Imperial Blackberry Bu
de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.66
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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 Blackberries in first use Red Wine barrels. Rich fruit character with a balancing acidity and lingering fruit and earth notes.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 9
a: dark purple coloued body | beautiful lavender head that stays afloat for a long time
a: tart | blackberries (duh!) | spontaneous fermentation
f: great effervescence | rich pitted fruits | thin body
t: complex floral notes | dry & fruity | great berry notes
o: elegant | true-to-name/style | a great beer to sample if you can find it...i did for cheap (in the middle of new york, too)!
75 cL capped and corked bottle | The Food Emporium (grocery): New York (49th & 8th Ave), New York | 06-December-2025 | US$9,99 | bottled: june 2024 | sampled: a few minutes after purchase on 06-December-2025 walking the streets of New York with my family of five at Christmas!
a: tart | blackberries (duh!) | spontaneous fermentation
f: great effervescence | rich pitted fruits | thin body
t: complex floral notes | dry & fruity | great berry notes
o: elegant | true-to-name/style | a great beer to sample if you can find it...i did for cheap (in the middle of new york, too)!
75 cL capped and corked bottle | The Food Emporium (grocery): New York (49th & 8th Ave), New York | 06-December-2025 | US$9,99 | bottled: june 2024 | sampled: a few minutes after purchase on 06-December-2025 walking the streets of New York with my family of five at Christmas!
Tried
from Bottle
from
Food Emporium @ THE MARKETPLACE
on 06 Dec 2025
at 16:18
9.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 10
750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Epic beer Tasting 2016”. Deep bright blackberry juice red, head is very fried. Nose is massive lactic berry, sour fizzy, blackberry is massive, insane, going to pomegranate. Taste is massive fizzy fruit, extreme blackberry, lactic, crazily big fruit, very lively, light grape skins, dry red wine, & pomegranate. Crazy stuff, these dark berry De Garde Bu beers are something special all right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2016
at 08:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Huge fluffy pink head over garnet-cyclamen beer. Sour fruity nose, with red fruit and a bit of lactic acid. Sour fruit returning in the mouth, without excess acidity - very good impression. But the aftertaste yields puckering sourishness and a lot of acidthinning in the mouthfeel. Just a tad too acidic but still very nice.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2016
at 07:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours ruby red with some purple-white foam. Aroma is berries, light wood. Taste is sour (7/10) and acidic with lots of berry flavor; some wood and vanilla; has a nice tannic dryness. Fine soft cacarbonation. Great stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2016
at 18:56
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Reddish Pink. 3 finger head appears and fades slowly to 1 finger.hazy due to many pours but was probably beautiful before. …it smells like blackberries with tart. like a cobbler. That’s very sour! Like a blackberry juice with a sour juice of some wort. more mouthfeel than the base BUs but unique. probably wouldn’t seek out
Tried
on 20 Jul 2015
at 12:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at the RBSG grand tasting in Portland
Hazy dark pink with a medium sized pink head, some lacing. Aroma of sweet berries. Taste is tart, acidic and berries
Nice
Hazy dark pink with a medium sized pink head, some lacing. Aroma of sweet berries. Taste is tart, acidic and berries
Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2015
at 13:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 oz. bottle, pours an opaque pinkish orange amber with a small pink head. Aroma brings out loads of pithy blackberries, with medium tartness and light funk. Flavour is along the same lines, with super fruity, pithy blackberries, medium tartness and light oak. Not the most complex of the Bus, but very well-incorporated. Solid simple Berliner.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2015
at 11:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - Deep flavoured sweet blackberry and jammy. Dirty purple with a small beige head. Blackberry tart and true to the fruit. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 22:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pours out a pinkish maroon topped with a pink head. Nose is raspberries strawberries oak sweetness. Taste is more of the raspberry jam sweetness some tartness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 22:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a clear pink purple color with a large white head. A big sweet berry nose. The flavor is big rich berry, smooth, light oak. Very light. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 22:03