Almanac Beer Company Farmer's Reserve Raspberry

Farmer's Reserve Raspberry

 

Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸

Brewed at/by: Hermitage Brewing Company
  Sour / Wild Beer Regular
Score
7.82
ABV: 7.0% IBU: - Ticks: 30
Raspberries and sour beer is a magical pairing that creates something more than the sum of its parts: a perfect summer day in a glass. Our version of a Framboise draws inspiration from the farmland in the Santa Cruz mountains, where windswept hills have warm days and cool nights that result in tight, red berries with complex flavors and a ruby red-color. Combined with our sour blonde ale, the final blend highlights huge fruit flavor and the bounty of Coastal California. Pair with pancakes, seared duck breast and summer fruit tarts.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

03.10.2024, 0,375l bottle (2016 vintage) @ hotel room in Florø:
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head, hazy dark orangy color. Aroma is fresh fruity, sour raspberries, oak, hay, berry skin, mild vinegar, old rope, minerals, grain, raspberry syrup. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, raspberry candy, oak, mild vinegar, hay, minerals, grass, sour raspberries, flowers, grain. Medium bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish fruity mouthfeel. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2024 at 14:38


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Raspberry, lactic and citric acid, malt, and hay aroma.. Cloudy golden yellow with minimal head. Mildly sweet raspberry and malt, moderately sour citric and lactic acid, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body.

Tried on 12 May 2019 at 20:31


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Refrigerated 375 ml brown bottle from FlandersNed poured into a glass. Clear orange with small white head. Aroma is raspberry, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is sour, wood, some raspberry, and a little red wine. Let this warm up a bit.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2018 at 01:11


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours hazy blood orange into a tulip. No head. Lacto funk aromas. Sharp with sweet and tart raspberry upfront turning to dry lacto funk in the medium length finish.

Tried on 04 Mar 2018 at 22:58


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

0,375l bottle shared by Saeglopur, big thanks. Orange cloudy color, small white head. smells raspberries, musty, citric, grassy, nutty, marzipan, light wood. very nice smell. full body, medium carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes raspberries, citric, grassy, earthy, some wood, light vinegar. finishes dry and medium sour with notes of grass, citrus and earthy notes. very nice one, great to drink, a bit on the sour side though 9, 4, 7, 4, 16

Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2017 at 04:14


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Score: 8/ 4 / 8 / 4 / 16

375 ml bottle from Beergium, bottled 08/08/16.
Orange-pinkish body, with a small, light pink head.
Aroma of fresh, sweet-sour raspberries mainly, medium wood, some vinegar.
Tastes of sour raspberries, wine barrel, vinegar, subtle vanilla
Medium to light, slick mouthfeel, with a lively carbonation.
Finishes acidic, wooden, fruity, with lots of raspberries again, vinegar.

Tasty. Lots of raspberries, but also quite a lot of wine barrel, especially in the taste. Pretty complex more on the acidic side, while also with subtle sweet notes. One of my favourite Almanacs I've had, really lovely stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2017 at 14:30


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

At a tasting, thanks, almost no head, cloudy pale red to orange color, aroma of raspberry and horse sweat, ripe raspberry flavor with feral notes, intense piercing red fruit sourness. really good and highly enjoyable, .

Tried on 22 Aug 2017 at 01:05


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle sample at a tasting at Tom L’s place. Thanks Vova, Stas & Max. Cloudy orange. Big raspberry, funk, oak, vinegar, lemon, sour, acidic, medium-bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2017 at 09:30


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at WTF V. Pours a hazy orange with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is strong berry and light funk. Medium body, tart berry, light acidity, very good.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2017 at 11:46


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

12.7 oz. bottle. Pours a pinkish hazy pale gold with a fizzy white head. Heavily carbonated. Aroma of tart raspberries and oak. Taste follows nose with some sweetness and acidity and funkiness. Very good. Wish this was available in Texas.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jul 2017 at 00:44