Pikasour
Brouwerij De Backer in Massemen, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.88
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sour ale flavoured with hibiscus flowers, created by this microbrewery in Wetteren; contains rye and has been soured with lactic acid bacteria. Steinie bottle from the Carrefour in Sint-Denijs-Westrem. Medium thick, opening, pale pinkish-tinged off-white, tiny-bubbled, regular head over a clear, deep ruby red beer with scarlet shade, shifting to a more cloudy burgundy red further on. Aroma of hibiscus tea (I guess they used dried flowers and quite a lot of them), cassis (strong, oddly), cherry jam from a jar, fruit yoghurt, bergamot, strawberry juice, woodruff, elderberry syrup, hints of freshly baked bread and moist potting soil. Crisp onset, sour and sweet, very fruity with elderberry, blackcurrant, cherry and strawberry aspects - surprisingly, because unless the brewer is holding back some fruit ingredient, all these aspects must come from those hibiscus flowers; the sweetness is subordinate to an underlying, continuous lactic acidity, which remains fruity and mellow, yet does not miss its drying, quenching effect. Smooth, slick bready core, deeply soaked in this truckload of hibiscus, which after a while begins to add its floral and herbal, tea-like effect - something I have never been very fond of, but in bearing so many red fruit colours, somehow manages to increase my appreciation of it. Tart red berry-like effects even outlive that tea-like herbaceousness, with everything ending quite lively and juicy. Not bad at all, seemingly intended as a summery, fruity quencher, but feeling very 'honest' and artisanal - even elegant and balanced. Better than I was expecting, to be frank...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Head gone in seconds over hazy terra cotta beer, still. Sourish nose, as cactusjuice, agave, mezcal, purple gooseberry but also celeri, and finally, recognized hibiscus. Sour tea, tea with lemonjuice, sour berries, lactic acid and again - if less obvious than in the nose - hibiscus(tea). Very faintly astringent, light body, medium carbonation. Interesting, amusing. Txs to Stef!
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Clear pinkish red beer with a beige head. Aroma of tart cherries, mild red fruits. Taste of tart lactic cherries, grapes, brett.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Kirschiger Beginn, der zuweilen künstlich wirkt. Säuerlich, moderat würzig, nicht sonderlich rund. Weich, kurzer Abgang. trinkbar. 10/8/7/7/9/7
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
7/X/23 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 29/XII/23 (2023-814)
Little cloudy rust red brown beer, big irregular off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty oxidized, lactobacillus, woody impression, very fruity impression, red fruits, berries, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity up front, very fruity, a bit woody, lots of lactobacillus, green apples. Aftertaste: bitter touch, quite some tannins, more green apples, nice, fruity touch, red currants, good stuff!
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Hazy reddish purple colour, white foam. Tart, vinous, notes of red berries, hibiscus. Dry and tart, refreshing. Good!
Bierridder (4318) ticked Pikasour from Brouwerij De Backer 4 years ago