Blackberry FestivAle
Townsite Brewing in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.32
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Deanf (9781) reviewed Blackberry FestivAle from Townsite Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
For some reason they’d blacked out the barcode on this beer at the liquor store but I ain’t complaining. Still trying to keep up with the explosion of craft brewers in B.C., they’re like flies, buzzing around all over the province. You find em here and there, for better or worse, and I hope all of them get their gonads together to bring forth great brews that will keep people coming back. So this pours a beautiful pink with huge head, kind of like a rosé wine with pink foam on top. The aroma is berry and barnyard funk - giving me a hint into a time past, that when I lived in France and frequented Belgium drinking those beers of fine balance. It’s an esoteric mix to get it right, between the fruits and the grains and the yeast, but suddenly there it is, a lifetime of memories coming back with one whiff of this beer. The flavour is an odd mix however - overtly citrusy with a hint of wheat funk to dull them, the utopia I was dreaming of while smelling this fell apart into a rather too common mix of flavours once it was sipped. A little too sweet and cloying, there’s no finesse to the equation. This one was destined for greatness but fell when it counted. but at least my memories came back.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Blackberry FestivAle from Townsite Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Cloudy carmine red color with pinkish head. Aroma and flavor remind me of refined white sugar, the flavor is off-sweet with vague fruit touch, the bitterness almost absent.
Not bad drink, also not a beer.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Blackberry FestivAle from Townsite Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
@Backeddy Pub, Egmont. Purple colour, really pretty. Aroma is fairly malty, the fruit showing more on the palate, especially with juiciness late. Refreshing late summer ale.
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Blackberry FestivAle from Townsite Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
650 ml bottle. Pours a pinkish brown with full head. Aromas of blueberry muffins and wheat. Dusty fruit flavor with earthy wheat - maybe a bit of lavender. Can’t say blackberries are a great addition, but an OK cooler.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Blackberry FestivAle from Townsite Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the Alibi Room, pours an opaque rusted peach colour with a small white head. Aroma brings out loads of bright blackberries, along with some peach. Flavour brings out prominent blackberry notes, followed by peach and other tropical fruits. Very berry-fruit heavy and doesn't seem like a wheat beer primarily. Solid stuff.