Strawberry Letter 23
DuClaw Brewing Co.
- From:
- DuClaw Brewing Co.
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #3,789 - ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #28,775 - Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 11.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 14
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 17, 2025
- Added:
- Aug 21, 2018
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 7
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
Named after the popular hit, ‘Strawberry Letter 23,’ this brew blurs the lines between IPA, Sour Ale, and Fruited Ale. Brewed with Lactose, London Ale III yeast, Mosaic Lupilin Powder, soured with Lactobacillus Delbrueckii, and fermented on top of ripe Strawberries: This brew is super unique and you won’t want to miss it!
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Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
3.19/5 rDev -15.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.19/5 rDev -15.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours murky, gold in color with one third inch head. Taste is strawberry rind and sour mix. Light bodied, high carbonation, slightly sour. Not what I was expecting. Not bad but not needed again.
Nov 18, 2024
Reviewed by IvoryBilledWoodpecker from Florida
4.15/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hazy, golden grapefruit color, swirling sediments and a meager white head with minor lacing. Smell is really good, quite expressive hops and sour berry. Citrusy hops and a some fruit present in flavor, not as impressive as the nose. Average finish and feel. This is pretty good.
Dec 16, 2022
Reviewed by PathofChaos from Maryland
3.59/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance:
Hazy, honeybee yellow with a tall, white top hat. Retains about as well as most of your high school friends did and yields slippery, broken lacing.
Bouquet:
Big, burly buckwheat barrels up your nostrils and clocks your cranium. The collision leaves echoes of fruity sours. As your olfactum reels from its wheaty concussion, bits of strawberry jelly spin about peripherally.
Feel:
A sweet, feather-light ale with carbonation that’s outspoken but remembers to use an indoor voice.
Taste:
Ripe strawberry jam on slim wheat toast sidles up close while, conveniently, the hops and fruit sours inattentively chaperone at a distance.
May 17, 2021Hazy, honeybee yellow with a tall, white top hat. Retains about as well as most of your high school friends did and yields slippery, broken lacing.
Bouquet:
Big, burly buckwheat barrels up your nostrils and clocks your cranium. The collision leaves echoes of fruity sours. As your olfactum reels from its wheaty concussion, bits of strawberry jelly spin about peripherally.
Feel:
A sweet, feather-light ale with carbonation that’s outspoken but remembers to use an indoor voice.
Taste:
Ripe strawberry jam on slim wheat toast sidles up close while, conveniently, the hops and fruit sours inattentively chaperone at a distance.
Rated by Captain69 from Illinois
3/5 rDev -20.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -20.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
hard to say if ti is an ips or a sour . mite be the first of this type I have ever tried. smooth light strawbeery flavor
May 06, 2021
Reviewed by JerzDevl2000 from New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Anyone else listening to Shuggie Otis while drinking this? I had to put it on because of the name of this beer but because it finally got cold and dark out here and I need something to brighten me up. I thought that this beer would remind me of spring and in an odd way, it kinda did. What it didn't remind me of was an IPA as this was a Fruit / Field beer more than anything else!
Nice, golden pour to this as it was topped off by a thick head and was full of lots of little bubbles. Almost no lacing was left behind as there were just a bit of bubbles behind along the lower half of my pint glass. Lots of strawberries, outdoor funk, and yeast in the nose, the taste was just as natural, juicy, and sour as the subtle aroma led me to believe. Not too tart and not too sour, the fruit barely stands out above everything else going on here as the Mosaic was subdued enough to not be bitter or biting, although that would have made this much more of an IPA than what I felt on the palate.
Hard to pick out the booze here and there was enough body in this that this didn't feel weak or overly slick and watery. Nothing was written on the bottom of the can as I had no idea how fresh this was, although it looked and felt now as there wasn't anything floating in it. Maybe this was a Sour IPA but this straddled so many lines that it was just worth kicking back and relaxing to as the song I had queued up ran over and over again. Loved the label as a bit of lemon and spice stuck around once this was gone, like a guitar riff that fully refused to fade away...
Nov 17, 2020Nice, golden pour to this as it was topped off by a thick head and was full of lots of little bubbles. Almost no lacing was left behind as there were just a bit of bubbles behind along the lower half of my pint glass. Lots of strawberries, outdoor funk, and yeast in the nose, the taste was just as natural, juicy, and sour as the subtle aroma led me to believe. Not too tart and not too sour, the fruit barely stands out above everything else going on here as the Mosaic was subdued enough to not be bitter or biting, although that would have made this much more of an IPA than what I felt on the palate.
Hard to pick out the booze here and there was enough body in this that this didn't feel weak or overly slick and watery. Nothing was written on the bottom of the can as I had no idea how fresh this was, although it looked and felt now as there wasn't anything floating in it. Maybe this was a Sour IPA but this straddled so many lines that it was just worth kicking back and relaxing to as the song I had queued up ran over and over again. Loved the label as a bit of lemon and spice stuck around once this was gone, like a guitar riff that fully refused to fade away...
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