Unfiltered
Reviews
WexiLahti
@ Teva Brew4 years ago
3.9
Today's second homebrew: tropical sour ale. It colors incredibly turbid, like peach nectar. Turbidity is obvious since there are loads of fruit pure in the beer. It sinks to the bottom of the bottle, and one can either pour gently without too much pulp, or briskly to get all the sludge in the glass. The fruitiness is certainly much more pronounced with all the fruit particles. That's what I did now.
Carbonation is sufficient, livelier than that of the raspberry version. A white, small-bubbled head elevates up to half a finger's measure. Soon a neat lace ring adorns the surface.
Passionfruit and mango dominate the scent. Lactic acid comes forward much more determinedly here in comparison to the raspberry one. I can also detect a mere suggestion of fermented banana albeit the share of banana in the fruit pure amounted to 70 %. Wheat, peach and pineapple linger more discreetly in the background.
Passionfruit wins the race to the tastebuds. Sour mango is also identifiable. Banana and peach are substantially distant. Wheat malt supports from the lower side whereas lactic acid slams notably back and forth. Pineapple remains camouflaged to me this time. I find this, generally speaking, intriguing. ๐๐งก๐
The body is light. Passionfruit sits on the driving seat in the finish. It's jaunty. Pineapple raises its head above the surface again and is accompanied by mango, carambola, peach and faint banana as well as wheat malt. The aftertaste sails to a tropical island and gets coronated as a king for life.
The mouthfeel is somewhat light, despite the fruit pure remnants in the beer. It's also relatively tart and a tad puckering. Furthermore, it's acidic, juicy, zesty, pulpy and zippy. The mouthfeel is surely tropical as well as indeed quaffable.
Difficult to compare this with the raspberry licorice sour ale. I like the multiple flavors of this beer but also the intensity of the raspberry.