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Switzerland · American Wild Ale · 4% ABV
65%
Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Nagami Kumquat Sour if you want bright citrus that tastes like the actual fruit, Razzmatazz Sour if you want deep berry funk with a wilder edge.
Both sit at that perfect 4% sessionability, but they're pulling from opposite ends of the sour spectrum. Nagami feels like a brewday decision—clean, intentional, almost delicate. Razzmatazz feels like it happened in a barrel and they just decided to bottle it.
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Beer DNA
Body
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Sweetness
Δ 6
Bitterness
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In words
Nagami Kumquat Sour
There's a real kumquat here—not the extract-heavy kind, but that specific bitter-sweet thing when you eat the peel. It cracks open on your palate with a gentle tartness that doesn't linger aggressively. The 15 IBUs are basically invisible; this is fruit-forward sour, not hop-driven. Finishes almost dry, like biting into the rind and then it just dissolves.
Razzmatazz Sour
This one smells like a farmers market in late summer—berries that have already started to ferment on their own. The sourness has real teeth but it's wrapped in this musty, funky undertone that suggests some wild yeast action. It's less about the berry as a flavor and more about the berry as a vehicle for something older and stranger. Leaves your mouth feeling alive.
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Similarly hopped
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably more bitter on this axis.
Bitterness 19 vs 19 · Δ 0
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Texture
Δ 3
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Shared character
Only Razzmatazz Sour