is my review of this beer from the New Beer Weekend #161 thread.
This weekend's new beer is from the style no one asked for: fruited imperial pastry sours. Yes, the style that puts the beer in overbeeringly sweet; the bitter in some other beer because it sure as hell ain't in this style; and a kaleidoscope of colours that no self-respecting, Reinheitsgebot-fearing brewer would ever dream of stuffing in a fermenter.
Yet here I am drinking it.
This one, Fairy Floss Sour from One Drop Brewing Co here in Australia, pours opaque, rhubarb red. It sports utterly no head but possesses some hard-to-see, slow-moving, large bubbles in the glass. It looks like a Bloody Mary minus the celery.
The nose is raspberry fairy floss (cotton candy for you Americans), with some notes of artificial-smelling strawberry. It smells like a bag of Twizzlers mixed with a bucket of fermented raspberries. Well, in that case, why wouldn't I drink it?
While we're dipping our heads in buckets of fermented fruit, I should mention that the taste mixes artificial strawberry, spicy, fermented raspberry and a generic, musky candy flavour. In a bucket, all mixed together. Mmmmm.... buckets. There's a fermented fruit alcoholic kick at the end and a sweet retronasal raspberry note. In fact, the more I think of it, I realise this beer tastes exactly like fruit punch. It tastes nothing like beer, which is the point, but as with many of these smoothie sours, it would be an excellent gateway beer. My wife, who usually reacts to beer like something warm and salty has just gone in her mouth, said it tastes nice (the beer, that is), and it's the second consecutive smoothie sour that's had that response from her. So perhaps the International Pastry Sour Society is on to something...
Mouthfeel is smooth, and carbonation is minimal. It's exactly as expected for this type of beer, assuming this is in fact a beer.
Overall, and in case I wasn't clear, this one is a no for me, but as is often the case when I'm saying no, I suspect I'm not the intended audience...
Anyway, enjoy your new weekend, and may your beers be new and may they taste like beer.
Cheers!
#295
Aug 23, 2023This weekend's new beer is from the style no one asked for: fruited imperial pastry sours. Yes, the style that puts the beer in overbeeringly sweet; the bitter in some other beer because it sure as hell ain't in this style; and a kaleidoscope of colours that no self-respecting, Reinheitsgebot-fearing brewer would ever dream of stuffing in a fermenter.
Yet here I am drinking it.
This one, Fairy Floss Sour from One Drop Brewing Co here in Australia, pours opaque, rhubarb red. It sports utterly no head but possesses some hard-to-see, slow-moving, large bubbles in the glass. It looks like a Bloody Mary minus the celery.
The nose is raspberry fairy floss (cotton candy for you Americans), with some notes of artificial-smelling strawberry. It smells like a bag of Twizzlers mixed with a bucket of fermented raspberries. Well, in that case, why wouldn't I drink it?
While we're dipping our heads in buckets of fermented fruit, I should mention that the taste mixes artificial strawberry, spicy, fermented raspberry and a generic, musky candy flavour. In a bucket, all mixed together. Mmmmm.... buckets. There's a fermented fruit alcoholic kick at the end and a sweet retronasal raspberry note. In fact, the more I think of it, I realise this beer tastes exactly like fruit punch. It tastes nothing like beer, which is the point, but as with many of these smoothie sours, it would be an excellent gateway beer. My wife, who usually reacts to beer like something warm and salty has just gone in her mouth, said it tastes nice (the beer, that is), and it's the second consecutive smoothie sour that's had that response from her. So perhaps the International Pastry Sour Society is on to something...
Mouthfeel is smooth, and carbonation is minimal. It's exactly as expected for this type of beer, assuming this is in fact a beer.
Overall, and in case I wasn't clear, this one is a no for me, but as is often the case when I'm saying no, I suspect I'm not the intended audience...
Anyway, enjoy your new weekend, and may your beers be new and may they taste like beer.
Cheers!
#295
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