The Great Cherry Farini
Big Rock Brewery

The Great Cherry FariniThe Great Cherry Farini
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From:
Big Rock Brewery
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
82
Avg:
3.37 | pDev: 7.42%
Reviews:
2
Ratings:
12
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Feb 19, 2016
Added:
Mar 28, 2015
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  1
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Ratings by Shadman:
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Rated by Shadman from Canada (AB)

2.73/5  rDev -19%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Oct 03, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.42 by MilkLeg from Canada (AB)

Feb 19, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by sherpahigh from Canada (AB)

Dec 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.4 by Svingjo from Canada (BC)

Aug 10, 2015
 
Rated: 3.33 by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)

Jun 11, 2015
 
Rated: 3.28 by schopenhauerale from Arizona

May 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.09 by jcubz from Canada (SK)

May 20, 2015
 
Rated: 3.78 by BdM from Netherlands

May 12, 2015
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Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)

3.43/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Great name and concept. Big Rock did a bit of research in the naming, however, the same care did not go into producing the beer. Think of this as a Cherry Grasshopper, akin to Cherry 7Up. I would drink this cold, on a hot day, if my options were limited to macros. Or if I was about to be shot out of cannon. Then, I wouldn't give a shit what I was drinking...
May 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.6 by imfinished from Canada (BC)

Apr 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by BigBry from Canada (AB)

Apr 09, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.42/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
355ml can. Not sure how different this one is supposed to be from the house brew at Hudsons last summer. At any rate, this one is named after William Leonard Hunt, AKA The Great Farini, an early 20th century Canadian circus performer, who among other feats, was the first human cannonball.

This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden orange-brick hue, with three skinny fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and certainly bubbly pink-tinged head, which leaves some streaky paint splash lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of gritty, grainy pale and wheat malts, earthy, sort of wan yeast, an at once sugary and tart cherry fruit juice essence, and tame citrusy, leafy hops. The taste is more semi-sweet grainy malt, faintly edgy wheat stalks, a now candy-like cherry cough-drop fruitiness, and very weak leafy, weedy, and generically citrusy hops.

The carbonation is light and fluffy in its low-fidelity frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and generally smooth, the fruitiness aiding and abetting as such. It finishes off-dry, the varied graininess persisting, alongside a surprisingly gentle cherry and citrus bitterness.

Yup, this surely is not the same brew as that overly sweet concoction I had at Hudsons - the addition of Cascade hops and a lessening of the saccharine manifestation of the cherry adjunct has seen to that. Easy to drink, as usual, and overall, as boring as can be for the implied bombast.
Mar 29, 2015
The Great Cherry Farini from Big Rock Brewery
Beer rating: 82 out of 100 with 12 ratings