Marleaux
Burdock in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.57
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Made from a blend of barrel aged beers that rested on Cab Franc skins, Merlot Skins + Black & Red raspberries + a splash of Cabernet Franc, there’s a lot going on in the design of this beer. We wanted to make something with a huge depth of fruit, and although we didn’t quite reach the Marianas Trench, there are some seriously deep and delightful berry flavours locked up in this beer. Expect notes of black currant, pomegranate molasses, and organic lifestyle spritzers.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
(375ml bottle from the brewery) Pours fairly dark purplish red with a tiny whitish ring and no lace. Aroma is deep cooked dark raspberries, plummy merlot, nice round herbal red wine quality, soft to moderate dusty cellar funk, a little wood. Flavour is a mix of deep black raspberry flesh and a mix of deeper and brighter red fruit red wines, moderate tannin, a little herbal edge, rich earthy quality mid sip on, some leathery Brett, with wood prominent into the finish, tannins are moderate, a little raspberry pop, good minerality. Medium-bodied, light fine fizzing bottle conditioned carb. The fruit addition makes this one of the least wine-like Burdock wine hybrids, but the bar is such that it is still an extremely wine-like beer. Complex and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2023
at 20:33
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375ml (thx, Peter K.!) @ Matt's new place. Packaged April 2021. Appearance: hazy dark purple with no head. Aroma: huge berries, some funk, manure, and tannins. Taste: along the same, quite dry, lots of berries. Overall: very nice, maybe I would prefer a bit more of sweetness.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2023
at 04:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Purple colour, some haze. Head bubbles up quickly and fades down quickly. Fairly big vinous character, jammy, slight bugginess. Soft body, rich fruit, good sense of balance. Dry tannic finish. Excellent.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2023
at 04:44
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375mL bottle, pours a dark pinkish red with a small off-pink head. Aroma is complex and deep, with lots of thorny raspberries upfront, along with plenty of red grape skins and lots of wild yeast. Flavour is wonderfully dry and buggy, with lots of rich, woody vinous, red grape skins, and jammy, tart, dry raspberries. Complex, oaky, vinous and berry-dominant in all the best ways. Just lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2023
at 04:42
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Re-rate: Poured from 375mL bottle (pkg April 2021). Ruby red. Gentle raspberry and tannic vinous quality. Very nice blend. July 30, 2022 @ Sardines, Quebec City (8/3/8/3/16=3.8): Poured from 375mL bottle (pkg 20/07/2022). Ruby red with extremely quick dissipating pink head. Lots of raspberry, underlying vinous character rounds everything out, gentle carbonation, very good, but flavours don’t fill out quite as much, the dissipation occurs relatively quickly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2022
at 23:19