Goose Island Lolita
Lolita is a pink rose colored Belgian style pale ale fermented with wild yeast and aged on raspberries in wine barrels. Aromas of fresh raspberries, bright jammy fruit flavors and crisp, refreshing body make Lolita ideal for beer drinkers fond of Belgian Framboise.
3.8
669 reviews
Chicago, United States
Community reviews
16/20 mega tart raspberry taste with a bit of sour funk in there as well. huge taste
Nose is full of raspberries and oak stave, with a little funk. Tart with a small ripple of funk.
765ml bottle into Duvel glass. Cloudy red brown with a white head that quickly fizzed away. Sour berry aroma, flavour is sharp raspberry with plenty of funk
2017 bottle from Midtown. Pours a clearish rusty copper color with a half finger of foam that dissipates instantly. Strong raspberry aromas with vinegar and oak notes as it warms. Some brett and alcohol come out as it warms even more. Funky brett, horseblanket and straw flavors with raspberry skin and flesh. Good fruit character throughout nose and palate. Has some slight warming alcohol notes that come out on the finish. Lingering raspberry skin with horseblanket. Enjoyable.
Bottle kindly shared by Pilsnertest. Hazy, dark brown with beige head. Earthy and dusty with raspberries, floral perfume and toffee. Aroma is more fruit forward than the taste, possibly a bit too alcoholic to really even out. Decent nonetheless.
Bottle @ Tidens Farver, 2016 vintage. Pours hazy dark redtinted golden with a small offwhite head. Aroma of malt, light sourness, light tart fruit, raspberry. Flavor is light sweet, rather bitter, not really sour, malty, berries, raspberry. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, dry and light bitter finish. 291218
Bottle shared with G. Pours light reddish/brown with a small off white head. Nose is a bit fusty with raspberries liken it to a kir royale. Taste is sharp and quite perfumy with a bit of a toffee aftertaste. A good one but not quite as good as expected.
Bottle shared with Pix. Pours clear pink with a thin white head. Aroma of champagne and fresh raspberries. The taste is tart raspberry and white wine with champagne effervescence. Like a beery kir royale. Nice
On tap at Tap East. At �15 a pint this had better be good. And it's above your average sour no doubt. Has a decent almost lambic character and flavour. Some banana oddly. Some toffee some sourness some farmyard. Esters. Pretty good. Not worth a fiver for a third though.
2016 bottle (Vintage Cellars - I thought they'd given up on beer again). Brownish red with an off white coat soon at the rim. Aroma of jammy raspberries, apricot stones, almonds, some vinegar. Quite full bodied, lowish carbonation. Really quite sweet with jammy - nice but one dimensionally so - raspberries, marzipan, firm acidity to match, some peppery oak. Tasty but a bit plain and emptily sweet before the nice sour kick.
Bottle at home, 31/07/18.
Rhubarb looking red pour with a decent light crimson cap that soon does Juan.
Nose is super sharp raspberries, damp wood, funk, basement esters, soured berry compote, on the turn jam, hay bale.
Taste comprises tarte raspberries, funk, damp oak, berry pips, acidic bite, raspberry balsams, light spice, damp hay.
Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with semi aggressive acidity and a puckering throat scrape.
Solid stuff ... good acidic bite without going OTT.
Taste: woody oak, tart, raspberry, fermented fruit, sour, wine notes, acidic dry finish. medicine like nose, fermented berries, wine, oak nose. Deep reddish hue, mostly clear, not much head, or lace. Medium to med/full body. Too acidic for me.
Live orange body with active legs. Thin white head. Aroma of barnyard funk, raspberry tart, lemon, vinegar. This is sour but not overly so. Pretty tasty.
Lovely reddish amber pour with a thin, whitish, fizzy head. The aroma is red fruit, foot, and slight wood. Raspberries, banana, and cherry jam with some old furniture, barnyard, loads of funk, and hay. The taste is sour, tampered by an initial sweetness of red-fruit jam, which again gives way to more tartness. Solid fizz throughout to keep it alive. Not a boring moment.
