Brewsters Fruit Hog Red Grapefruit White Ale

Brewed by Brewsters Brewing Co. - Alberta
Style: Fruit Beer
Calgary, Canada

Serve in Flute

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Grapefruit? There is none. Faint yellow and a thin head - not appealing. Smells just like cream soda. Then there is what could be some some aroma from a carnival, maybe I DON’T KNOW!!! cherry? A sour candy? The taste is very sweet and obviously cream soda, ever effervescent like cream soda. There is wheat here. Fizzy. What why.

Pint on tap at Oliver Square location in Edmonton. Poured pale golden color with little white head and spots of lacing. Served with a slice of grapefruit on side of glass. Aromas of grapefruit and cereal. Taste is lightly sweet malts and grapefruit finishing with a dry hoppy bitterness and then more grapefruit. A nice enough beer with the fruit not being too overpowering in the flavor.
Earlier Rating: 8/10/2011 Total Score: 2.7
Pint on tap at Brewsters Oliver Square location in Edmonton, AB. Pale straw color with ring of head on edge of glass. Was served with a half slice of grapefruit on rim of glass. Aroma was grapefruit. Taste was light malt and grapefruit. Light bodied and little carbonation.

With a whole series (Fruit Hog), random tap life and so many flavours the question is obviously whether this is a stock beer with different fruit flavour added and at what point in the process. Tap. Amber with no head but still some light lacing. Thin grapefruit aroma even with grapefruit on the glass. Thicker body than expected and a bit sugary. Grapefruit flavour builds as you drink but may also have been caused by eating the pink grapefruit wedge.