New Glarus Brewing Company Strawberry Rhubarb

Strawberry Rhubarb

 

New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸

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Score
7.77
ABV: 4.0% IBU: - Ticks: 84
Teased from the loam by the kiss of the Sun. Mom's Strawberry Rhubarb delights are the happy memories of childhood. Diploma Master Brewer Dan employed juicy sweet Strawberries to take the barbaric wild tart fermentation of rhubarb. Escaped from the far corners of neighboring yards, local rhubarb was incorporated into the wild sour fermentation to create this drinkable dream. Bright sour and effervescent. Toast chilled cold to Bright skies, fireflies, bare feet and rhubarb pies!
 

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8.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Aromas are mainly strawberry with a hint of rhubarb and a little bit of tartness. Appearance had a nice thick creamy off-white had that slowly subsided to a ring in an island likewise the color of the liquid was more pink at first before changing to a pinkish Brown. Flavors are like Nose again dominated by a natural strawberry that is sweet tart with a hint of Funk, don't really pick up much rhubarb although I wish I did. Excellent body and finish great drinking beer. Masterfully done.
Tried on 30 May 2018 at 02:17

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
From a Growler from Ken out of Denver.
Cloudy brown pour, no long lasting foam.
Smells malty with oodles of strawberry that isn’t implying a whole lot of tartness.
Tastes match the taste. Only a hint from the Rhubarb but the caramel, which resembles mild oxidation, and the strawberry carries the weight nicely. Thanks again Ken!
Tried from Growler on 21 Aug 2017 at 15:39

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 9/8/2017. Pours very hazy deep ruby/pink/brown color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of huge strawberry jam, rhubarb, red grape, wheat, cracker, brown sugar, brown bread, and light herbal. Incredible aromas with awesome balance of strawberry, rhubarb, and bready malt notes; with big strength. Taste of huge strawberry jam, rhubarb, red grape, wheat, cracker, brown sugar, brown bread, and light herbal. Light herbal bitterness and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of strawberry jam, rhubarb, red grape, wheat, cracker, brown sugar, and brown bread on the finish for a while. Incredible robustness and balance of strawberry, rhubarb, and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/tang/tartness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slightly drying from fruit tang/tartness. Medium-high carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly acidic/tannic/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4%. Overall this is an amazing fruit beer! All around incredible robustness and balance of strawberry, rhubarb, and bready malt flavors; very smooth and refreshing to drink with the balanced tart/tangy fruit finish. Unbelievable levels of fruit presence, with nice malt balance to keep it drinkable. Tastes like a jar of Smucker’s jam as a beer. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Aug 2017 at 17:23

8.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by Rick, thank you. Pours a ruby red with a little ring of head. Aroma is intense with strawberry jam sweetness and lightly tart. Smells just about as fresh as fresh jam can be. Full on strawberry jam taste and bits of rhubarb tart. The fruit notes are just amazing. Another wonderful fruit beer from New Glarus.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2017 at 10:58

9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 9
Bottle from Rick. Murky dark pink pour, small ring of head. Aroma is fresh baked pie. Taste too, big jelly jar flavor. Just awesome throughout. Tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2017 at 22:21

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
Thanks Virby44 for sharing the bottle! Poured into a wineglass showing cloudy lightly filtered strawberry with very sparse foam white lacing and translucent rims. The nose shows jammy rich strawberries. The palate is light bodied and well carbonated. Moderately sweet with jammy flavors of strawberry from start to finish lightly supported by rhubarb. NG does make the best fruit beers.
Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2017 at 21:38

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Aroma is fruity with a rhubarb and strawberry character. Moderately strong syrupy, honey notes with a touch of a wet cardboard character. More rhubarb than strawberry with a faint phenolic note. Pours a murky, light brown color with a bit of a tan hue and a medium sized, fairly thick, tan head that slowly recedes to thin film that lingers on the edges. Light lacing and no legs. Flavor is very sweet with some moderate honey, caramel and syrup notes. Moderate rhubarb notes with some lighter strawberry character. Some light phenolic notes. A touch of wet cardboard notes. Low bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, the age hasn’t helped this beer, but I am not sure it was very good in the first place. The beer is very sweet with some moderate fruit notes. Moderate oxidation and sweet malt notes.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Oct 2016 at 00:38

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 8
At Hopishop’s B.U.M.B. 2016, shared by 77ships, cheers! Lightly lacing, egg-white, moussy head, lightly hazy orangey blonde robe with warm amberish hue. Aroma breathes a ton of ripe, sweet strawberries, home made strawberry jam, rhubarb stewed with lots of white sugar to soften the tartness like my grandmother used to do, more subtle notes of marmelade, apple cake, vanilla, banana and white bread lurking underneath. Very emphatic sweet strawberry flavor and though sugary, still feeling ’natural’, not cloying as in an industrial sweet fruit beer; the sourish rhubarb flavor sits underneath but it’s hard to spot and could have been more outspoken if only to provide balance against the sweetness. Medium carbo (could have been a bit fizzier for such a sweet dessert beer, to my taste at least), some soapy ’wheatiness’ and soft, fluffy breadiness provide an underlying structure that carries the artisanal strawberry jam sweetness onwards. Slight earthiness in the very end, with the sweetness sticking a little bit to the throat. Like many of these New Glarus fruit beers apparently, this is very sweet, but in an elegant, refined kind of way - comparing this and the others with cheap industrial sweet fruit beers would be a lot like comparing grandmother’s sweet strawberry cake with sticky, plasticy, industrial strawberry-flavored candy. It know which of those two I would prefer.
Tried from Can on 11 Oct 2016 at 14:05

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
At Hopishop 2016. Aroma of strawberry jam and candy. Flavor has sweet syrupy strawberry and candy jam. These New Glarus beers are a bit of a letdown.
Tried from Can on 11 Oct 2016 at 06:06

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
750 ml. bottle sampled @ HopisHop B.U.M.B. 2016. Hazy amber with an off-white head. Nose is hilariously heavy on sweet strawberry jam, quite awesome, stupid sweet as usual for a New Glarus fruit beer, pure strawberry jam really. Taste is bit empty especially compared to the smell, bit metallic upfront, sparkling water, strawberry jam, some faint lemon way in the back, bit empty tasting. Body is lightly metallic strawberry jam diluted with sparkling water. If only it tasted like it smelled. I have no idea where the Rhubarb is.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2016 at 16:30