John Martin Gordon XplosioN Red Fruit

Gordon XplosioN Red Fruit

 

John Martin in Genval, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Lager - Flavoured Regular
Score
3.62
ABV: 11.0% IBU: - Ticks: 19
“Xplosion Red Fruit” (11%) has a garnet red colour and makes its mark with vigour not only via its eye-catching design, but also through the beer itself.
It presents a very powerful and fruity nose of candied cherries as soon as the can is opened. Things are confirmed upon first tasting, with a sweetness of a fairly fleeting nature that leaves an opening for the bitterness of hops and for woody notes, like those of cherry stones. It hits the palate confidently but not aggressively, leaving an opportunity for the taster to appreciate its virtues and expect that its conclusion will without a doubt leave strong aromatic traces.
The taster also experiences its solid alcohol content, implying that the beer must above all be appreciated and consumed in moderation. However, it also implies that the beverage will confer a wonderful feeling of happiness.
 

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6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

50cl can on 6th March 2026. Last beer in my 'drinking around the world' mini session with myself and no one else. Pours red with a light pinkish head. Smells of red fruits and tastes also of red fruits, can't think where they came up with the beers name! It's a fruity tramp juice and you can feel the hangover arriving as you sup it.

Tried from Can on 06 Mar 2026 at 22:11


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6

Blik thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Hey is een helder robijnrood bier met een roze schuim. Het heeft een aroma van kunstmatige kersen. De smaak is fruitig, zoet en wrang met een alcohol achtige ondertoon.

Tried on 31 Jan 2024 at 19:13


1.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1

Wie sehr muss man seine Kunden verachten, wenn man ein solches Gesöff verkauft. Picksüß mit komischen Aromen und Alk, Alk, Alk. Ich habe in meinem Leben schon viele Grauslichkeiten getrunken, aber dieses war das erste bei dem der Brechreiz 🤮gleich nach dem ersten Schluck kam. Keine Ahnung, wie man davon mehr trinken kann ☠️.

Tried on 24 Jul 2023 at 09:51


2.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

50cl can. A clear orange red colour, big beige head. Aroma of artificial sweet red fruits and cherries. Taste of artificial sweet cherries, red berries, sugar, boozy malty finish. Meh...

Tried from Can on 04 May 2022 at 19:36


3.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Deep garnet coloured clear beer, under a thick, dense light-pink head, slowly receding. Alcohol & red fruit jam upon opening, even before pouring. Red fruitsweets, intense, with a chemical addition, as from liquid soap. Sweet, medicinal (as the cherry laurel syrup added to cough syrup) with a closed, definitely alcohol-induced finish. Not really cloying or syrupy, but thick, oily feel all the same. Seems better carbonated than it looks. Chemical, artificial aftertaste The brown-paper-bag-bum version of the syrupy fruitconcoctions.

Tried on 04 Mar 2019 at 16:43


3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Can from Super U in Guadeloupe. Clear pinkish red color light pink fizzy head. Berry and sugar aroma. Taste is light sweet sweet sugarberries.

Tried from Can on 08 Dec 2018 at 23:55


3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4

Can. Pours red-pink with pinkish head. Aroma is booze, artificial berries, fruits. Flavor follows the nose. Overall: bad.

Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2018 at 18:00


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can. A hazy red beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of berries, straw, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes straw, alcohol, and berries, leading to a bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 21 Aug 2018 at 15:46


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Can@Tuesday Bottle share - red pour with white pinkish head. Veey sickly sweet fruity notes with some non descript berry furit, some cherry, cherry tunes cough sweets, very artificial tasting.

Tried from Can on 21 Aug 2018 at 15:44


1.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1

Pours hazy red with a small pink head. The ’aroma’ contains sugar, vodka (Red Bull), cuberdons (Belgian candy), faint cherry, chemical sweetener and rubber. It tastes heavy sweet, full stop. Soft carbonation, short and wry finish. The alcohol burns the throat and every taste. The only achievement of this one is that it lived up to its bad reputation: a fruit brew for alcoholics. One of the worst 'beers' so far.

Tried from Can on 22 May 2017 at 03:33