Briarpatch
Stone Corral Brewery
- From:
- Stone Corral Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Schwarzbier
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 14.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 22, 2025
- Added:
- Nov 30, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Brimming with fruit, this brew blends clean layers of dark malt, mocha, caramel and noble hops in our award winning black lager with unmistakable flavor and aroma of ripe, red raspberries.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.25/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Can poured into a lager glass.
The appearance was a nice dark brown close tp black color with two and a half finger's worth of eggshell white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Some speckled spotty lace ran here and there.
The aroma had a superb fresh sweet to tart red raspberry quality punching at a touch of tobacco, earthiness, mocha, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, German lager yeastiness (slight dark breadiness/biscuit/toast) and ended with a little bit of a clenching sweet malt (toffee? I think so).
The flavor was moderately sweet with an ample bitterness that seemed to blend the raspberry finely to the dark chocolate. Milk chocolate seemed more like cocoa powder here. Light cocoa powder punching the raspberry sweetness with a touch of tartness.
The mouthfeel was almost medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. There is some drying cocoa-ish powder astringency pulling at my tongue. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt right on par as projected by the brewer. Super nice "schwarzbier"-esque finish (the German yeast does take hold here just as I had hoped for) - earthy dryness with biscuit and dark chocolate meddling finely.
Overall, a Stone Corral creative take on a stellar schwarzbier - the raspberry was just enough and not meddlesome. I'd love to have this again.
Dec 05, 2017The appearance was a nice dark brown close tp black color with two and a half finger's worth of eggshell white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Some speckled spotty lace ran here and there.
The aroma had a superb fresh sweet to tart red raspberry quality punching at a touch of tobacco, earthiness, mocha, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, German lager yeastiness (slight dark breadiness/biscuit/toast) and ended with a little bit of a clenching sweet malt (toffee? I think so).
The flavor was moderately sweet with an ample bitterness that seemed to blend the raspberry finely to the dark chocolate. Milk chocolate seemed more like cocoa powder here. Light cocoa powder punching the raspberry sweetness with a touch of tartness.
The mouthfeel was almost medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. There is some drying cocoa-ish powder astringency pulling at my tongue. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt right on par as projected by the brewer. Super nice "schwarzbier"-esque finish (the German yeast does take hold here just as I had hoped for) - earthy dryness with biscuit and dark chocolate meddling finely.
Overall, a Stone Corral creative take on a stellar schwarzbier - the raspberry was just enough and not meddlesome. I'd love to have this again.
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