What kind of beer is this based on?

Pastry Sour

Pastry sours, like pastry stouts, use an excessive amount of ingredients (whole fruit, purées, lactose, vanilla, chocolate, gummies, etc.) to bring dessert to your glass. Because the base is sour, you'll find that a lot of breweries choose to mimic tart sweets like pies, sherbet & cookies

Lets Get Technical (Kinda) - Style Guideline - Straight Sour Beer

Being Pastry Sours are so new and generally crazy there is not set style guide for them, the Straight Sour Beer is a guide that could be used but not everything is applicable. just drink and enjoy the silliness

Overall Impression - A pale, refreshing, sour beer with a clean lactic sourness. A gentle, pale malt flavor supports the lemony sourness with moderate fruity esters.

Appearance - Very pale in color. Clarity ranges from clear to somewhat hazy. Large, dense, white head with poor retention. Effervescent.

Mouthfeel - Light body. Moderate to high carbonation. Never hot, although higher gravity examples can have a warming alcohol character. Crisp acidity.

Aroma - A sharply sour character is dominant (moderately-high to high). Can have up to a moderately fruity character (often peach, apricot, lemon, or tart apple). No hop aroma. Supportive pale malt dominates, usually biscuity or crackery. Clean fermentation.

Flavor - Clean lactic sourness dominates and can be quite strong. Some complementary, bready, biscuit, crackery, or grainy flavor is generally noticeable. Hop bitterness is undetectable. Never vinegary or bitingly acidic. Pale fruit character can be moderate including a citrusy-lemony or tart apple fruitiness may be detected. Finish is off-dry to dry. Balance dominated by sourness, but some malt and estery fruit flavor should be present. No hop flavor. Clean.

Why is it a Pastry?

Pastry beers are typically beers that taste more like a dessert from a fancy restaurant than like a Czech pilsner. They’re the giant teddy bears of the beer world. They’re thicker than a Bond villain’s henchman and sweeter than your granny who still sends you money for your birthday each year.

Loaded with the kind of ingredients you’d normally see in your favorite tart at the local bakery these beers are packed with Fruit, Vanilla and Lactose and punch hard with Sour and Sweetness.

Hop Character is generally non existent when it comes to a pastry sour but we have taken the path often less followed with this beer with a light early dry hopping of tropical hops to complement the Mango, Pineapple and Passionfruit used in this brew

And What Else Is Used?

Fruit - Kensington Pride Mangos, Passionfruit and Pineapple are the hero fruits used in this beer with the weight of a large man of puree added to this micro batch your going to notice them!

Other Bits! - Not just fruit was harmed when making this beer! we also added many liters of Vanilla syrup, a back breaking amount of Cow sugar (lactose) and a little sprinkle of Hops to realy get this liquid tart partying!

Pale Malt - Pale malt or ale malt is the most often used malt for brewing beer. It is used as the base grain for making ales / pale ales. Pale malt is kilned slightly higher and imparts slightly richer flavors with less crispness compared to pilsner malt.

Golden Promise- a malt from a traditional barley variety grown in Scotland. Golden Promise produces a mellow wort, with a sweet, cleaner flavor than Maris Otter. it is also a bit darker than your basic 2-row, but not as much as Maris Otter.

Honey Malt- This highly versatile, multifaceted malt brings suggestions of bread crust, honey, toast, warm cereal, and toffee. Great for adding depth and complexity to the malt profiles of beer

Oats & Wheat- Of course there is a generous blend of Malted Oats and Wheat along with some flaked oats are used to to add the much needed protein for haze and silky mouth feel