Not Your Father’s Fruit Punch
Small Town Brewery in Wauconda, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.79
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle. So it basically looks like fruit punch, Smells like fruit punch and it tastes like fruit punch. Nothing beer about it.
It’s so good except for the hint of chemical it has. It’s so close though. Keep going, you are my only hope now that my shandy brewery is closed. (RIP traveler beer)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 1/19/2018. Pours crystal clear deep ruby red/orange/amber color with no head or lacing. Good appearance. Aromas of big orange juice, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, apricot, guava, strawberry, red apple, white sugar, and light herbal/grassy hops. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/tropical fruits and sugary malt sweetness; with big strength. Taste of big orange juice, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, apricot, guava, strawberry, red apple, white sugar, and light herbal/grassy hops. Light-moderate fruity tang/tartness, and mild herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of orange juice, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, apricot, guava, strawberry, red apple, white sugar, and light herbal/grassy hops on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical fruits and sugary malt sweetness; with a fantastic malt/sugar and tart/tangy fruit balance; with zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering fruit tang/tartness. Zero carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth and moderately sugary/acidic/tangy/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is fantastic. Slightly slick/syrupy. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an excellent fruit beer. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical fruits and sugary malt sweetness; extremely smooth and refreshing to drink with the mellowly acidic/tangy/drying finish; went down like water. Great juicy fruit profile and balanced sugary malt backbone. Lightly sweet with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive style example. Tastes 100% like Hawaiian punch so they nailed it. I don't care if it doesn't taste like beer unlike everyone else.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Beer and the glory of all its infinite gyrations. How interesting. It pours like deep red koolaid. Smells like sweet cherry koolaid. It actually tastes like overly sugary sweet koolaid, and I may say, a little better than expected. Slight warming sensation. This is not beer and I'm not sure if it has any punch in it, its mostly dominated by cherry. This artificial sweet mess of a brew needs its own style. Warming sensations in gullet during the session. I really don't think you can call this beer? Well, sake is! No carbonation through-out. This has nothing in common with beer. Let me go back and check the ABV. It tastes like 1%. Slight hints of sweet fruit tartness on the finish. Oddly, in the end, it does not necessarily come across as artificial. Not quite an insult to the word beer. If you mix this half and half with your favorite ice cold cheap pale lager, the taste and palate tremendously improve, heheheh.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 7
Pours a clear red color with absolutely no head or lacing. Pours like Kool-aid. Sweet, fruity Kool-aid aroma too. Surprise! It tastes like fruit punch Kool-aid. Same non-carbonated flat mouthfeel as fruit juice. How is this considered beer? Alco-pop. That said, it's very tasty and easily poundable. Great fruit punch; Lousy "beer."
Flavor is fine...but it’s not carbonated?
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Why do I do these things to myself? 12 ounce bottle. Clear red. No head, and no carb escaped when I opened the bottle. Bad seal? Aroma of fruit punch. Taste is fruit punch, cherry forward. Thin, flat. It is what it is. At least it's a decent fruit punch.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a cherry candy red with no head and no lacing. The aroma was Hawaiian Punch. The flavor was super sweet Hawaiian Punch. Long finish. Light body.