Venom Beer Portello Sour

Style
Fruit Cream Sour
ABV
4.5%

The team at Venom first decided to bring a drop of liquid nostalgia to the beer world via a Portello-inspired beer back in 2020. At that stage, it was an imperial fruited sour we likened to a "liquified boiled lolly" and "a GABS festival beer to sate those bemoaning the absence of the 2020 events". It proved a winner with drinkers and has returned on occasion since.

Now, it's back again for summer 2024/25, reinvented as a rather more sessionable affair brewed at Deeds: the ABV has dropped from 7 to 4.5 percent, and there's a redesigned label featuring a snake wrapped around a vial of poison. But if the potency has been reined in, the vibrancy remains.

It pours with a head that's a deeper pink than the liquid in many berry sours, while the Portello Sour's own liquid is a lurid crimson. There's a sherbety Wizz Fizz feel to the sour lolly berry flavours, maintaining an olde lolly shop feel courtesy of a lick of rounding lactose, all without losing its zippy zing.

James Smith

Published December 19, 2024

Name
Venom Brewing
Address

18 High Street
Yea
VIC 3717

Phone
0447 280 555
Tours

N/A

IBD 2025 B Pt 2
FOBOH B2

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