Today's sampling comes from one of the GOATs of not just Ontario beer, but also Canadian non-alcoholic beer - Bellwoods Brewery out of Toronto. Their non-alcoholic Jelly King series is 100% just as good as their regular Jelly King Dry-Hopped Sour series. This edition of Jelly King is their Raspberry & Blackberry Sour. I brought this with me to a wedding a while back and one of my friends made fun of me for drinking a NA beer, but as soon as I got him to try this he was flat out amazed that NA beer can taste amazing, well yeah.. the adoption of NA beer as an option will be very slow in places like Manitoba, but it's becoming more popular over time. From the website: Non-Alcoholic Jelly King is the culmination of our efforts to make a non-alc beer in Jelly King’s image, and one that can convincingly wear the Jelly King crown. We don’t often toot our own horn, but we’re really happy with the results.
Jelly King translates well to a non-alc version, as many of the flavours that make it so nice to drink come from the yeast and the bacteria used in the brewing process. We sour the base of both the beer and the non-alc in the same way, and this results in interesting, predominantly peachy characteristics brought on by mixed fermentation.
This limited edition Non-Alc Jelly King variant was conditioned on loads of raspberries and blackberries. Tart, fruity and delicious! 0.5% ABV
Appearance: This has a deep, opaque raspberry purée kind of body to it, a pinkish-purple body with a moderate amount of off-white head with a slight pinkish hue to it that diminishes gradually and leaves behind minimal lacing on the glass.
Aroma: It's a bit tart but not as tart as I recall from their regular ABV Jelly King series. It's full on fruit - tartness of raspberry jam and a tad bit of blackberry tartness. Slight amount of leafiness at the end.
Taste: Very, berry smooth NA Sour. It's full on raspberry and blackberry flavours, slight tartness to it but it doesn't give off any face puckering taste to it, pretty smooth, tad bit of graininess, pretty much all about the fruit. At the end I get a slight candy sweetness that reminds me of.. I want to say.. Swedish Fish.. I think?
Overall Thoughts: Light tartiness to it that I can definitely enjoy, lots of fruit that's full on raspberry and raspberry. It's easy to drink - if I ever see the regular ABV version of this I'll need to try that out. I think you'll enjoy this if you're a fruit beer/Sour fan.
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