Sour Me - Double Triple Berry
DuClaw Brewing Co.

The pour is cherry blossom colored. The taste is mainly raspberries along with strawberries & blackberries. Cheers! B

I don't see a date listed on the can or the label.

Appearance: The body is a dark shade of amber which is very hazy. Faint shadows are visible through the glass but it is difficult to identify anything more than a rough shape. A medium-large tobacco stained off-white colored head adorns the top with a creamy texture with a fluffy cloud-like shape. It has decent head retention and it leaves some thin, receding sheets of lacing on the glass as the head fades out.

Aroma: It has a light raspberry aroma which smells a bit sickly which is typical of real fruit. There is a bit of a cream of wheat aroma as well.

Taste: Up front there is a raspberry flavor which is slightly tart. Towards the middle there is a bit of a wheat cracker flavor which creates a bit of a baseboard for the beer. The back of the palate has a slightly vinous character.

Mouthfeel: It feels on the upper edge of light bodied. Carbonation is on the high side but it seems to work well enough for this beer. The beer is easy to drink. The label states that this is "7% ALC/VOL" and it does a very good job of concealing that.

Overall: It's a pretty solid beer if you're looking for something that is pleasant and drinkable with a bit of berry flavor. The label states that this is an "ALE WITH STRAWBERRY, BLACKBERRY & RASPBERRY PURÉES." The raspberry character comes through but the other berry flavors do not. As a whole it was simple yet pleasant enough that I would drink it again and recommend it to anyone who might enjoy a beer with some berry flavor.

Medium darkness of yellow/copper. White nose. Super lemony bitterness on nose, which is deceptive as the taste is very soft and only slightly bitter of lemon. Pretty dry.

DuClaw Brewing Co. "Sour Me - Double Triple Berry"
16 fl. oz. can coded "SM3B-20-121522 CANNED ON 01/11/23" and sampled on 05/28/23.
$2 @ Weis, Conshohocken, PA

Notes via stream of consciousness: This should be interesting. It's an Imperial Sour Ale with strawberry, blackberry, and pink raspberry. There's no mention of flavorings on the label so it must all be real. It's poured a lightly hazy deep golden/amber colored body beneath a finger's width of white foam. The aroma is certainly berry-like! I actually get the strawberry, which is interesting, but I can't make out the other specific berries, and in fact I'm not een sure what a pink raspberry is. On to the taste... it's not that tart against the sweet malt that's there, and the berries come through clearly. The malt is sweet and wheaty, and there's some mineral character from the yeast. I can tell that it's a bigger beer with additional strength present but the alcohol doesn't really step forward. How strong is it? It's 7% which is fairly high, and that makes sense. If it were 8% I'd expect the alcohol to be pretty clear and have more of an effect. As it is you can tell that there's alcohol there but it doesn't snap at you. In the mouth it's medium-full in body and gently crisp with a little extra feel on the tongue due to both the acidity and the alcohol. In all honesty I think it could use a little more carbonation but maybe that's just me. Now here's my only problem with this beer, and it's a minor one. The head dropped rather quicky and it left next to nothing behind in terms of lacing. That's expected for sour beers but this one also has a lot of residual sugar to it. On the other hand, it also has a higher alcohol content which will also kill the head. I just think it could have been better, that's all. Don't expect to sit on the back porch and drink a few of these though, that 7% ABV will get to you. I see it as a 'start the night off right beer' where you then tone it down, or a sipper that you just nip at but it could also be a dessert beer or an ingredient in a dessert that you make.
Review #8,639

It’s a nice beer. Smooth for a 7% ABV.

A the crack of opening a pint can, a poignant aroma of berries is had. The full pour of its contents into a clear glass liter mug only dissipates the intensity. Still, it smells like a berry flavored drink, not a beer. But, a beer is what it looks like. It's bright copper-amber in color, although it's rather translucent and headless. Glass lacing is not expected, nor should it be from this style. The taste is almost like medicine, with a presence of alcohol and the berry flavors. That doesn't make this horrible, but it's certainly not great. The one important thing it's not is sour. Maybe somewhat tart, but barely sour. Neither is it bursting with berry flavor. The berries dominate any hop and malt contributions, but only slightly. There is no standout flavor here. The seven percent ABV is pleasantly a part of the taste experience, sadly the best attribute of the brew. Thinly bodied, maybe not so much for the style, this does go down easily. So do some hard seltzers. This is a solid step above those, but it's not a good beer drinking experience.

 

We've seen several basketball stars score a triple-double during a game, but never a double-triple. We'll just leave that to the craft beer starts of DuClaw Brewing. Chocked full of strawberry, blackberry and pink raspberry and then propped up with seven percent in alcohol and that lofty feat has finally been reached.

Sour Me, Double Triple Berry teases the nose immediately tangy berries, citrus, cider and a light musk of dough. Pale pink and slightly hazy, the spritzy beer falls short just before the first sip of berry juice, light sucrose and sourdough hits the tongue.

An undercurrent of green apple, white wine, lime, lemon and passionfruit all stem from the fermentation character of the ale while the more robust red berry and dark berry flavors provide a bright and rounded spiked punch taste. Playfully tart, but shy of any intense sourness, the ale closes with notions of wine spritzers, rhubarb and cranberry.

Medium bodied, not quite dry and not quite fully flavored, this rendition of Sour Me sells bold promises but is simply somewhat banal in comparison. Laced with lactic acid, the ale finishes clean, crisp and semi-refreshing with a brief berry and sourdough aftertaste.