Blackberry Soak
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.51
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Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Pours clear magenta, small pink head, decent lacing. Aroma is berries, lactic yogurt, oak, bugs. Flavor is light tart, light plus funk, berries and yogurt. Medium body. Nice!
Mansquito (18977) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottleshare: pours dark red with a loose head. Aroma is blackberry, some funkiness. Taste is thick fruitiness. Light sourness. Mellow sweetness. Really good.
djd07 (28898) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
On tap at Canton location. Pours a dark ruby with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is strong blackberry, oak, cherry. Thin body, berry, cherry, light acidity, very tart, enjoyed this.
mcberko (47051) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Trillium, pours a hazy dark pinkish purple with a small pink head. Aroma brings out lots of pithy blackberries upfront, with a fair amount of acidity and oak. Flavour has lots of oak, with lots of tart pithy blackberries, and acidic notes. Pithy and acidic, with a tannic, oaky finish. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours hazy maroon into a tulip. Pink head with good retention recedes leaving no lacing. Blackberry seed aromas. Tart with sour blackberry, citrus and aspirin upfront turning to an abrupt marshmallow finish.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle drunk 2/20/16.
Vibrant, violet-maroon body shows good clarity and a pinkish-beige-tinted, off-white head atop with moderate to strong retention to-style.
Very poignant, acidic, tannic, pepper and citrus-laden blackberry notes in the nose are joined by a strong wood character, moderate acetic acid and strong lactic acid as well. There’s a good wheat base to this, with even some light malt sweetness to balance, but it’s still powerfully acidic from the nose. Vanilla, toasted character and strong wood from the barrel-aging, which oddly comes out more here than most of the other versions. Very intense, rather sharp, though no actual alcohol notes and no flaws.
All of this translates in to an intensely sour character in the flavor. Soft wheat and light honey-caramel sugars from the malts attempt to balance, but the lactic and acetic acids overpower pretty quickly and it ends puckeringly sour. The blackberry is rich, poignant and intense, though well-attenuated, as is the malt. Whew. It’s good, but it’s just way, way, way too aggressive and young. 7/5/7/3/14
Batch 1 (only batch thus far), drunk 3/19/17.
With over a year of age on it, the beer has developed and mellowed out very nicely. Surprisingly still very malty, with the sweetness able to balance the puckering acidity (which is much more easygoing than the enamel stripping strength of it when it was young). Very soft, chewy texture full of wheat with still a very vibrant, now succulent fruit character. Upping the score a bit and glad to see the Soaks do indeed age nicely.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Copenhagen Beer Festival in Boston (9-24-2016) showing cloudy raspberry with white foam lacing around the edges. The nose shows tart notes of blueberry and dark plums. The palate is moderately carbonated and light bodied. Dark fruit/red wine forward flavors of blackberries, plums, and light blueberries like a fine Cabernet Sauvignon. Highly tart with a big bready maltiness on the linger.
nimbleprop (16618) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750ml bottle pours a neon blue with some pinky head. Nose is solid, the fruit is there in the rawest form but there is plenty of grass/straw, mild grist, some neutral oak, mild funk. Flavor follows right along, the berry in question is obviously black or blue, there’s a medium level of tartness, some grape too, reminds a bit of Lambrusco, neutral oak/sawdust too, just a little biscuit. Finishes with a level of carbonation that is bordering on distracting, but otherwise dry and light tart. Successful.
77ships (14509) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Much thanks to Kermis! 750 ml. bottle sampled. Trillium’s first sour beer, interesting. Overall this is good, lots of fruit & basically tastes like a sour richly fruity sorbet, lemon sourness but it does lack complexity & funk. It would have been better if it had some of those things. Good but I expected complexity a bit too much initially but it really grew on me. Pours very hazy red fruit. Nose is straightforward vinegar, puckering with lots of blackberry, lots of fruit, red fruits, pits. Taste is sour blackberry sorbet, lemon, sour sorbet, red fruits, tannins, sour lemon sorbet, straightforward, no funk. Sour lemon sorbet body.
Deanso (15577) reviewed Blackberry Soak from Trillium Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared with kermis kraddel and 77ships. Thin ring pink head. Cloudy pink red pour. Very tart.