Cascade Brewing Shrieking Violet

Shrieking Violet

 

Cascade Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production
Score
7.41
ABV: 11.0% IBU: - Ticks: 52
This NW-style sour ale is no wallflower. It started as a strong spiced quad that was barrel aged for 21 months, then aged for another 6 months on blueberries. Huge herbal notes of dense blueberries in the nose give way to hints of oak and leather. Rich, earthy notes of dark fruit on the palate yield to a rich, velvety finish that dries out to a base note of blueberry skins. This is a single barrel project.
 

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8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

From tap at Oedipus International Beer Festival 2016. Aroma is huge tart red fruits, sour blueberries, strong oak, malt, touch of vinegar, vinous notes. Flavour is good puckering sourness. Body is medium. Very complex and tasty, big sour fruits and oak. Lovely beer.

Tried from Draft on 11 Feb 2025 at 15:38


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap @ Borefts. Dark brown color. Balsamic aroma, vinous. Sour flavor with blueberries and balsamic vinegar. Very good!

Tried from Draft on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:05


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

Keg at IMBC 2018, session 1. Pours pours clear purple-amber with a small, foamy white head. Fairly sweet, big jammy berries, some honey, moderate acidity, some aged wood, alcohol, apple. Medium to full bodiednwith fine carbonation. Lightly warming finish, some sturdy acidity, more berry tartness. Solid.

Tried on 04 Oct 2018 at 18:37


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Keg at indy man beer con. Session 1. A clear plum black blue coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is spicy lacto, blackberry, blackcurrant, sour, woody fruit pips. Flavour is composed of semi swert sour, blackberry, blackcurrant, woody pips, lacto, sour, smoked cherry,. Palate is spicy sour, tangy, spicy sour.. Lingering smoked cherry.

Tried on 04 Oct 2018 at 18:34


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

Keg at IMBC. It pours clear deep purple with a small white head. The aroma is zingy, bright, parma violets, plum, blueberry, date blackcurrant and fruit cordial. The taste is crisp, dry, tart, zingy, fruit cordial, blueberry jam, parma violets, jammy, kick of acidity, tannin, wood and jammy finish. Medium body and fine, prickly. Works very well.

Tried on 04 Oct 2018 at 18:32


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

2016 Edition, 10.8%. Draught at the brewery. Cloudy, purplish, not much head. Lots of barrel, blueberry, esters, nice malts. Tart, mellow berries, good barrel. Acetic, bracing finish. I like it.

Tried on 26 Aug 2017 at 20:28


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Tap at the Cascade Barrelhouse. Pours lightly purple red with bubbles. Lightly sour aroma - blueberries are in it. Med body. Slightly sour blueberry, maybe with plums, with mouth puckering bourbon/oak. Getting some red berry. Neat stuff.

Tried from Draft on 25 Jul 2017 at 16:23


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from the tap. Brownitsh red with pinkish white head. Berries with red wine and light tart finish.

Tried from Draft on 22 Jul 2017 at 23:08


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

Draught @ 8th. BBF 2016 [ 8th Borefts Beer Festival 2016 ] @ Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands. [ As Cascade Shrieking Violet Blueberry ].Unclear medium brown red colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, tart, sour, berries, medicine, blueberries. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, sour, berry, blueberries, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20160923] 6-3-8-3-15

Tried on 11 Jun 2017 at 04:56


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draft at the Barrel House. Purple hue, with pinkish foamy head. Nice jelly jar aroma, sweet and fresh. Taste goes a bit deeper into the berries, still sweet and very juicy. Again the tartness puckers, and then dries out your gums. Nice sweet jelly flavors linger, along with the dryness. These guys know their way around a sour, for sure.

Tried from Draft on 24 Feb 2017 at 17:41