Avalonia: Black
Fox Farm Brewery
- From:
- Fox Farm Brewery
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 5.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 06, 2025
- Added:
- May 21, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
With Black Raspberries and Blackberries
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Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland
4.49/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
375 ml bottle split with my wife (okay, not exactly an even split) and poured into a snifter. Pours a gorgeous opaque deep purple with a medium-sized light purple head. Aroma and flavor feature juicy/tart blackberries, oak tannins, vanilla, and a medium amount of barnyard/leather funk. It's not a delicate beer, but balances the fruit/acidity/oak/funk very well. Overall it's really delicious and I'm glad I have a second bottle.
Jan 23, 2023
Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.53/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.53/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours an extremely dark grape color, abundant crimson fluffy head that lingers. One of the most beautiful pours I have ever seen. Aroma is a light funky mix dark berries. Big flavor for 5.6%; it had a very big berry flavor, nice and jammy. Funky sourness balances the sweetness perfectly. Acidity is mouthwatering but not too acidic. Carbonation adds to a creamy texture. Overall a phenomenal funky ale, just excellent.
10/11/20
500 ml bottle dated 3/2020, Batch 1 - thanks Adam!!
4.5 rating
Oct 12, 202010/11/20
500 ml bottle dated 3/2020, Batch 1 - thanks Adam!!
4.5 rating
Reviewed by von_kaiser from Connecticut
4.13/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Cabernet dark...oaky cab smell too but the berry presence is wonderful. taste is a berry blast, not picking up any barrel and absolutely no sweetness. Flavor fades quick and leaves an extremely dry flavor...very thin feel.
Aug 09, 2020
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.58/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.58/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
This one pours a dark and deep purplish color, with a small pink-hued head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like seedy and jammy dark, dark black raspberry, rosemary, a yogurty and cheesy funk, and tons of jammy blackberry.
The black raspberry and the blackberry are obviously the stars here, but there's a surprising level of subtle complexity for two fruits that generally dominate. There's some rosemary and spruce type flavors, with a nice yogurty and lemony funk to it. It's got a bit of ripe cheesiness to it, in a good way.
This is absolutely tremendous, and probably the best fruited beer that I've had from Fox Farm.
Jun 18, 2020This smells like seedy and jammy dark, dark black raspberry, rosemary, a yogurty and cheesy funk, and tons of jammy blackberry.
The black raspberry and the blackberry are obviously the stars here, but there's a surprising level of subtle complexity for two fruits that generally dominate. There's some rosemary and spruce type flavors, with a nice yogurty and lemony funk to it. It's got a bit of ripe cheesiness to it, in a good way.
This is absolutely tremendous, and probably the best fruited beer that I've had from Fox Farm.
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