Kinnegar Brewing Geuzberry

Geuzberry

 

Kinnegar Brewing in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland 🇮🇪

  Sour / Wild Beer Regular
Score
6.75
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 7
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Hapu marjane, puuviljane, tsitrus, kuiv, tikker, nisu, sidrun. Ok.

Tried from Draft on 03 Aug 2025 at 15:56


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sour ale with gooseberries from this innovative Irish brewery, apparently only kegged and bottled at first, but now canned as well - bought from BeerFreakChick, cheers Dinka! Egg-white, regularly shaped, beaten egg-like and stable, firm head on a hazy apricot blonde beer with vaguely khaki-like tinge, showing disparate yet fierce strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of lots of green gooseberries in a ripe, even 'stewed' kind of way, next to apple juice, Chardonnay, young tree leaves in spring, Cape gooseberries, kefir, soggy white bread, stewed rhubarb, yuzu, field flowers. Very crisp and bright onset with a very high amount of effervescence - spritzy, but also numbing a bit at first; lots of soft, ripe, almost (but not quite) sweet gooseberry, hints of pear and white grape as well, slender yet sufficiently 'filling' mouthfeel, coarsened a bit by the strong carbonation. A lovely fruity, eventually even citric tartness and lactic, kefir-like sourness runs over a lean white-bready core, with the fruity juiciness continuing well into the finish, establishing considerable refreshment; gooseberry seeds add a very light, but important touch of bitterness in the end, only adding to the quenching effect, while citric and vaguely chalky accents linger in the background. I would have to check how many gooseberry-fruited sours I had, there certainly aren't too many around, but this one is in any case extremely bright and refreshing, utterly elegant and perfectly quenching on one of the first truly benign days of spring. Spring in a can, in a way, lovely!

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2020 at 23:19


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Large can. BBF 08/2020. Nose is glue, harsh acidic, basic & unripe gooseberry. Fizzy weird chemical soapy with harsh acidity, unripe gooseberry, glue, bit too much in many areas, too soapy, washing product.

Tried from Can on 11 Mar 2020 at 21:22


7

Tried from Draft at The Black Sheep on 14 Sep 2019 at 22:20


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Max & Stas. Cloudy pale yellow. Fruitiness, sour, yogurt, some pickled vegetables, medium-bodied.

Tried from Can on 31 Mar 2019 at 18:00


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Can from The Drink Store, AirBnB beer on laundry day. Hazy to cloudy yellow color white coca cola head. Floral fruity aroma. Taste has minimal tartness, light berries. OK

Tried from Can on 10 Sep 2018 at 13:29


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at ICBF15. Hayz lemon with a fluffy head. Aroma is sour zeast and berry. Flavour is superb Berliner weisse bitter, tart, sharp and refreshing, lovely.

Tried on 07 Sep 2015 at 08:05