Blackberry Crystal Wheat
Shannon Brewing Company
- From:
- Shannon Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Kristallweizen
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.21 | pDev: 9.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 05, 2026
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.35/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
RB transfer
Feb 05, 2026
Reviewed by puck1225 from Texas
3.35/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Had this with a vegan brunch in Austin, TX. Nice looking beer, clear yellow color with nice lacing. Smell and taste is light and not well defined. Grassy and somewhat fruity, a bit of pepper. This beer is refreshing but it lacks any well defined flavors.
Aug 16, 2020
Rated by Txex06 from Texas
3.73/5 rDev +16.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +16.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Very clean and crisp easy drinking beer. Don't expect a kristalweizen, expect exactly what the back of the can says.
Apr 15, 2019
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.82/5 rDev -12.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.82/5 rDev -12.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
355ml can nabbed at a beer store in Austin, TX.
"Kristallweizen infused with real blackberry fruit." "Unfiltered." "Unpasteurized." "Fire-brewed with pure Texas spring water, whole grain, whole flower hops..." IBU: 22. SRM: PRPL. 6.2% ABV.
APPEARANCE: Pours an eye-catching pink head atop a depleted clear pink body. Appears filtered contrary to Shannon's claim that it (and hey, let's be fair: if you brew an unfiltered kristallweizen, isn't that just a hefeweizen?" No yeast/lees are visible within.
AROMA: Faint indistinct berry...wouldn't peg it as blackberry in a blind tasting at all. 2-row.
That's it. A very subdued muted aroma of low intensity.
TASTE: Not finding the clean fresh wheat I'd expect in a great kristalweizen, nor any German ale yeast notes (banana, clove, phenol). Just 2-row and muted indistinct berry.
A shrug of a stab at a kristalweizen. More a fruited ale with poor depth of flavour.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, overcarbonated, slightly refreshing.
OVERALL: A forgettable beer if ever there was one. I guess Shannon's description of this as an "unfiltered kristallweizen [sic]" should have had me running the other way. Drinkable, though.
C (2.82) / AVERAGE
Apr 22, 2018"Kristallweizen infused with real blackberry fruit." "Unfiltered." "Unpasteurized." "Fire-brewed with pure Texas spring water, whole grain, whole flower hops..." IBU: 22. SRM: PRPL. 6.2% ABV.
APPEARANCE: Pours an eye-catching pink head atop a depleted clear pink body. Appears filtered contrary to Shannon's claim that it (and hey, let's be fair: if you brew an unfiltered kristallweizen, isn't that just a hefeweizen?" No yeast/lees are visible within.
AROMA: Faint indistinct berry...wouldn't peg it as blackberry in a blind tasting at all. 2-row.
That's it. A very subdued muted aroma of low intensity.
TASTE: Not finding the clean fresh wheat I'd expect in a great kristalweizen, nor any German ale yeast notes (banana, clove, phenol). Just 2-row and muted indistinct berry.
A shrug of a stab at a kristalweizen. More a fruited ale with poor depth of flavour.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, overcarbonated, slightly refreshing.
OVERALL: A forgettable beer if ever there was one. I guess Shannon's description of this as an "unfiltered kristallweizen [sic]" should have had me running the other way. Drinkable, though.
C (2.82) / AVERAGE
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