All the Best Hats
Small Pony Barrel Works in Dunrobin, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.46
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Canadian Honeyberry. Blue Honeysuckle. Lonicera Caerulea. These are other names for the Haskap Berry. A curious blue fruit from the Honeysuckle bush, it has caught our attention as it exhibits many different berry flavours, ranging from cranberry and raspberry through blueberry and grape. Sort of a jack of all trades. A wearer of all the best hats!
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Dark purple pour, with a medium pink head. Aroma is subtle sweet haskaps, and blueberries, but also quite tart on the nose with some white vinegar notes. The finish is a blast of sour, incredibly sour, with a punch of white vinegar, and a soft haskap/blueberry finish.
Helsdon (1068) ticked All the Best Hats from Small Pony Barrel Works 3 years ago
Lol that might be the worst/best label ever. My bottle has the hats in colour. Pours like they only put half the required water in the purple Kool-Aid. Fruity nose, with some funk and vinegar nose. First sip lots of berries up front, but that aserbic, vinger finish was just off the charts, with some chalk, but that's first sip. Things usually smooth out as your glass empties, but I gotta say, I love SPBW, but this one was a bit much.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed All the Best Hats from Small Pony Barrel Works 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
750ml at Matt's amenity room. Appearance: hazy copper with a white head. Aroma: acidic, tons of berries, some slight 🍯 notes. Taste: acidic bomb. Overall: no, just no.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from 750mL bottle (2019 vintage). Near clear light red. Mild tartness with some light cranberry and inconspicuous other red berries, touch of oak.
Oakes (33493) reviewed All the Best Hats from Small Pony Barrel Works 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
This has a browny-purple colour, a bubbly head, and it's very tart, acetic, barrelly, a little bit of barrelly stuff. Intense and sharp.
mcberko (47456) reviewed All the Best Hats from Small Pony Barrel Works 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
750mL bottle, pours a deep dark red with a small beige head. Aroma is rather acetic, with red berries, tart jammy berries and acidity. Flavour is very tart and jammy, with lots of jammy, pithy berries, moderate acidity, and some oak. Quite acidic, with lots of pithy berries. Pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Time to support our local breweries in these hard virusy times, so got a box with all beers I had not tried yet. Decided to start with this one. Pours a slightly hazy amber-red colour with a light pinkish frothy head, average retention and a creamy ring is left. Loads of berries in the aromas with the stingy sour bite. The sourness is a punch in the face as usual in the taste. It just lingers, with the berries in the background. Some vinegar notes blend things. Interesting berries used here, but goes well with the wild ale ingredients. Again, very well brewed if you like the style.
Lubiere (24459) ticked All the Best Hats from Small Pony Barrel Works 6 years ago
A reddish purple ale with a thin purplish white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light berries, ground cherries, lactic acid, Epsom salts, very nice. In mouth, a nice tart sweet fruity mix with lactic notes, light blackberry, light mineral notes, very nice. On tap at Funkfest 2019.