Bellwoods Brewery Jelly King Dragon Fruit & Pineapple – Sour / Wild Ale at 5.6% ABV (C$13.00 at Collective, 500 ml, packaged on 16-Jun-2021, acquired 6-Aug-2021, reviewed 15-Aug-2021)
Appearance: hazy pink with two fat fingers of rocky pale pink head, good retention and no lacing. (3/5) Aroma: doughy yeast, tropical fruit, lactic tart. (7/10) Taste: moderate-high tart, moderate sweet, low bitter. (7/10) Medium-light body, lively carbonation, off-dry short duration tart finish. (4/5)
A good example of the style of Jelly King where the fruit adjunct overwhelms the base beer, to the point where any hop notes are essentially lost. I don’t dislike it, but it’s definitely not as good as the original, or as a couple of the more even-handed fruited variants. Immediately upon decapping, there’s a doughy bready yeast, but that is almost immediately overtaken by kiwi-like dragonfruit and sweet pineapple. And that’s pretty much it. What there is, is fine, and if I didn’t know this series so well, I mightn’t have had any complaints – but I do, so I do. (14/20)
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