Bottle shared at beer merchants tap. A light hazed amber orange coloured pour with a loose off white head. Aroma is super jammy, apricot jam, cherry, tart cherry, light bakewell. Apple. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, tart cherry, little cherry pips wood, apricot, jammy fruits.. Palate is medium sweet, tart, moderate carbonation, little woody finish.
Bottle from K&L in Redwood City, CA. Aroma is raspberry, musty fruit skins, mild funk. Taste is tart raspberry but evens out with mild funk / oak. Very good example of an American sour.
Pours a hazy reddish orange with small disappearing white head.
Tart raspberry and bread aroma
Strong raspberry cherry tart flavor
Medium light bodied with high co2, acidic prickly sourness and a lingering raspberry syrup flavor.
Tart and refreshing. Raspberry overload but quite delicious.
Hazy dark orange color with light beige head. Aroma is really fruity with raspberry jam and concentrated syrup. Taste is also fruity, not very tart, you can also get the wine barrel notes. Medium body with medium to low carbonation. Quite nice fruit notes, not too acidic, easy drinking.
Clear light red colour with thin head. Aroma is very fruity and tart. Flavour is tart and sweet with red fruits. There's a slight acidic burn to this one.
Butelka. Aromat całkiem przyjemny na początku, trochę w stronę flandersa, później wychodzi trochę ocet. Smak kwaśny, nieco ostry, nuta octu, owoce.
Rami Rami is drinking a Lolita by Goose Island Beer Co. at Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
Aromat o dziwo flandersowy. W uscie mocno kwasne i octowe, agresywne takie. Drewniane. Ciut wiejskoprzyprawowe. Nabokov wylacznie w posmakach
crisp, sour, sweet, smell is dilicious, flowers, fruity, some wood, dry finish, wow, first sour, very tasty reminds me of a good apple cider from normandy
Turbid/opaque orange/pink beer with no/a slight beige head. Medium aroma; taste starts medium sweet and ends slightly dry and sour. Loads of wood and wine flavours, with sone raspberry as well.
Bottle. Hazy reddish orange color, white head. Aroma has sour berries, raspberries, some wine notes. Nice sour taste, berries, earthy notes, wine.
Murky copper pour, good sized white head, no lacing. Fruity aroma, leathery, yeast, sour. Taste is fruit leather (might have to be Canadian to know what that is) malt vinegar, raspberry, yeast. Medium body, slight puckering.
750ml bottle, 2017 vintage. Bright raspberry aroma with notes of vinous red wine, oak and a bit of funk. Pours opaque reddish-amber colored with a thin white head that has no retention or lacing. Starts with bright, jammy raspberry flavors with a bit of oak as well as a lively mouthfeel. Finishes dry but refreshing with some funk, but mostly red wine tannins and character that linger on the palate. Very nice sour.
Bottle from City Beer SF. Copper color, white head. Sour taste with cherry, wheat, tart, grass, red currant and earthy notes. Sour finish with cherry, wheat, tart, earthy notes and red currant. Excellent sour ale.
A balanced tart sour and sweetness type of beer. Nose comes through as sour as well. Yet overall a very enjoyable beer. Body is enjoyable as well. Lots of carbonation as well. A nice frambrosise. Barrel does not come through however.
2013 bottle. Bright pinkish color with minimal carbonation. Aroma reminiscient of wine. Sour flavor with raspberry notes. Medium bodied with lingering sour finish. This is like a sour Framboise.
200th review! Very wild, very sharp, very perplexing! Been saving this for a while and opened it up after hearing that I was a successful candidate in a recent job opportunity, so I figured I’d celebrate. I have a limited knowledge of sours but I have enjoyed what I have tried in the past, however the initial taste on this, for me, is wayyy too sharp. Afterwards, it develops into something that is not too dissimilar to that of a fine wine, and the taste definitely continues to grow and unfold after the initial sip. However, that bite is too sharp, slowing my consumption to a snail pace. Two days later, I still have the bottle open but corked with one of those wine-keeper thingies (haha).