Blackbeary Wheat
Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
5.26
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
Bottle thanks to mar. Pous with a clear, yellow body and a small white head. Aroma of fake berry syrup, styrofoam and corn. Taste is fruity, with wheat and adjuncts. Watery and fizzy. Nothing even remotely "lambic" about this as the commercial description implies.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pours clear gold into a tumbler. Bright white head with excellent retention leaves spider lacing as it recedes to skim surfaced. Berry, marshmallow and stale malt aromas. Crisp with blackberries and sour malts. Dry lasting berry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sampled on draft at the Rivertowne Pub in North Huntingdon PA this beer poured a medium golden color with a medium sized white head. The aroma was tangy, dry cardboard and a light vague berry note. The flavor as tart and tangy with a noticable dry cardboard element and a light vague berry note. The finish was long tangy cardboard. Blah.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Not really a lambic as specified in the description. Tart yet dull berry initial flavor, lacks zing. Not sweet nor sweettart. Could use some sweetness to bring it around. Much like many typical fruit beers. Looks like ubiquitous pale yellow beer. Cheap lager finish, not bad bud expected more. Perhaps a little too much ale bitterness in there for me.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Fluffy white head and a carbonated pale body that looks more like a lager than a wheat beer. Smells pretty much like the fruits that give it its flavour. The taste is pretty much of blackberry and of really bready wheat beer. I didn’t think this was too bad.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Bottle: Poured a golden color ale with a small thin white head with little retention. Aroma is sweet with blackcurrant being very hard to distinguish. Taste is also very sweet with some malt and some very subtle blackcurrant. Body is way too thin and this beer generally lacks character.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
I do not know why I keep doing this to myself All these wheat infused with syrup beers taste like soda beer. This one wasn’t any better. I know they could do a better job (i.e. Blue Point Blueberry). By the way how exactly is this modeled after lambics. By that logic B ot the E is also modeled after lambics. Damn you Vermont, I have had enough of you and your sucky-ass fruit flavored beers, damn you hippies.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottled on 3/13/06 and drunk on 4/23/06
Unripe apricot skin colored body is crystal clear, finely filtered and full of large, vigorous bubbles creating a foamy white head that is retained probably due to a mix of wheat being used and through so much carbonation, but mostly because of the carbonation, I would guess. It eventually fades to ring, leaving some spots of lace.
Aroma is dull, grainy-mineral-like, with metal (steel, copper, brass), some iron, chalk and a touch of blackberry essence. No substantial malt, not even very wheat-like. Just dull, bland and metallic, with some light corn-like notes.
The flavor is an insipidly sweet, unwavering blackberry sweetness, with some drying on the end, but with such heavily filtered a texture as to remove any substance or anything to comfort the palate. Grainy, dry malts taste of barley, toast, hay and no hops or yeast are noticeable. Blackberry flavor is moderately authentic, but just sticks out like a sore thumb, building up on the palate, with nothing else in the flavor to balance. Obnoxiously high, forced carbonation harries the palate and the beer ends watery and dull. Can’t drink more than a 3 or 4 sips.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
A very thin looking, barely golden colour with a fluffy white head. A bunch of large bubbles rising from the bottom are very noticable as this is lighter than any other pilsner i've had. There are no signs of cloudyness/hazyness to characterise its 'wheatiness', but i'll assume wheat was used in its production. The smell is actually pretty nice, a sweet very ripe blackberry is the single characteristic, but its very pleasant, especially for a summer evening. The taste was pretty watery with a slight blackberry taste, but definately a balanced beer of little to no hops and little to no malt. Really not one to look forward to. This is the second by the brewery that I've had, and I have one currently left in my place...and I will buy no more from this brewery. I've learned my lesson, and this is definately not the brewery to go for.