What beer are you drinking now? #3999

Good morning and have a good week Advocates,
this is the week leading up to one of the most important beer festivals here in Italy, where many new beers will also be presented.
Let's hope better than this.

Dugges (Landvetter, SVE) - RAINBOW - Fruit Sour Ale (with raspberries, strawberries, cherries, blueberries and cherry blossoms) 4.5%.

33cl can (€5 from the pub fridge).
On the label: "Best before: 10/01/2025".
I've already had several fruit sours from this brewery, but this is the first time.
As soon as it is opened, it has a moderate aroma of strawberry jam. Milder aromas of berries in general.
Poured it is ruby red in color, very clean.
As usual, the foam has a non-existent and evanescent consistency (like that of a Prosecco).
Rather flat beer in the mouth, with a very light carbonation in the background.
The taste is much closer to that of a medicine (Bisolvon for cough) or flavored vitamins, than to that of a fruit sour: strawberry and raspberry predominate but the beer does not find a balance between the fruity and jammy taste of the fruits used and the lactic note which should cleanse the tongue a little, but which in reality is almost imperceptible although overshadowed by the sweet fruitiness.
This fruity taste also gives the sensation of being sugary so this jammy sensation in the mouth is even more distinct.
In my opinion, an unbalanced beer that I found to be well below the level of the other fruit sours from this brewery that I had already tasted: a poorly made beer, it looks like a medicine or a flavored vitamin (the kind that is given to teenagers in spring).
I would be curious to ask if they at Dugges really like this beer, given that the others they make are still pleasant, they may not drive you crazy... but they don't even resemble a syrup like that.
Another bad thing is that I had two cans, so I have one left.



I hope for something better for the WBAYDN 4000.
Sláinte !
Cheers !

 

We did the same thread, at the same time.
On Monday morning.
Telepathy.