Alvarado Street Brewery Haole Punch

Haole Punch

 

Alvarado Street Brewery in Monterey, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular
Score
7.46
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 3 Ticks: 29
We employ a unique, fast souring process to these "kettle soured" ales that adds a rich, clean acidity which sets the stage to allow different fruits to shine. In "punch" (as it's referred to in the brewpub), we add passion fruit, orange zest, and guava to simulate the flavor and aroma of POG Juice (or Hawaiian Punch). There's an pleasant tartness and zesty effervescence that makes this beer literally taste like juice. Those who enjoy sour beers, or have any open mind to understand what the limits of beer can be, will thoroughly enjoy this beer.
 

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8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can - pours gold white head - nose and taste of passionfruit, orange, guava, sour lactose - medium body
Tried from Can on 19 Sep 2018 at 18:38

Tried on 23 Jun 2018 at 13:02

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Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour tart guava and passion fruit aroma. Fruity sour tart passion fruit and guava flavor. Has a fruity sour tart passion fruit and guava finish.
Tried from Draft on 14 Mar 2017 at 10:03

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From crowler shared at Ratebeer Best awards and bottle-share. Hazy golden orange color with white to off white head. Hoppy, yeasty and light malty aroma, grass, weedy, citrusy fruity, orange, lemon, tropical fruits.Light sweet, light acidic and light bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2017 at 15:35

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can shared by BuckeyeBoy at RBBWG. Moussy, egg-white, stable head over a hazy golden beer. Aroma of fresh pink grapefruit juice, blood orange, lime, sourdough, buttermilk, unripe gooseberries, plum, passion fruit. Extremely fruity onset, a basket of fresh grapefruit juice, guava and passion fruit, starfruit soapiness, unripe stonefruit sourness, minerally side notes, medium carbo, supple mouthfeel. Smooth middle on a lightly bready and soapy-wheaty basis, fruit juice effect flows over this completely and leads to a homemade lemonade-like ending, almost Radler-ish even, lots of real guava and passion fruit effects but the citrus juice factor remains till the very end. Interesting beer, basically a light-bodied Berliner Weisse drenched in lemonade-like ’soda fruitiness’ with sweetishness built on a mildly sour basis, very refreshing. I can imagine drinking gallons of this ice cold on a hot summer day. The almost over the top fruitiness sets it apart from most other Berliner Weisses, even the ones made with fruit - ignoring the old Berlin tradition of pouring sweet syrup in them.
Tried from Can on 01 Mar 2017 at 13:37

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Sampled at the RBBWG 2017. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours rather unclear blonde, no real head. Smell is floral, toilet cleaner. Taste is mild sour, very fruity. Natural, yet the combo really is soapy to me.
Tried on 28 Feb 2017 at 03:44

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Thank you BuckeyeBoy! 473 ml. can sampled @ RBBWG VI (2017). Canned 25 JAN 2017. Hazy orange, creamy white. Smells like mildly sour Fanta, lemonade, puckering, artificial soda. Taste is sour lactic Fanta, basic sour, taste is all lemonade fruit, stupidly sour Fanta like, chemical, orange, tropical fruit, lactic basic. Body is likewise Fanta. This is basically lemonade, not bad but very comical, pretty much a mildly sour Fanta.
Tried from Can on 26 Feb 2017 at 16:00

8.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 10 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Alvarado Street Haole Punch (by Alvarado Street Brewery):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.4/5

25/II/17 - 1Pt. can @ RBBWG (Beerlovers Bar, Antwerpen) - BB: n/a, canned: I/25/17 (2017-260) Thanks to BuckeyeBoy for sharing the can!

Little cloudy amber to pale beige beer, small irregular white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of grapefruit, citrus, very fruity, more grapefruit, passion fruit. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: juicy, lots and lots of grapefruit, acidic, citrus, pretty sour, lemony. Aftertaste: lemony, bit watery, lots of grapefruit. Weird how it tastes more like grapefruit than like passion fruit or guava.
Tried from Can on 25 Feb 2017 at 17:04

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Can - Guava and tropical notes. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Much like th nose with a touch of sourness. Fruity and nice.
Tried from Can on 23 Feb 2017 at 21:29

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
500mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma bursts of tropical fruits, especially passionfruit, with so much juice. Flavour is extremely juicy, with lightly tart passionfruit, lots of juiciness and moderate acidity. Very fruity and juicy, with a lightly tart and acidic finish. Solid.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2017 at 21:19