R&D: Wild Blackberry
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Fruit Series Out of Production|
Score
8.43
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Fourth in our series of spontaneous sour ales. Fermented and aged in oak barrels - on yeast lies - with Oregon Blackberries. Refermented in this bottle - open with care. This is a Wild, Funky Sour Beer!
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8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
From Greg, thanks. Hazy oirple color. Thick and heavy bright berry atoma and lots of berry flavor woth moderate tartness. The flavor and palate are full. Excellent.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2016
at 19:08
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at tasting. I need the label for this. If you have an empty for trade, please let me know. Pours purple pink head. Nose/taste of blackberry with seeds, light tartness. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2014
at 14:51
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle. Pronounced fruit tones. Blackberry, raspberry. Nice balance between the sour and big fruit tones. Quite unique and interesting. Has the pleasant universally enjoyable fruit, and the sourness of a traditional lambic. Solid beer, deep rich blackberry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2014
at 20:54
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle shared. Pours murky purple with a tiny ring head. Aroma is huge blackberry upfront with light funky notes, basement, cobwebs etc.. Flavour is light sweet and over moderate acidic. Hugely fruity in the palate with the tart blackberries coming out super fresh and strong but also with red fruit notes like raspberry and red currents. Full bodied with moderate carbonation. Certainly get the hype on this one. The best American sour I’ve ever had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2014
at 12:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
50cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis, Big thanks. No head. Murky purple pour. Lots of blackberry. Tart sourness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2014
at 11:54
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle 500 ml at Fruits of the Foeder, 2014-05-17.Bottled Aug 2013.Hazy reddish brown color, small off-white to pink head. Acidic, raspberry scent. Sour, tart, berries taste. Acidic aftertaste. Fizzy mouthfeel, very low bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2014
at 03:49
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Bottle received in trade. Thank you AdamJackson! Pours hazy vibrant reddish blue with a rather big frothy blueish pinkish white head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is slightly sour and very fruity with wheat crackers, heavy blackberries, heavy raspberries, barnyard, hay, dry soil, cobwebs, damp basement and horse blanket. Taste is sour, fruity and funky with wheat crackers, heavy blackberries, heavy raspberries, wild strawberries, barnyard, hay, dry soil, lemon juice, unflavored yoghurt, leather, horse blanket and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is very dry, tart and light to medium bodied. Finish is sour and fruity with wheat crackers, lemon juice, heavy blackberries, heavy raspberries, unripe wild strawberries, hay, lemon juice, cobwebs, barnyard, leather and hints of horse blanket. Rich, complex and fruity. On pair with the best fruity lambics out there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2014
at 07:29
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
The pour is gorgeous. Looks like blackberry purree. nice and hazy, no head though. the nose is remarkable. Like this is one of the best smelling beers I’ve ever encountered. Jeez, like this is mind blowing. Does the taste compare? This is making my mouth water. It’s puckering in a huge fruity way. it is truly a blackberry juicy like mind blowing and over the top awesome. Sour but no vinegar. A perfect fruit sour. It taste like sprees candy
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2014
at 09:58
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ Exira Beer Summit IV, Day 2. Thanks to TheAlum for sending! Huge thanks! Pours a murky bright maroon purple appearance with a pink head. Quite tart blackberry pie, vanilla, raspberry, fairly funky, juicy fruit gummy aroma. Really bright nose. Thick jammy sour blackberry, fleshy berry, a bit woody/oaky, slight cheesy/funky flavor. Really bright and sour berries. Quite tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2013
at 18:59
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Yeah baby - thanks to cbfobes for this one! Pours totally cloudy reddish purple with a small pink head that dissipates slowly with good lacing. Aroma is, well, blackberry. Pure and simple. Perhaps a touch of oak in there somewhere, but really just blackberry. Given the aroma, flavor is surprisingly tart, puckering the tongue instantly. There is a bit of initial balancing sweetness as well, but it backs off quickly and dries out big time. Flavors are really blackberry fruit dominated, with some oak, lemon and just a tiny bit of funkiness. Medium body. This is a beer that highlights what New Glarus does best - fruit that tastes like fruit. However, in the end, it really beats hard on just two notes - blackberry and tart, and thus lacks the complexity of the best in class. Still, an interesting and quality beer.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2013
at 08:52