Fermenterarna

strange weather today

por Ceit
junio 20, 2026junio 27, 2026

Summer is still creeping up, giving warning signs along the way, and it’s another good day for a sour. Fruit sour, let’s not go too crazy. I have had Fermenterarna before, in a similar style, but this one was particulary appealing. The mix of berries, the underground comic label, it’s something that calls to you. It’s kind of an odd mix with those Scandinavian breweries; on one hand they make fantastic stouts, which seems to be fitting, but they also bring out some great fruit sours, very creative, which is a little less predictable. Let’s see how Wild Berry Shower stacks up.

Big fruit aroma, with that little bit of gassy sulfur that I’ve come to expect. Balanced out with bubble gum. It’s a slightly more solemn fruit punch color, a winey pink rather than bright red. The head starts off beautifully, mostly white with just a tinge of pink, but disappears in the blink of an eye. The taste is like a liquid Fruit Roll-Up (remember those?), although a more sour version. It’s less lambic sour than candy sour, and beyond that very clean, without a lot of aftertaste or clinging. While it’s on the tongue, there’s a battle of flavors, raspberry, currant, blackberry…what’s on the can, basically. Not being much of a blueberry fan, I can’t identify them in the mix, but I think I do get just a tiny hint of vanilla right before the whole thing disappears down the throat.

Supplier: Más Que Cervezas
Price: €6.57

what we could wish for history

por Ceit
marzo 28, 2026abril 3, 2026

At some point I’ll have to be more careful with my receipts. For the moment it’s just a minor annoyance that I don’t have the exact price of this fruit sour from my dear good beer place, but I can be pretty sure it’s close to the other two. I’m straying from my path of darkness, but once in a while we need a little contrast to know where we like to be. It’s a good northern beer, from the Swedish Fermenterarna brewery. They know how to make some wild and tasty stuff, so I’m not too concerned about trying a sour. Also, raspberries are awesome, even in beer. There’s No Better Rhyme. Raspberry, Ginger & Lime, down the hatch.

There’s that gassy sour beer aroma! It’s also tinged with raspberry and lime, as advertised. I don’t think I get any ginger in there, although there is sort of a crackery scent hiding in the background. There was an exuberant head at first, but it vanishes within seconds, not like last week, although that head did collapse eventually too. Tangy raspberry sails in first, and the others might scurry behind it in its shadow. I manage to catch some lime trying to sneak by, but the ginger is well hidden. After I while I think it must be in the richness of the beer with a depth of flavors that fruit alone wouldn’t give you. It isn’t exactly an earthiness, but there’s a definite flooring to the taste. it also turns a little dusty after a while, lending more texture and making you take more notice. It’s one of those beers that doesn’t quite quench your thirst as you’re drinking it, one along the lines of wine and champagne. I could blame the fruit, I guess. Still, a fresh flavor and a pleasing color with a spectrum of sensations to please the whole year through.

I forgot to take the picture! Believe me, it was a raspberry sorbet

Supplier: La Buena Cerveza
Price: ~€6.50

that stuff’ll kill ya

por Ceit
marzo 9, 2024marzo 9, 2024

I saw it sitting on the shelf behind the bar, raising its glass, winking without eyelids. Burger Burger was not a beer to be rejected. I did have a moment’s hesitation seeing it was a sour, but it was also a milkshake inspired sour, and packed with fruit that make almost anything worth drinking – raspberries, black currants, even the strawberry. A black jacketed skeleton doesn’t seem like the most appetizing choice for the label, but the brewery, Fermenterarna from Sweden, might be making a reference to their ghostly lack of internet presence. There is a Facebook page, but their website doesn’t have much to speak of, except the posts from said Facebook page.

Slightly shocking color, although with the fruits listed I shouldn’t have been. It does give off a little puff of that fruity sour gas, along with some overripe banana. The top layer of flavor is pretty much strawberry milkshake, tangy fruit and fluffy creaminess, but there’s an undercurrent of banana and vanilla too. The raspberry and current are not immediately apparent but I suppose they add to the tanginess. On a relatively cold and wet evening, I might have preferred to pull out a stout that’s waiting in the wings, but there’s also a feeling of fun in a less common style and a creative can design. Also, skeletons totally go with windy, rainy weather. Early Halloween!

Supplier: La Buena Cerveza
Price: €7.30

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Fermenterarna

strange weather today

what we could wish for history

that stuff’ll kill ya