Hawkshead Brewery Chuckleberry Sour

Chuckleberry Sour

 

Hawkshead Brewery in Staveley, Cumbria, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Fruit Beer Regular
Score
6.95
ABV: 3.5% IBU: - Ticks: 22
A chuckleberry is a cross between redcurrant, gooseberry and jostaberry, and is full of the flavours of all three. It makes a unique fruit beer - vibrant pink, effervescent, low alcohol, refreshing. The sweet juice balances the lemon citric-tartness of the base beer, a kettle-soured Berliner Weisse, aged post-fermentation, on whole fresh chuckleberries.
 

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7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at Wakefest. Pours a hazy ruby with medium large pink head that lasts. The aroma is berry, cereal, wheat, dough. Slick body, jammy berry, currant, light tartness, dry finish, very good.

Tried from Draft on 12 Dec 2020 at 08:56


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

6-4-6-3-12 Bottle, five months before bbd. Pours light red, with a big creamy head receding to finger thickness. Aroma is lactic acid with tart fruity notes of berries and stone fruits, as well as plums and musty, minerals. Medium body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is lactic acid, with musty fruit peel and minerals.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2019 at 14:14


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at the Beavertown Extravaganza, day one, 08/09/17. A bright pinky red coloured pour with a fine pink head. Aroma is mixed fruits, apple, plum, cherry, crisp, candied cherry. Flavour is composed of tart, crisp, refreshing , highish carboantion. Good.

Tried from Can on 06 May 2019 at 16:35


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap, at the brewery. Hazed, rose pink. Lasting, fine, powder pink head. Nose has red berry. Yoghurt. Fruity gum. Taste is light tart, and fairly dry. Light body. Fine carbonation. Drying and tart close. Very refreshing, particularly after a day driving around the Lake District.

Tried from Draft on 02 May 2019 at 16:00


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

5/2/2019. Bottle from Grumpy Goat, Reading. Pours pinkish amber red with a bubbly off-white head. Aroma of gooseberry, pink grapefruit, red currant, watermelon and sour lemon. Light sweetness, medium sour. Light body, thin texture, average carbonation. Sour berry finish. Liked this.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Feb 2019 at 21:38


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Manchester Beer Festival 2018. Slightly weak textured but its sourness is full enough with a berry sweetness.

Tried on 29 Jan 2018 at 18:27


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Beavertown Extravaganza 2017. It pours hazy bright red with a small white head. The aroma is soft, bready malt, jammy fruits, berry, sour candy, raspberry and Victoria sponge. The taste is dry, soft, sweet, sugary, sour candy, berry skin, jam, tangerine, peach and a bit of funk with a dry, soft finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Soft and chuggable, but perhaps could be a bit more tart.

Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2017 at 07:32


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Tap@Beavertown Extravaganza 2017, London - ruby amber coloured pour with white pinkish head. Medium sour with lots of berry fruit offered, berry jammy fruity and wheaty, light malt, yeast, tart berry laden fruity finish.

Tried from Draft on 11 Dec 2017 at 03:00


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

From tap. Pours hazy amber. With a small white head. Aroma is dry and mild citric. Fruity and dry. Citric. Slight fruity, sour finish.

Tried from Draft on 10 Sep 2017 at 05:34


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Beavertown Extravaganza 2017. Hazy red pink colour lasting pink head. Berliner sour aroma. Some red fruit in mouth. Mostly a kettle sour. With some red fruit ok ..

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2017 at 14:27