Avalonia - Black
Fox Farm Brewery in Salem, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series Out of Production|
Score
7.37
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As is typical, this blend of Avalonia was pulled from a variety of barrel-aged farmhouse ales exhibiting complimentary qualities that would make it particularly well-suited for a secondary fermentation on whole fruit, in this case, Black Raspberries and Marion Blackberries. This second batch of Avalonia: Black bears those characteristics that made the first so special - distinctive earthy, vinous and spruce-like flavors and aromas. We’re finding this iteration to be a touch more jammy and ripe on the fruit character and it has a remarkably soft and full texture for the style.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft: Poured a dark maroon almost black with a reddish purple head. Aroma is funky fruit, blackberry, berry, woodsy. Taste is tart fruity, berry, blackberry, raspberry, funky but very drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tørst
on 16 May 2025
at 11:25
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
375mL batch 2, bottled 2/22, drunk 8/4/22. Dark cranberry-violet-burgundy. Deep violet-pink head, large and well-retained. Holy shit. Mega-even fruit acids with soft, soft, chalky-tinted barrel character and soft, wheat-like grains. No big, punchy acids, just amazingly juicy fruits, so soft and sniffable. In the mouth it's soft, malty, extremely well-attenuated with juicy fruits, tart acidity and an incredible, milky-lactic character that softens the blow of the fruit and barrel acidity without dampening the brightness. Like a classy pinot noir without all of the alcohol. Mineral, fruit, good acidity, deep textures...just wow.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2022
at 02:53