What the Huck Berry Ale
Fernie Brewing Company in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Fruit Beer Regular|
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5.71
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This award-winning beer has a touch of huckleberries, which are added post-fermentation to ensure the deep colour and slight sweetness of the berries remain.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Light purple/pinkish pour, with a small off white head.
A distinct malted wheat aroma, with touches of diacetyl, and some random berry juice, and light stone fruit. Low carb, muddy mouth feel. Low bitterness in the finish, muddled flavours, sweet berry juice, buttery malts. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
There's nothing particularly wrong with this beer, it's just so bland and lacking any sort of flavour. Nothing comes through with any amount of strength.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Garrick's Head, pours a hazy golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out a sort of stale, tart berry-like character and some musty notes. Flavour is very light and clean, with extremely restrained berry notes and biscuity notes. Lacking character but nothing off about it. Boring.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft - Grains and light Berry. Clear gold with a nice white head. Light grain, honey and a touch of non descript Berry.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a hazy amber colour with a small creamy white head. Light berry aroma. Light berry flavour with some malt and just a hint of wheat. Light body, watery texture and flat to soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle shared by Alan at his house. Pours clear orange gold with white head. Nose and taste of syrup, wheat malt, soapy malt, berry fruit and unfermented sugars. Lighter medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Pours a gold with just a reddish tint, and a modest head on top that’s pure white. The aroma is mashed nondescript fruits with a hint of malt, that somehow comes across as smelling like cheeseburgers... or maybe that’s just my stomach growling. There is a faint syrupy hint on the nose as well, fruit-juice like, possibly huckleberry-ish but in no way enticing; possibly less so. Flavour is of detergent wheat-beer with a fruity finish. Not much balance here, more of a sequential experience; less of a harmony rather than a drive-thru of flavours. I’m finding this drinkable, but also finding it hard to get excited about.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Cloudy light amber color with some copper hue; creamy head. Simple aroma, some yeast. Smooth mouthfeel; some malt flavor, bread, yeast, and then very light fruity touch.
I’m happy that the fruit is not so evident, still it’s a simple beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Amber, hazy and the light shines through it with some berry colour. The aroma is lightly fruity. Fruity, jammy palate is quite bland, with a little bit too much yeast and doughy malts to really be refreshing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Re-rate from bottle. Hazy pink, white lace. Berry bubblegum nose. Lightbodied. Berries, light cardboard. Medium light body, mellow mouthfeel. The berry notes are nice, but it lacks substance. 4 3 5 2 9 Bottle. Light berry and whitebread aroma, fusel. Murky milky plum color Light body. Inoffensive but not great by any means.