Our Sour #1: Bois & Berries
Barrier Brewing Company
- From:
- Barrier Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.7%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 8.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 08, 2020
- Added:
- Jan 24, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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A fruited kettle Sour w/ Blueberries, Boysenberry, Blackberry! A touch of lactose to make this an approachable almost introductory sour ale. This baby has intense juicy flavors upfront, that are balanced with subtle floral notes. Tangy berry and citrus lemon tartness are rounded out through the use of Milk Sugar. Sooooooo good!!!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.12/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
I had to take a break from my previously scheduled deep-dive into Barrier's collabs due to yet CANother beer with NO approved pic in place! 8={} One of the main tenets of The CANQuest (tm) is NO Crack!ing open a beer until a pic exists for posterity. I have SO many photos to my credit that I do not mind doing so, but I would really prefer others to join me in taking, resizing & submitting pics. At least it gives me an opportunity to delve deeper into the mysterious Barrier BC.
From the CAN: "Blueberries, Boysenberry, Blackberry and Lactose"; "Illustrated by Daniel F. Birch".
First off, they blew a GREAT opportunity with this one! 8=( Their pun uses the very-Pennsylvanian pronunciation of "Bois" as "Boyz", as in our DuBois as "DooBoyz", which always makes me cringe. In French, "Bois" = "Wood", hence my sometimes referring to myself as "L'homme du Bois (bwah)" or the man of wood (The Woodman). IMHO, they should have aged this in wood or added wood chips or done something woody to it. 8=(
This is a GREAT follow-up to Kickin' Knowledge (Strawberry) in which I copped to that fruit being my fave as an adult & blueberry having fallen to #2 from #1 as a kid. That review mentioned my 4th of July Yellow sheet cake with white vanilla frosting & garnished with blueberries & strawberries to resemble to AmeriCAN flag.
Once more, some in-CAN agitation was in order before Crack!ing open the vent. The presence of lactose signaled that clarity was not on the table + all of that fruit really needed to be in suspension. Once all was in readiness, I Crack!ed it open & beCAN a steady C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. It exploded with a burst of what CAN only be described as resembling freshly-spun pink Cotton CANdy! 8=O I'm talking two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, Rose Pink (!) head with great retention. The beer itself was a murky, turbid Mulberry (SRM = N/A, #C64B8C), doubling down on their miss on this one since mulberries were NOT a part of the equation. 8=( But, I am quibbling at this juncture. Nose smelled like a mixed-berry pie, like my maternal grandmother used to make. My grandparents' property abutted a working farm when was a lad & she would pay them to pick berries in the Summer for everything from CANned preserves to the pies that I dearly miss. This smelled wonderful! Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but not much past it. The taste was not at all sour (sorry), & it was only lightly tart. Instead, it was simply berries from every imaginable direction! It was definitely a mixed bag of flavors, making it hard to parse any one from the others, but it was mighty tasty! I kept licking my lips & trying to identify even one of the fruits from its mates, but it was an impossible task. I finally gave into the futility & sat back to enjoy what remained in my glass. Finish was semi-dry, slightly towards vinous in the sense of a red wine, and one that just seemed to cry out for oak, whether simply oak chips or oak-barrel aging, but it left a LOT on the table. 8=( YMMV.
Mar 21, 2020From the CAN: "Blueberries, Boysenberry, Blackberry and Lactose"; "Illustrated by Daniel F. Birch".
First off, they blew a GREAT opportunity with this one! 8=( Their pun uses the very-Pennsylvanian pronunciation of "Bois" as "Boyz", as in our DuBois as "DooBoyz", which always makes me cringe. In French, "Bois" = "Wood", hence my sometimes referring to myself as "L'homme du Bois (bwah)" or the man of wood (The Woodman). IMHO, they should have aged this in wood or added wood chips or done something woody to it. 8=(
This is a GREAT follow-up to Kickin' Knowledge (Strawberry) in which I copped to that fruit being my fave as an adult & blueberry having fallen to #2 from #1 as a kid. That review mentioned my 4th of July Yellow sheet cake with white vanilla frosting & garnished with blueberries & strawberries to resemble to AmeriCAN flag.
Once more, some in-CAN agitation was in order before Crack!ing open the vent. The presence of lactose signaled that clarity was not on the table + all of that fruit really needed to be in suspension. Once all was in readiness, I Crack!ed it open & beCAN a steady C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. It exploded with a burst of what CAN only be described as resembling freshly-spun pink Cotton CANdy! 8=O I'm talking two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, Rose Pink (!) head with great retention. The beer itself was a murky, turbid Mulberry (SRM = N/A, #C64B8C), doubling down on their miss on this one since mulberries were NOT a part of the equation. 8=( But, I am quibbling at this juncture. Nose smelled like a mixed-berry pie, like my maternal grandmother used to make. My grandparents' property abutted a working farm when was a lad & she would pay them to pick berries in the Summer for everything from CANned preserves to the pies that I dearly miss. This smelled wonderful! Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but not much past it. The taste was not at all sour (sorry), & it was only lightly tart. Instead, it was simply berries from every imaginable direction! It was definitely a mixed bag of flavors, making it hard to parse any one from the others, but it was mighty tasty! I kept licking my lips & trying to identify even one of the fruits from its mates, but it was an impossible task. I finally gave into the futility & sat back to enjoy what remained in my glass. Finish was semi-dry, slightly towards vinous in the sense of a red wine, and one that just seemed to cry out for oak, whether simply oak chips or oak-barrel aging, but it left a LOT on the table. 8=( YMMV.
Reviewed by ThePrisoner from Colorado
3.39/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.39/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
L: This is a very visually appealing beer. Between the raspberry red body and the light pink head, it makes you want to bite in nice juicy berry.
S: Nothing special about the smell of this beer. It smells like a sour but not like a fruit ale, sadly.
T: Its a pleasant sipping beer that is fairly fruity and mildly sour.
F: Again, nothing special about the feel of this beer, in fact a bit too lacking in the sour feel.
O: This is a decent drinking beer that gets marks for being well and fruity but loses marks for it's like of sourness.
Feb 27, 2020S: Nothing special about the smell of this beer. It smells like a sour but not like a fruit ale, sadly.
T: Its a pleasant sipping beer that is fairly fruity and mildly sour.
F: Again, nothing special about the feel of this beer, in fact a bit too lacking in the sour feel.
O: This is a decent drinking beer that gets marks for being well and fruity but loses marks for it's like of sourness.
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