Athena Zombie
Creature Comforts
- From:
- Creature Comforts
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 5.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 04, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 30, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
3.61/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
16 ounce can - $5.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours a lightly hazed, hay-hued body with an inch of short-lived, snowy, white foam.
Smell: A wafting clove cigarette of a college freshman, a pinch of earthy cinnamon and tropical, citrus fruit juices.
Taste: Passionfruit sharpened by the addition of the citruses. A forcible clove note, overshadowing the other spice elements. Finishes out the same: passionfruit, citric citrus and clove.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-plus body.
Overall: I was going to say it's a bit like a whimsical cocktail, but then see it's openly proclaiming to be "tropical cocktail-inspired." Well, okay. Looks like we're all on the same page, then.
Dec 04, 2021Appearance: Pours a lightly hazed, hay-hued body with an inch of short-lived, snowy, white foam.
Smell: A wafting clove cigarette of a college freshman, a pinch of earthy cinnamon and tropical, citrus fruit juices.
Taste: Passionfruit sharpened by the addition of the citruses. A forcible clove note, overshadowing the other spice elements. Finishes out the same: passionfruit, citric citrus and clove.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-plus body.
Overall: I was going to say it's a bit like a whimsical cocktail, but then see it's openly proclaiming to be "tropical cocktail-inspired." Well, okay. Looks like we're all on the same page, then.
Reviewed by JohnnyHopps from Indiana
3.94/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - The beer poured an orange-yellow color with a white head.
Smell - The fruit did not really jump out in the nose. It was citrusy, but light.
Taste - There was definitely passionfruit. The promised grapefruit, pomegranate, lime, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and vanilla did not really appear. The creaminess in back could have been vanilla or lactose. Passionfruit was still present in the finish.
Mouthfeel - The fruit made an otherwise bubbly beer stout-like.
Overall - This was not my favorite Athena.
Feb 20, 2021Smell - The fruit did not really jump out in the nose. It was citrusy, but light.
Taste - There was definitely passionfruit. The promised grapefruit, pomegranate, lime, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and vanilla did not really appear. The creaminess in back could have been vanilla or lactose. Passionfruit was still present in the finish.
Mouthfeel - The fruit made an otherwise bubbly beer stout-like.
Overall - This was not my favorite Athena.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
16 fl oz pull-tab can courtesy of my friend Zed - thanks, bruv!
7% ABV. Berliner weisse brewed with "Passion Fruit [sic], Grapefruit, Pomegranate, Lime, Cinnamon, Clove, Ginger, & [sic] Vanilla."
Served cold into stemware.
Disguises its ABV really well, and brings plenty of fruit to the fore in tandem with the usual wheat malt and tangy lemony acidity. Not as sour as would be ideal...maybe a 4/10 in terms of sourness intensity. Pomegranate, lime, vanilla, and passionfruit do come through but I don't get any of the other spices (especially not ginger...that doesn't emerge at all) or the ostensible grapefruit. There's no grapefruity bitterness at all, nor is there hop bitterness.
The fruit bends tropical; I think the passionfruit dominates. Luckily, there's no lactose sugar or other unneeded sweetness muting the bacterial sourness or fruits. Finishes fruity and tropical, making this 7% ale impossibly refreshing.
Shockingly drinkable for its unnoticeable yet high ABV. A solid Berliner weisse, but it doesn't really deliver on all the fruits and spices they ostensibly used. I mean there's zero cinnamon, ginger, and clove in this - not that I want there to be anyway. They'd have been better off picking one or two fruits and really executing them fully instead of dumping in the hodgepodge of barely present fruits haphazardly, but in spite of the fruits' shallowness this is a well crafted expression of the style that will please discerning drinkers. Balanced despite how complicated they've managed to make what should be a straightforward beer. Just needs more depth of flavour and expressiveness.
High B- / WORTHY
Nov 15, 20207% ABV. Berliner weisse brewed with "Passion Fruit [sic], Grapefruit, Pomegranate, Lime, Cinnamon, Clove, Ginger, & [sic] Vanilla."
Served cold into stemware.
Disguises its ABV really well, and brings plenty of fruit to the fore in tandem with the usual wheat malt and tangy lemony acidity. Not as sour as would be ideal...maybe a 4/10 in terms of sourness intensity. Pomegranate, lime, vanilla, and passionfruit do come through but I don't get any of the other spices (especially not ginger...that doesn't emerge at all) or the ostensible grapefruit. There's no grapefruity bitterness at all, nor is there hop bitterness.
The fruit bends tropical; I think the passionfruit dominates. Luckily, there's no lactose sugar or other unneeded sweetness muting the bacterial sourness or fruits. Finishes fruity and tropical, making this 7% ale impossibly refreshing.
Shockingly drinkable for its unnoticeable yet high ABV. A solid Berliner weisse, but it doesn't really deliver on all the fruits and spices they ostensibly used. I mean there's zero cinnamon, ginger, and clove in this - not that I want there to be anyway. They'd have been better off picking one or two fruits and really executing them fully instead of dumping in the hodgepodge of barely present fruits haphazardly, but in spite of the fruits' shallowness this is a well crafted expression of the style that will please discerning drinkers. Balanced despite how complicated they've managed to make what should be a straightforward beer. Just needs more depth of flavour and expressiveness.
High B- / WORTHY
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