Venatrix
Driftwood Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
4.39
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fiulijn (28382) reviewed Venatrix from Driftwood Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Courtesy of Josh
Dark amber color. There is some cherry jam in the aroma, the rest is an unsellable landslide of chemicals, Band Aid. Dry mouthfeel, paint thinner, Band Aid, chemical cocktail; if it means anything, I expected more acidity.
Unbelievably bad. Undrinkable.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Venatrix from Driftwood Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 0.5
Bottle - Band aide is being generous and the horrific fruity not s are just so bad. Deep reddish purple with a small beige head. Tastes as it smells. This is almost the most offensive beer I have had.
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Venatrix from Driftwood Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a ruby red with no head. Aromas of fruity red berry jam and wood. Flavors of iodine and crushed acidic/bitter berry seeds. Whoa. I’ll be positive - maybe needs to sit awhile. Sorry...
pictoman (9684) reviewed Venatrix from Driftwood Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Poured from the tap. Brownish red with minimal off white head. Initial hit of raspberry, but then things take a turn for the worse with plasticy pleather notes. Gives Parallel 49’s Lil Red a run for it’s money for biggest BC fail that went to market.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Venatrix from Driftwood Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Browny-amber, and pretty cloudy. No head. On the nose, a nice deep raspberry, maybe with a touch of woodiness. On the palate, a shitshow of "ethical people don’t sell this, they dump it." Fuck off. I’m tired of this shit, Driftwood putting total fucking garbage on the market at a premium price. Let’s go. The raspberry is nice, a balanced fruit that overlays the base beer. But it’s that base beer that’s the issue here. On the palate, it’s some sort of phenol clusterfuck of burnt band-aids, and honestly does it actually matter after that? Dump the batch. It’s thin, utterly infected, totally gone off in all the wrong ways. Five years ago, this was the best brewery in BC. Now it’s a fucking joke.
Pro-tip: Fire a shot of DaVinci Pumpkin Spice into this and it’s marginally better.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Venatrix from Driftwood Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
650mL bottle, pours a hazy pinkish red with a tiny beige head. Aroma brings out tart raspberries, some perfume, and bizarre fungal notes. Flavour is clearly messed up, with notes of bandaids, plastic and iodine, followed by tart raspberries. Finishes with burnt plastic and bandaids. A disastrous beer.