Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
One liter flip top shared by theisti, super awesome, never thought I would get to try this, thanks Tim (and I guess DA as well). It pours a beautiful dark red and purple color. It is a very different color, were their different berries used, did the wine leach into the beer, or what? Aroma is super strong and really cool with boozy chocolate, cherry chocolate, and light purple grape (a bit of Welcher’s). Taste is again boozy chocolate cherry with lots of tart berries at the end. It’s all a mix up of crazy berries, strong sweet flavors, and alcohol but it works like a great American experiment. It’s also easy drinking, maybe even a bit too light, not much residual sugars leftover.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Blackberry Ale from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a huge, rocky, light brown head that leaves good lacing covering a very dark, hazy purple-brown body. Aroma of blackberry syrup, blackberry seeds, fruit jam and grapes. Taste is a bit vinous with grape, blackberry, silt and leather. Lively bubbles with a dry mouthfeel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
1 liter hand bottle filled by DA at the brewery. Pour is cloudy deep brown ruby, colors nicely swirled. Not much head to speak of, whats there is off white. Aroma of red wine, dark chocolate, pepper, oak woodiness. Ton of stuff going on, but all really well melded. Taste is red wine grapes, cherry sour, blackberry, currant, black pepper. The oak woodiness is present, and a nice base to the varied flavors. This beer has a lot going for it. So much flavor, so much going on, so melded. Palate is perfect, mouth coating, perfectly balanced, beautiful. Wonderful beer, thanks Derek.
theisti (5540) reviewed Vlad The Imp Aler from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 oz draft pour at Brouwer’s in Seattle. Pour is mostly clear orange ruby with a smallish off white head. Aroma of sour wine grapes, resin, interesting and big nose. Very present. Taste is sour cherry, wine, grape skin, tannin and grape juice. Big, sour, fruity, oaky - really interesting. Palate is drying, medium and more of the woodiness from the taste. I am such a fan of this brewery.
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Cuvée du Jongleur from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
750mL cork&wire green, bottom heavy bottle poured into a long stemmed tuliped Cantillon glass. Pours a thick, dark orange color with a small head but a sticky lacing. Cannot see through the beer, not murky, just thick and dark enough to not allow it. Aroma is definitely a mixing of sour and oak, fortunately it is not buttery (I hate buttery), it’s more of a leafy, wet, old wood. The sourness is lightly solvent-like and a bit vinegar. With the combination of the wood the aromas turn very musky. It is bit nose tingling. Taste has a little leftover sweetness, I am think from one of the blended beers just being so strong that even the wild yeast has not fully eaten away at it (maybe the weird Blond Quad, never heard of that before). The oak comes through, again no butter though. Then a long tartness and dryness lingers. There is a hint of fresh tangerine sourness at the end as well. It is decent stuff, a bit too much wood coming through and overall tastes a bit old, aged malt and aged sourness comes through for me. Seems like it is missing something to protect it from oxygen. But still rather fun to drink and a lot more sour than any of their other bottled stuff.
Travlr (30173) reviewed The Vine from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
750 ml bottle courtesy of Ken at Über in Seattle. Reportedly only two cases made. Concord grape juice added prior to fermentation, with brettomyces, in the style of Cantillon Vigneronne. Dark and cloudy maroon with medium white head. Aroma of raisins. Full bodied. Sour throughout, with fruit in the background. A winner.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Blackberry Ale from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
750 ml bottle courtesy of Ken and Rich at Über. Dark and cloudy maroon with pale head. Aroma of fruit and malt. Full bodied, sour with background of sweetish blackberries. Finish of oak and slight hoppiness with a bit of must.
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Apricot from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
I had a few samples at GABF and loved it there but this rating is from a recent bottle and I was much less impressed, so I am not sure what is going on. Pours a clear amber color. Aroma is strong apricot skins, which are very natural smelling. That is about it, natural, fruity, and earthy. Not much sourness coming through. Taste is natural apricot flavor but not much of anything else, especially anything I would call sour. But it is natural, lightly sweet, with no flaws. But as a side note, at GABF this was sour and acidic even.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Vlad The Imp Aler from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Deep amber with medium white head. Sour taste with bitter acidic finish. Mixed feeling among five tasters. Might need to try this one again.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Kriek from Cascade Brewing 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours out a mahogany/brown topped with a small head. Aroma of fruit and oak. Tast was of cherry and wine. It started to tast much better at it sat. Not bad as I took the last drink.