Blushberry (Tequila Barrel Aged)
Founders Brewing Company
- From:
- Founders Brewing Company
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 5.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Tequila Barrel Aged Blushberry This is Blushberry and it will be a Tequila barrel-aged raspberry Belgian ale with lime. The beer will slice in at 12%
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by klarcbarr3 from Michigan
4.3/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
L= Beautiful, unusual: clear raspberry reddish body, one inch tan/white head, which fades quickly but leaves modest lacing.
S = The nose is like decadent earthly delights. Raspberry, lime, boozy tequila. Sangria on a bender.
T = Full bodied fruit and alcohol. Raspberry, Malt, Tequila, Lime, Kiwi, sugary sweetness. Where it lands on your tongue can change the taste and the enjoyment. This is a brew with a learning curve to it.
F = A bit sticky, but you can't ask for a cleaner sip, considering the ABV and the high sweet & sour contrasts.
O = A beer with strong flavors and demeanor. I think I will warm further to Blushberry if it makes the grade with enough consumers. Otherwise, it seems too specialized to gain a mass audience. Parting, with sweet sorrow, down the road?
Nov 29, 2025S = The nose is like decadent earthly delights. Raspberry, lime, boozy tequila. Sangria on a bender.
T = Full bodied fruit and alcohol. Raspberry, Malt, Tequila, Lime, Kiwi, sugary sweetness. Where it lands on your tongue can change the taste and the enjoyment. This is a brew with a learning curve to it.
F = A bit sticky, but you can't ask for a cleaner sip, considering the ABV and the high sweet & sour contrasts.
O = A beer with strong flavors and demeanor. I think I will warm further to Blushberry if it makes the grade with enough consumers. Otherwise, it seems too specialized to gain a mass audience. Parting, with sweet sorrow, down the road?
Reviewed by philbe311 from Pennsylvania
3.56/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Slightly more than a fingers worth of audibly fizzy dirty khaki colored froth... Limited if any retention as this one fizzes away rather quickly... Color is a translucent ruby red... Nose of raspberry jam and woody notes... A bit cloying on the nose... Palate takes in a very medicinal herbal presence... A bit off putting... feel is medium to full bodied... Sticky with just a touch of carbonation... A struggle to finish and one I would pass on in the future... I respect the effort, but the execution is lacking...
Aug 31, 2025
Reviewed by harrypowers from Massachusetts
4.1/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a clear reddish brown with a 1/2F head and little lacing,
Smells of tart raspberries and lime.
Tastes of raspberries, lime and a bit of Belgian yeast with a lightly tart/ salty , bitter and boozy finish.
Medium body with light pickily carbonation. Lightly syrupy mouthfeel.
This is a tasty and fun mash up of a beer and a margarita. Don't know how this is a pale Belgian ale. Fruit and field for quibbling me
May 15, 2025Smells of tart raspberries and lime.
Tastes of raspberries, lime and a bit of Belgian yeast with a lightly tart/ salty , bitter and boozy finish.
Medium body with light pickily carbonation. Lightly syrupy mouthfeel.
This is a tasty and fun mash up of a beer and a margarita. Don't know how this is a pale Belgian ale. Fruit and field for quibbling me
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.78/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a bottle into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours a clear reddish-ruby color with a small head of fizzy pink foam. The head fades super fast, leaving a light level of streaky lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is massive of a dry current smell mixed with some blackberry and raspberry smell mixed with a strong showing of biscuit and cracker malt. At the same time there is a bit of wood and a touch of tequila and lime.
Taste – While the nose was not sweet, the taste is. The taste starts with a big sweet blackberry and raspberry flavor mixed with a bit of dark current and some candied sugar. There is also a cracker malt and yeasty taste mixed with a moderate showing of lime and some light wood. At the start there is a bit of tequila, but the flavor is rather light. This quickly changes however as more and more tequila and lime join the taste. At the end, the lime ramps up bringing a bit of sourness and leaving one with a berry tequila sour margarita like flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a moderate carbonation level. For the margarita like profile the taste is pretty nice and makes for a nice sipper.
Overall – A sweet margarita inspired beer. Didn’t get a ton of Belgium brew in this, but all in all, this was pretty good.
Apr 24, 2025Appearance – The beer pours a clear reddish-ruby color with a small head of fizzy pink foam. The head fades super fast, leaving a light level of streaky lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is massive of a dry current smell mixed with some blackberry and raspberry smell mixed with a strong showing of biscuit and cracker malt. At the same time there is a bit of wood and a touch of tequila and lime.
Taste – While the nose was not sweet, the taste is. The taste starts with a big sweet blackberry and raspberry flavor mixed with a bit of dark current and some candied sugar. There is also a cracker malt and yeasty taste mixed with a moderate showing of lime and some light wood. At the start there is a bit of tequila, but the flavor is rather light. This quickly changes however as more and more tequila and lime join the taste. At the end, the lime ramps up bringing a bit of sourness and leaving one with a berry tequila sour margarita like flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a moderate carbonation level. For the margarita like profile the taste is pretty nice and makes for a nice sipper.
Overall – A sweet margarita inspired beer. Didn’t get a ton of Belgium brew in this, but all in all, this was pretty good.
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
4.12/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottled on: 2-14-15
A - Pours a nice cherry red color with light pink, thick creamy lacing and steady carbonation.
S - Berry and tequila with an emphasis on the Tequila.
T - Tequila, raspberry, lime, and some caramel malt mixed in. Ends on the sweeter boozier side.
M - Light syrupy body with some alcohol effervescence permeating up to the sinuses.
O - Wasn't sure what to expect with this one and enjoying it.
Mar 25, 2025A - Pours a nice cherry red color with light pink, thick creamy lacing and steady carbonation.
S - Berry and tequila with an emphasis on the Tequila.
T - Tequila, raspberry, lime, and some caramel malt mixed in. Ends on the sweeter boozier side.
M - Light syrupy body with some alcohol effervescence permeating up to the sinuses.
O - Wasn't sure what to expect with this one and enjoying it.
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