Last Updated: 12 May 2025
Beer Focus: Dig Brew Co – California Fruit Smoothie Sour
What’s up everyone, today we’re featuring Dig Brew Co from Birmingham.
Dig Brew Co is one of my favourite breweries at the moment, you simply cannot miss their beers with the standout artwork and packaging! You can see their influences from thrash, metal album artwork in the typeface of their logo and can, bottle design which is a style I love, particularly on their stubby bottles with the wax tops, we don’t usually rave about the artwork on beer.
But with Dig Brew Co it is different, it’s perhaps something you would want to keep around rather than throwing out. If they produced prints of their label artwork I would for sure be first in line to pick one or two up. Located in the backstreets of Digbeth, Birmingham, Dig Brew Co offers a sweet combination of beer and handmade pizza right out of their brewery.
Like many breweries up and down the U.K, Dig Brew Co has had to make some changes to the way they operate, with local delivery, collection from the brewery, and the unfortunate temporary closure of eat-in dining, but that does not mean they have halted on beer production.
Dig Brew Co has been releasing a wide range of beers from DIPA’s, sours, pales which has made me excited. I picked up some Dig Brew Co beers from The Fuss Club (post on these guys coming soon!) and one of the beers is this delight, their “California Fruit Smoothie Sour” brewed with Raspberry, Cranberry, Blackberry, and milk sugar (please note this isn’t suitable for Vegans due to containing lactose).
I picked this up from The Fuss Club for £4.61 (330ml) and coming in at a lovely 5.2% ABV which is what I love about Dig Brew Co, they don’t go half on the ABV on any of their beers. Popping the red wax top on this, you instantly get hit with the aroma of dank berries, vanilla, and the signature zing most sours tend to have on your nose.
Pouring into a tumbler the aroma of this sour just becomes much more alive and inviting. Letting this sit in the glass there is some slight carbonation and a one-finger thin head and sticky lacing from the sugars. In-person this sour had a very, very deep, dark red hue with next to no light being able to come through.
This sour was sour, no really. With some sours, they tend to be very lax and in most cases watered down slightly and you’re almost able to just throw it down and crack another one and go again. But with this, it was something else.
I love sours, and I love this! The flavours from the raspberries and blackberries were the first thing that I noticed along with a sweetness towards the end. I found the mouthfeel to be sticky, tart, and thick with the flavour to linger around on the backend.
This sour would be perfectly suited with a dessert dish such as an Apple Crumble or a Rhubarb Crumble to add some extra depth of flavour to the dessert, or even just enjoy this beer on its own if you prefer.
Overall this was a solid sour and a style that I will be on the lookout for in the future when Dig Brew Co release some more.
An easy 10/10 from me, let me know what you thought in the comments or even what sour beers or other beers you’ve tried recently.
See you all in the next post! Or check out my previous beer posts here.
