Fruit/Wood/Time: Black Raspberry
Westbrook Brewing Co. in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.52
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at Salud. Clear deep royal purple color light pink head. Dusty peppery berry aroma. Taste is tart bone dry berries. Wow tasty
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle - pours purple white head - nose and taste of black raspberry, oak, and lots of fruit - soured - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Very sour, very dry, with a heavy vinegar-tinged undertone providing a savory streak, making the pint almost condiment-ish. Not getting much barrel-aging beyond hints of oak. Raspberry tartness dominates, lots of citric acidity, underlined by mustard and wood. Okay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Got in a BIF from Dragginballs76. 500 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 3/20/2018. Pours a moderately hazy very dark ruby red/purple color with a small foamy dark pink head with poor retention, that reduces to nothing pretty quickly. No glass lacing, some clinging bubbles and streaming carbonation. Aromas of big sour/tart/tangy black raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, cherry, plum, currant, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, and lightly toasted bread; with lighter notes of peppercorn, leathery/musty funk, red wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, black raspberries, and moderate oak/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big sour/tart/tangy black raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, cherry, plum, currant, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, and lightly toasted bread; with lighter notes of peppercorn, leathery/musty funk, red wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, fruit tang; and light yeast/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of sour/tart/tangy black raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, cherry, plum, currant, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, lightly toasted bread, light leather/funk/vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, black raspberries, and moderate oak/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/tart/sourness and tangy fruit balance; with no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderate increasing dryness from tart/sourness, tangy fruit, and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, acidic/tangy/tannic, and fairly crisp balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 5.7%. Overall this is a fantastic fruited sour/wild ale. All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, black raspberries, and moderate oak/bready malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and easy to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/tannic/drying finish; not overly lactic. Fantastic jammy berry presence, and balanced Brett/Bacteria complexity; nice oak presence, and pale/wheat malt backbone against acidity. A highly enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
7 oz pour shared at Snallygaster 2018. Dark reddish purple with pink head. Aromas of berries. Tastes of berries, cherries, raspberries. Light body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 1pt.0.7fl.oz. @ Scooper Tasting. [ As Westbrook Fruit/Wood/Time: Black Raspberry ].Clear dark red - purple colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, purple head. Aroma is light to moderate black raspberry - raspberry, berries, jam, funk. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a long duration, blackcurrant, raspberry, jam, dry, light tart - lemony citric. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180915] 7-3-7-3-15
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Powerfull beries acetic flavor. Powerfull berries finish. Creamy palate.