Patio Bear Blackberry Saison
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 13, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 09, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.55/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - apparently this is a collaboration brew (i.e. brewed for) the National chain of beer bars in Calgary. Glad to get a keg of it up here, without having to traipse into downtown Cowtown.
This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with a thin cap of merely wispy off-white head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of muddled blackish berries (note the difference), grainy and bready house malt, an earthy yeastiness, a slight milky sourness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some blackberry and wild strawberry fruitiness, subtle white pepper and coriander spice, benign yeast, and more understated leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly wan in its insouciant frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and essentially smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the malt and fading fruitiness orchestrating the lingering show.
Overall, this is one of the more middling offerings from this brewery that I have encountered of late - insert Canadian beer geek joke here - the fruit is just too restrained, and the base Saison not particularly representative of the style. Ergo, this will be (or probably already has been) a hit on certain Calgary patios all summer.
Aug 13, 2017This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with a thin cap of merely wispy off-white head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of muddled blackish berries (note the difference), grainy and bready house malt, an earthy yeastiness, a slight milky sourness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some blackberry and wild strawberry fruitiness, subtle white pepper and coriander spice, benign yeast, and more understated leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly wan in its insouciant frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and essentially smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the malt and fading fruitiness orchestrating the lingering show.
Overall, this is one of the more middling offerings from this brewery that I have encountered of late - insert Canadian beer geek joke here - the fruit is just too restrained, and the base Saison not particularly representative of the style. Ergo, this will be (or probably already has been) a hit on certain Calgary patios all summer.
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