Cherry Bomber
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 23.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 12, 2015
- Added:
- Jul 10, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
NO SCORE
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Their hefe (grasshopper with hefe yeast) with cherry syrup added
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by souvenirs from Canada (BC)
3.3/5 rDev +0.3%
3.3/5 rDev +0.3%
Quite a pretty beer. Pink tinged and bubbly.
Nose sour and yeasty. Okay.
Tastes of yeast and sour cherries. I suppose it's better than the artifically flavoured and sweetened fruit beers out there, but I don't really care for it. That said, it could be a lot worse. It's decent.
Aug 30, 2014Nose sour and yeasty. Okay.
Tastes of yeast and sour cherries. I suppose it's better than the artifically flavoured and sweetened fruit beers out there, but I don't really care for it. That said, it could be a lot worse. It's decent.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.35/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
650ml bottle. Good god, where to start? Ok, props are due for the nice (finally) word play and usage on the 'bomb/cherry/bomber' progression in their usual marketing blurb. Next, how is this any different from the house brew these guys make for the Hudsons chain of wanky Canadiana pubs, called 'Sweet Cheeks Cherry Wheat Ale'? Finally, y'all hopefully know where I side on the 'if ya have time to add it, ya got the time to use yer words to describe it' issue. Puda.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale orange salmon colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly pink-tinged white head, which is not long for this world, and gives up a few minor streaks of sudsy lace around the glass.
It smells of rather sweet bready and pastry-adjacent wheat and caramel malts, weak cherry syrup (whether it be sundae or cola in origin, I care not), chalky candy, a hint of earthy yeast, and weak leafy, weedy hops. The taste is a letdown, even from the nose - still grainy and pastry-like mixed malts, barely definable fruity and sugary cherry notes (syrup all the way, so minor kudos to the original, um, 'adder'), timid beyond belief yeast - maybe it doesn't want to seem too much like Trad - and still ethereal earthy, leafy, and floral hops.
The bubbles are fairly understated, barely arising or arousing, take your pick, the body an adequate medium weight, sure, but bolstered by the pithy, still warm instances of syrup and sugar alike, and smooth by the same unseen falling scepter. It finishes on the sweet side, the expertly blended malt carrying on as programmed, and the cherry 'character' putting it in its preferred and perpetual neutral gear.
Ok, this may or may not be the same brew as Hudsons' current patio pantie removing enabler, but it at least shares some common brew kettle heritage, though it's only the 'cherry' essence that seems to overtly differ - here, it more or less falters in comparison to that Oliver Area blackout (the power grid, not me, silly) evening I spent there last week. Another muddled, and hardly revisitation-worthy offering from our increasingly(?) try-hard friends down the QEII.
Jul 13, 2014This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale orange salmon colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly pink-tinged white head, which is not long for this world, and gives up a few minor streaks of sudsy lace around the glass.
It smells of rather sweet bready and pastry-adjacent wheat and caramel malts, weak cherry syrup (whether it be sundae or cola in origin, I care not), chalky candy, a hint of earthy yeast, and weak leafy, weedy hops. The taste is a letdown, even from the nose - still grainy and pastry-like mixed malts, barely definable fruity and sugary cherry notes (syrup all the way, so minor kudos to the original, um, 'adder'), timid beyond belief yeast - maybe it doesn't want to seem too much like Trad - and still ethereal earthy, leafy, and floral hops.
The bubbles are fairly understated, barely arising or arousing, take your pick, the body an adequate medium weight, sure, but bolstered by the pithy, still warm instances of syrup and sugar alike, and smooth by the same unseen falling scepter. It finishes on the sweet side, the expertly blended malt carrying on as programmed, and the cherry 'character' putting it in its preferred and perpetual neutral gear.
Ok, this may or may not be the same brew as Hudsons' current patio pantie removing enabler, but it at least shares some common brew kettle heritage, though it's only the 'cherry' essence that seems to overtly differ - here, it more or less falters in comparison to that Oliver Area blackout (the power grid, not me, silly) evening I spent there last week. Another muddled, and hardly revisitation-worthy offering from our increasingly(?) try-hard friends down the QEII.
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