Blackberry Bruin
Elk Valley Brewing Co.

Pours a reddish brown color. The head was maybe a 1/2 finger. Slightly off white. What was there didn't last extremely long, and dissipated to a ring around the glass.
The nose - to quote Jed Clampett - Ohhh Doggie! Nice sour blackberry aroma. Just totally pleasing to my nose. There's also a slight sweet undertone to the sour that adds to the aroma in a pleasing way.
Taste - There's the blackberry. It's not very sour as the nose would suggest. There's a bready, yeasty flavor to this beer that overwhelms the blackberry. Not sure I'm digging it.
There's some carbonation that tickles my throat. Decent body.
Boy, I'm glad to try it, but not sure that it really works right. It is a unique beer, to say the least.

 

 

Pours a murky mahogany-tinged purple with a sliver of cream colored head, drops off rapidly. Dingy looking, mininal head retention & lacing, looks more like homemade wine than anything else

S: Blackberries & sourness, with a little green apple skin thrown into the mix

T: Follows the nose, fairly intense blackberry tartness as well up front.. More blackberry tartness & some pear as this warms, was expecting more dryness/leathery flavor. Finishes tart with black berry & raspberry, just a little puckery dryness

MF: Medium body, slight carbonation

Drinks pretty easy, nice flavors, but drives outside the lanes of a Bruin, so markdowns for that, pretty much across the board