Krankie
Exale Brewing in Walthamstow, Greater London, England 🏴
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
5.99
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An exercise in sensory trickery and nostalgia. A rich traditional malt bill gives you all the caramel sweetness you’d expect from the soft drink, then a natural souring process gives you the tang, that’s then followed by the unmistakable flavour of the Scottish classic.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Gravity Cask at day 2 of the 41st Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 03/12/2025.
Golden copper topped with an off white head.
Nose is stewed fruit, grass, herb, grains.
Taste comprises bitter sweet citric notes, herb, sugars, grass.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close with a light tang.
Passable sour ... a little too easy going and can't say I was picking up Irn-Bru notes.
Golden copper topped with an off white head.
Nose is stewed fruit, grass, herb, grains.
Taste comprises bitter sweet citric notes, herb, sugars, grass.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close with a light tang.
Passable sour ... a little too easy going and can't say I was picking up Irn-Bru notes.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2025
at 00:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg @ Old Toll Bar, Glasgow. Clear copper with a glow and a small head. Its iron brew influence is obvious as long as you already know the fizzy drink taste, and provides a sweetness to what is a low sourness beer within that style.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2024
at 05:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Pours copper. Irn Bru, metallic, floral, little chalk, lemony tart, peach, little moldy grain. Medium body. A gimmick that is let down by a bad base beer.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2023
at 19:49
6/10
Keg at the hanging bat... Soft sweet sugerie berries fruit nose.. Light juicy fruit and yeah irn bru.. Tiny metalic edge... Given I don't like bru this is ok
Tried
on 20 May 2023
at 13:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at Malmö Crew Christmas tasting at Palace Hall (17/12/2022) - tart and sweet balanced fruity with prominent Iron bru, medium body, tart sweet fruity close, not my thing. --- Beer merged from original tick of Krankie Iron Brew Sour on 27 Mar 2025 at 05:37 - Score: 6. Original review text: Malm� Christmas tasting - tart and sweet balanced fruity with prominent Iron bru, medium body, tart sweet fruity close, not my thing.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2022
at 23:33
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Keg half-pint in The Boot Micropub, Wellington Shropshire on 25th August 2022. Smells like an Irn Brew, sweet banana dipped in caramel, the taste however is not like Irn Brew, it's more rusty and almost tart. Same colour as Irn Brew as well. My half-pint was enough, struggled to finish it to be honest.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2022
at 07:27
5/10
Tried
on 07 Aug 2022
at 13:46
5/10
Tried
on 07 Aug 2022
at 13:41
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Tap, half-pint shared with Finn at Exale Brewing. Bubbles on the surface of a clear amber body, fragile lacing. Mid-sour smell, and rather dry. Tart fruity taste offset by a sweet component of caramel. Tart, dry, and sweet finish. Soft on the swallow. Soft drink impression. So and so. (The Blackhorse Beer Mile, London 21.11.2021).
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2021
at 09:32
Tried
on 23 Nov 2021
at 18:25