Imperial Boysenberry (Boysen) Bu
de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.61
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A larger version of our Berliner Weisse inspired sour wheat beer, ‘Bu Weisse.’ This version is aged on over 2lbs per gallon of Oregon Boysenberries in first use Red Wine barrels. Rounded fruit in the front, with with crisp acid character followed by richer barrel notes and a balanced structure.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at Dangerous Bottleshare 10th Anniversary. Big thanks to Aaron for bringing this! This beer gushed a shitload when opening it. Pours deep dark red with a big fizzy pink head. Aromas of boysenberries, lactic, yoghurt, light funk, wild strawberries, strawberries, raspberries, fruit jam in general. Taste is jammy as fok, lots of boysenberries, raspberry tartness, lactic sourness, yoghurt, oak, sweet strawberries and raspberries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 17:19
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared at So Good (Rome). Purple cloudy pour, bright dark pink foam with little retention. Nose: sweet feel of red fruit, strawberry jam, vinous a bit, sweet cherries. Charming and unique, really round and sweet. Mouth: a hint of lactose, mild tart in a beer which is characterized by wild red fruit aroma and taste. Many thanks Pierluigi.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2017
at 14:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from 0.75 l bottle at RBBSG 2016 in Evergem. Slightly hazy, red with a white head. Sweetish, sourish-fruity aroma of strawberries, raspberries and some cherries. Quite sour, very fruity taste of raspberries, strawberries and some cherries, followed by a medium long, slightly bitter, quite astringent mouthfeel. Thin to medium body, quite effervescent and very astringent mouthfeel, average carbonation. Okay, way too sour though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2016
at 16:16
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled from bottle @ Ratebeer Belgian Summer Gathering 2016. Murky reddish color, virtually no head. Aroma is a bit sourish with some sweet red fruit hints. Flavor has a lot of red fruit and red fruit sourness. Perhaps some red wine in the as well. The sourness is, as often or perhaps always with De Garde beers, almost too much. This one is no exception.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2016
at 01:43
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Garde Imperial Boysenberry (Boysen) Bu (by De Garde Brewing):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
3/IX/16 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG V (Klaas' place) - BB: n/a (2016-998) Thanks to somebody for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy thick purplish red beer, practically no head. Aroma: very fruity, funky, sourish, lemony, more fruity. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of tannins, very sourish, lots of citric acidity. Aftertaste: more acidity, fruity, some tannins, lemon juice, more tannins and more acidity. Nope.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
3/IX/16 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG V (Klaas' place) - BB: n/a (2016-998) Thanks to somebody for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy thick purplish red beer, practically no head. Aroma: very fruity, funky, sourish, lemony, more fruity. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of tannins, very sourish, lots of citric acidity. Aftertaste: more acidity, fruity, some tannins, lemon juice, more tannins and more acidity. Nope.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2016
at 16:07
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Epic beer Tasting 2016”. MASSIVE GUSHER. Complete fountain, lost about 60 – 70 % of the bottle. Which is real shame because the beer was astonishingly good, brilliant. I should downrate it because of the gusting, I am just going to rate by the taste. This my 17th De Garde beer, first one to do that, I hope that it is a fluke. Deep berry juice red, little head. Nose is extremely fruit, really reminds me of something, not sure what, this smells like freshly picked fruit & childhood memories, faint green tea notes even. Taste is out of this world, fizzy extreme berries, freshly picked wild dark berry forest fruit, childhood memories & brief green tea like notes. High carbonation. Low lemon sourness, acidic. Ridiculous man. Real shame about the gushing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2016
at 08:55
9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Explosive gushing to small pink head over fully opaque dark red beer. Out of this world nose, with an aroma I know only from freshly picked black mulberries. Extremely fruity flavour, fruit³, hardly any beer, - but with this, I’m the last one to complain. Not very well bodied, but totally fruit-filled. Double bad about the gushing - for the marks, but even worse, for the terrible loss of this nectar of the Gods.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2016
at 07:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml from the brewery. Aroma is fermenting berries, oak, lemon, lacto. Pours ruby red/purple with a purple head with decent retention. Taste is mouth-puckering sour (8/10), dry, oaky, berries, lemon, vinegar. Quenching, tasty.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2016
at 01:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy dark red, nice looking pour. This smells awesome. just total boysenberry explosion. taste, not so much. Thin, very sour / acidic. The berry is a redeeming factor but this is just too sour for me. Still, nice to try and decent
Tried
on 20 Jul 2015
at 12:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Many thanks to Don! Fresh sourish beginning. Smooth with a nice round aftertaste. Fresh. fruity. Berry hints of a nice sourish body. Very smooth, nice fresh-sourish and fruity finish. Great!
Tried
on 07 Jun 2015
at 06:16