Red Fruit Pastry Sour
Totem in Evergem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Smoothie / Pastry Regular|
Score
7.01
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Red Fruit Pastry Sour from Totem 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
20 June 2025. “Iets voor den Erwin” @ Dracuna. Cheers to the whole GBV crew!
Carré confiture, raspberry coulis, unripe strawberry, almond, wheat, redcurrant. Sweetish-sour redcurrant and raspberry, sweetish jam with a touch of vanilla. Dry finish of berry skin & raspberry seed. Light to medium body. Straightforward, perhaps, but so elegantly executed.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Red Fruit Pastry Sour from Totem 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Can at home shared with Laura. Bright darker red color, virtually no head. Aroma is weird, it reminds me of pudding, desserts. Fruit, yoghurt, sweetness and distant chocolaty notes. Flavor is sour and red fruit. Berries mainly imo. Berry juice. Not my thing but I think it is what the label says, so we'll done.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Red Fruit Pastry Sour from Totem 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
A clear pinkish red beer with a white lacing. Aroma of sour red berries, grapes, brett. Taste of sour dry tart cherries blueberries, lacto, not too sweet.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Red Fruit Pastry Sour from Totem 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Totem is back after a period of discontinuation – good news for the Flemish craft beer scene, I hasten to say – and builds on a theme they already explored before with elegance and bravoure: the fruited pastry sour. This one seems perhaps a tad less exotic than its predecessors, in using ‘red fruits’: cranberry, raspberry and redcurrant, possibly an ironic nod to the rouge hype still plaguing Belgium… Anyway, thanks tderoeck for sharing the can! Medium thick, pale pink, opening and dissolving head, hazy ruby red robe with fuchsia glow. Aroma of molten raspberry ice cream of the kind my grandmother offered me as a child, candied cherries as on ‘rijstpap’, sweetened fruit yoghurt but less ‘industrial’ than that, redcurrant coulis on vanilla flan – all aromas centering around the same theme, but very convincingly so. Same in the mouth: soft yoghurty ‘kettle sourness’ with a sharper red-fruity edge, but also compensating ‘candied’ or ‘jellied’ red fruit sweetness, together creating the desired desserty effect, especially when the vanilla comes in retronasally – flan with red fruit coulis again. A rounded cereally core supports this flavour combo but like the other pastry sours created by Totem in past years, the whole feels dedicedly, and intentionally, ‘unbeery’ – but given how this brewer has always sought to explore the novelties in craft beer, and given how this particular type of beer could in no way be better if it were more ‘beery’, this is a strength rather than a flaw; in fact, with this and its preceding creations, it is safe to say that Totem is (by far even) the leading pastry sour producer in Belgium, with ‘leading’ in the qualitative sense rather than quantitative, of course…
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Red Fruit Pastry Sour from Totem 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
2/XI/24 - 33cl can from the brewer, shared @ home, BB: 16/XII/23 (2024-1177) Thanks to Klaas for the can!
Pretty cloudy deep ruby red beer, creamy pinkish head, a little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of vanillin, red fruits, raspberries, some lactose, raspberry coulis, nice! MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sour, citrus, vanilla, sweet impression at first, but then it’s actually not sweet at all, very acidic even, very nice! Aftertaste: red fruits, berries, dry, sourish, vanillin, very nice, fruity, more berries, very intense, nice, more vanillin, lovely beer!