This was an interesting one. I haven’t really had too many “smoothie” beers of the fruited sour variety, but I’d received a can of Pineapple & Mango Smoothie Gose Sour from Public Coast Brewing a little while back, so it was a chance to try out the style (substyle? variant? genre?). I was definitely not sure what I was getting into.

It’s 4.8% alcohol by volume, no idea what the IBUs might be (presumably no more than 10). I don’t know how much was brewed, but the website at the time described this beer as, “Sweet, lush pineapple joins mango and a hint of hand-harvested sea salt from Jacobsen Salt Co. in our Sour Gose Smoothie.”

Appearance: Dark orange slurry, like thick unfiltered apricot juice, with almost no head or apparent carbonation. Something of a film or a slick on top. The appearance is not terribly appealing.

Smell: It smells a bit like apricot puree with mango—or baby food. Raw fruit, fruit skin, no tart notes. No real pineapple profile either. It’s decidedly non beer-like.

Taste: There’s some tart character—a slightly salty gose profile—in the flavor, along with big juicy fruit flavors where I’m now getting the pineapple juice and fresh mango. Tastes much better than it looks. It does indeed taste like a fruit smoothie, which of course makes it hard to find any traditional “beer” here.

Mouthfeel: Full-bodied as a thick milkshake smoothie, just as the name says, sweet and fruity with a light tang in the finish. Viscous.

Overall: It tastes fine, otherwise I don’t really know what to think, I have to get my head around this as any kind of “beer.”