Bramble, Thorn & Briar - 2023
Crossover Blendery in Weston, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.31
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A blend of 1, 2 and 3 year old golden ales brewed with malted barley and raw wheat. Spontaneously fermented and aged in neutral French oak barrels. Refermented on organic Driscoll Maravilla raspberries and organic Driscoll Victoria blackberries grown in Herefordshire.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Keg at Cask Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico. A murky hazy plum colour. Thin foamy off-white head. Aroma has blackberries and raspberries providing both sourness and some sweetness. Vinous hints. Jammy. Sour. Quite tart but with a juice element (like the homemade juice my grandmother in Finland used to make from my Grandfather's berry crop). Gets vinous. Some bitterness. Lacks the sweetness present in the aroma. Thin. Slick. Soft-fizzy lazy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. Spot on.
Tried
from Draft
at
CASK Pub & Kitchen
on 27 Feb 2026
at 15:57
Tried at home
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2026
at 00:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Panda at home, thanks to Graham Grumbo, 11/11/2025.
Hazed reddish amber topped with a dirty crimson cap that veers to the edge.
Nose is tarte berries, funk, damp oak, herb, vinous, bramble berries, blackcurrant.
Taste comprises berry pips, funk, barnyard twang, blackberries, herb, light acidic rise.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced puckering edge.
Solid complex sour.
Hazed reddish amber topped with a dirty crimson cap that veers to the edge.
Nose is tarte berries, funk, damp oak, herb, vinous, bramble berries, blackcurrant.
Taste comprises berry pips, funk, barnyard twang, blackberries, herb, light acidic rise.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced puckering edge.
Solid complex sour.
Tried
on 11 Nov 2025
at 18:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
26/9/2025. Draft pour at the St Albans Beer & Cider Festival 2025. Aroma is hedgerow, woody, twiggy, blackberry, raspberry. Super tangy drying wooded tart fruited taste. Good body. Perfect carbonation. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2025
at 13:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
(Draught at Mother Kelly's Vauxhall, London, 24 Nov 2024) Reddish amber colour with brief, off-white head. Fruity nose with blackberries, citrus, a touch of funk and wild berries. Fruity, tart taste with notes of blackberries, plums, citrus, barnyard and oak wood. Low bitterness. Medium body, dry. Fresh and tart, with a good blackberry character. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
at
Mother Kelly’s Tap Room Vauxhall (SE1)
on 28 Feb 2025
at 22:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the Prague Beer Fest 2023. Hazy reddish body with some golden-like hints, off-white head. Dry tart aroma, berries, light honey. Lean, dry, bramble-driven taste, clean wildness, nice, if simple. Tasty stuff!
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2024
at 18:01