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Switzerland · American Wild Ale · 4% ABV
65%
Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Nagami Kumquat Sour if you want bright citrus with subtle skin bitterness, Razzmatazz Sour if you want berry punch that overwhelms everything else.
Both sit at the same 4% ABV and 15 IBU, so the difference is purely in how the breweries deployed their fruit. Nagami feels like drinking the actual fruit—complexity included. Razzmatazz is more dessert.
At a glance
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Beer DNA
Body
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Sweetness
Δ 6
Bitterness
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In words
Nagami Kumquat Sour
Nagami hits you with kumquat's specific character: tart flesh, that slightly chalky pith finish, a whisper of marmalade. There's actual acidity here, not just sweetness masking it. The wild ale backbone stays dry enough that you taste the fruit's angles, not a smoothie. It's restrained in a way that makes you want another sip immediately.
Razzmatazz Sour
Razzmatazz leads with a wall of raspberry and berry jam. It's sweet without apology—the kind of sour that tastes like dessert pretending to be beer. The tartness is there but muted under the fruit's candy-like presence. If you came for a sour that drinks like a fruit beer, this delivers it cleanly. No complexity, pure fruit forward.
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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