Don't Blush
Crying Eagle Brewing Company
- From:
- Crying Eagle Brewing Company
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 2.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 25, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 02, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.55/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
CAN:12 fl oz pull-tab with pink label art. Ran me $1.65 USD plus tax at a beer store in Metairie, LA. Canned on: 08/16/19.
5.0% ABV. "Berliner weisse style ale raspberry passion fruit." "Ale fermented with passion fruit & raspberry." Seasonal series.
APPEARANCE: Subtly pink head sticks around a good 8-10 minutes. Body is a semi-vibrant copper colour. No yeast/lees are visible.
AROMA: Lactobacillus, faint sourness (~2/10), no real acidity or tartness, powdered sugar covered strawberries, berry/currant aromatics (none of which are recognizably raspberry or passion fruit - sorry). I don't detect overt wheat.
Quite mellow and pleasant. Suggests a soft berry-laden ale with mild sourness and no tang, tartness, or acidity - not traditional, but welcome.
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE & TEXTURE: A soft pillow of a texture with perfect carbonation. Powdered sugar covered raspberry is at the heart of its flavour, manipulating any soft flaked wheat malt to its whims. Acidity and tartness are low for a fruited Berliner Weisse. Sourness is minimal (~1-2/10) - just enough to lend some interesting twang to this fruit-dominant ale without making it palate-stripping or puckering. Lactobacillus bacteria is barely noticeable.
Smooth, wet, refreshing, very approachable...just a cushion of a mouthfeel atop which the pleasant fruits sit.
OVERALL: It's hard to deny this is one damn drinkable ale. The passion fruit could come through more, but it's impeccably balanced for what it is even though it's really more fruited ale than Berliner Weisse proper. Its softness and mellow fruity flavours are the draw, and while I can imagine it more sour, more fruity, and more acidic to its benefit, it's hard to recommend fixin' what ain't broke.
I've only dipped my toes into the Louisiana beer scene since moving here, but this is easily in my Top 10 for Louisiana beers thus far. A lovely Summer sipper I'd buy sixers of each season.
Low B (3.55) / GOOD
Sep 02, 20195.0% ABV. "Berliner weisse style ale raspberry passion fruit." "Ale fermented with passion fruit & raspberry." Seasonal series.
APPEARANCE: Subtly pink head sticks around a good 8-10 minutes. Body is a semi-vibrant copper colour. No yeast/lees are visible.
AROMA: Lactobacillus, faint sourness (~2/10), no real acidity or tartness, powdered sugar covered strawberries, berry/currant aromatics (none of which are recognizably raspberry or passion fruit - sorry). I don't detect overt wheat.
Quite mellow and pleasant. Suggests a soft berry-laden ale with mild sourness and no tang, tartness, or acidity - not traditional, but welcome.
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE & TEXTURE: A soft pillow of a texture with perfect carbonation. Powdered sugar covered raspberry is at the heart of its flavour, manipulating any soft flaked wheat malt to its whims. Acidity and tartness are low for a fruited Berliner Weisse. Sourness is minimal (~1-2/10) - just enough to lend some interesting twang to this fruit-dominant ale without making it palate-stripping or puckering. Lactobacillus bacteria is barely noticeable.
Smooth, wet, refreshing, very approachable...just a cushion of a mouthfeel atop which the pleasant fruits sit.
OVERALL: It's hard to deny this is one damn drinkable ale. The passion fruit could come through more, but it's impeccably balanced for what it is even though it's really more fruited ale than Berliner Weisse proper. Its softness and mellow fruity flavours are the draw, and while I can imagine it more sour, more fruity, and more acidic to its benefit, it's hard to recommend fixin' what ain't broke.
I've only dipped my toes into the Louisiana beer scene since moving here, but this is easily in my Top 10 for Louisiana beers thus far. A lovely Summer sipper I'd buy sixers of each season.
Low B (3.55) / GOOD
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