Malts: Munich, Pils, Wheat
Unfiltered
Reviews
WexiLahti
@ Teva Brew3 years ago
3.7
The second homebrewed Fruited Sour Ale. This has pear 🍐 and pineapple 🍍. Pear is particularly interesting since pear is fairly tame in beers and, hence, difficult to squeeze its flavor into the beer. We'll see.
And again, one can choose to drink the beer with or without fruit mash. This glass is without.
The beer pours semihazy, amber, and certainly less orange than yesterday's peach version. Carbonation seems to be less extrovert and behaves better. Yet, a pure white, silky head emerges on the top up to one finger's level. Retention is long.
Pear is indeed detectable in the scent. It's not strong but it's there. Good start! Pineapple follows behind together with sweet apple. Interestingly, the fragrance is sweet-leaning, almost cidery, unlike yesterday's sour punch.
The taste puts forward a good amount of sourness. Passionfruit and pineapple take the lead now. Lactic acid lingers ticklishly on both sides of the tongue. A bit if lemon and sour apple accompany the package. The maltbase is fresh and portrays some wheat malt. But where is pear? Let me sip more... Is it there or not? I try hard... Maybe a suggestion of pear is actually in the background but it's extraordinarily distant. I find pear as a combined olfactory and gustatory experience but not as a gustatory effect only. I'm not surprised. We should have put a triple dose of pear puree to make it flourish in the beer. Overall quite alright albeit not a huge success.
The body is light. The finish is pretty identical to upfront. Passionfruit is the fruit that especially pops up in the finish. The aftertaste admires its pear-shaped body in the mirror while the tastebuds just can't help laughing.
The mouthfeel is light, juicy, medium-tart and moderately puckering. It's also acidic but not tropical. Maybe also drying. Easily quaffable. Overall nice but I'm missing heftier pear.