A lurid pink potion, Rage and Love Cream Soda Sour is a 5.4% ale from the team at Toronto’s Rainhard Brewing Co. The beer, sold in 355mL cans, contains vanilla, as well as a “hit” of blackberry, sour cherry, and lychee—it isn’t immediately clear whether these are ingredients or flavour notes, though I suspect the former.
Through a
modes off-white head, R&LCSS does indeed have a sweet, cream
soda-esque nose, packed with vanilla notes and a touch of cherry. The
flavour has a seriously rapid sweet-to-sour progression. The front end
is vanilla sweet, but this is subsumed by a tart and fruity finish in a
blink. The beer is only modestly sour, which makes it fairly
approachable for the style.
This little sour
ale is a quirky piece of work. It genuinely has cream soda elements,
which are a bit divisive—for instance, I don’t really love that
particular soda. However, the beer is pretty enjoyable, with modest
sourness, an interesting cornucopia of fruit notes, and a brief
sweetness.
Rating: 8.0 out of 10.
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