Mandarin Pastry Sour
Totem in Evergem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Smoothie / Pastry Regular|
Score
7.31
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Hop : Chinook
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Mandarin Pastry Sour from Totem 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!
Bright orange. Lots and lots of mandarin zest & juice, lime, orange peel, fresh multifruit juice. Sour mandarin, lime, mango. Tart mandarin zest, lemon. Average to fizzy carbonation. Bright, fresh and zesty.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Mandarin Pastry Sour from Totem 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
30/IX/23 - 33cl can from the brewer, shared @ home, BB: 8/II/24 (2023-794) Thanks to Klaas for the can!
Rather cloudy blond to almost orange beer, big creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity start, mandarins, canned mandarins, some vanillin, a bit oxidized, cardboard, marmalade, sweet impression. MF: very lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: sourish start, mandarins, lots of vanillin, a bit lemony, acidic. Aftertaste: more mandarins, sour, a little bitter, vanillin, hint of blueberry, some lactose.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Mandarin Pastry Sour from Totem 2 years ago
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Mandarin Pastry Sour from Totem 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
The second one in a series of new pastry sours by Totem; while the first one combined banana and kiwi, this one goes all citrusy and uses mandarin and calamansi (a Philippine hybrid of mandarin and kumquat). Thanks to Klaas, the brewer, for sharing! Moussy, opening, egg-white head, opaque orangey-golden robe with deep apricot tinge. Aroma extremely citrusy in a very perfumey and refreshing way: lots of mandarin and calamansi of course, freshly squeezed orange juice, marmalade even, banana, Orangina lemonade, orange-flavoured fruit yoghurt, vanilla, whipped cream. An extreme wave of sweet-and-tart citrus in the mouth, loads and loads of mandarin and calamansi but still feeling natural and refreshing, hints of lemon and orange, the first connecting with the underlying yoghurty lactic acid, mitigated by sweetness and creaminess, as well as additional fruity notes of banana, cherimoya, mangosteen and yellow kiwi. Nevertheless, everything remains soaked in citrus from beginning to end, in a way I never encountered before - not even in actual citrus-based drinks. A milky creaminess softens the sour aspect of this huge citrus flavour and accentuates its sweetness, but the balance between sweet and sour is maintained till the end. Baffling example of this new generation of smoothie sours, I had a few now and I am beginning to understand the appeal they may have on the latest generation of craft beer drinkers - but this one beats them all, this is immensely citrusy - more citrusy than citrus, in a way... I was absolutely stunned by this, 'unbeery' as it may be. One that delivers a smile instantly, even more bright and radiant than its predecessor.