Two beers. One good, one not so

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I am slowly working my way through the beers from Staggeringly Good that my daughter bought me.

Souropod

I was a bit wary when it said apricot. I am not sure that fruit belongs in beer. Calling it sour is a warning sign to me too.

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I did not particularly enjoy this beer. It was just not my thing. I had tried a sour beer at a festival a while back and did not like it much. Others may enjoy it.

Trivergence

This was much better. Trivergence is a strong 8.5% IPA. I will show all sides of the can as the illustrations are fun.

Side 1

Side 2

Back

You could taste that strength, but it was not overpowering. Nicely bitter and refreshing straight from the fridge. I had it with pizza whilst watching Sandman. Very satisfying all round.

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Cheers!

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Sour and apricot wouldn't neither be thewords that would attrackt me to try a beer... Even though... when I reconsider--- out of curiosity I'd like to try them... The other one with the funny pictures...It's another proof that marketing is doing a lot when selling! And with !PIZZA I think every cold beer can have a go! !CTP

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Hmmm, I haven't heard of Sour beers. I recently had a really nice Japanese craft beer, Yoyogi pale ale.

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Interesting, "Apricot Berliner Weisse" is has a german name, but it seems to be from the UK. There might be a story to discover.

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A lot of brewers in the UK are making beers based on foreign styles. They are trying to reach a wide market and suit all tastes.

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Berlin has become a growing scene for brewers over the last couple of years as well, I'm looking up there and am always wondering what's next. I'm not drinking any alcohol for a couple of months right now, else I would have ordered some to taste it. The artwork looks very fresh.

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I've been to Berlin a few times. I always like to drink the local beers. Nice city.

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Interesting beers. Talking of fruit in inappropriate places - any pineapple on that pizza?! Not heard of Staggeringly Good, but seems they've got some fun branding. I had some beers from 'Beer52' a while back, which had a decent range.

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I'm not a fan of pineapple in general. Not my thing. I had a nice variety of beers from this brewer. There are so many small companies trying something different. Good luck to them.

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How similar is the sour to the bitterness of an IPA? I have not tried one of them, but I think the bitterness is pretty overpowering, at least for me =)

But as you said, that is a really nice and fun illustration on the IPA. I really like it when they do things like that, you can look at them and almost always see something new and funny. Especially if you have had a few of them. 8.5% that is some Belgian strength there. =)

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How similar is the sour to the internet of an IPA?

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I have tried a sour beer before, but did not like it much. The apricots were enough to turn me off.

I only had one of the IPA and that was enough.

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That was a really nice autocorrect, it should have read bitterness, and not internet... Fixed that now. ^^

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I like beer. Apricot? Mmmm yes.....sour? I think not.

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