Purple Lamborghini
Barrel Theory Beer Company

A huge thanks to Jeff for this one. 750ml crowler into a Brooklyn Brewery snifter.

You don't often come across a beer that is florescent purple/red with a bright pink head. Nose is raspberry and blackberry. Tart, juicy with a touch of plasticy-ness. Beer opens tart raspberry and blackberry. Jammy and seedy. Puckeringly tart, especially as it builds in the middle. Finish is fruit punch and more juicy raspberry. Body is light with ample carbonation. Prickly and lively on the palate and goes down puckering and aggressive. Lingering, filmy aftertaste.

Pretty good if a little one-dimensional with not a lot of balance. The color is amazing though and the fruit really shines through here.

 

 

Looks like grape juice, smells like grape juice, tastes like grape juice - with a smidge of alcohol. I like fruit beers, but this is a fruit beer on PED’s. Exceptional, IMHO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 750 ml crowler can into a Barrel Theory chalice.

Appearance: Pours dark purple. Moderate amount of bubbles and a slight finger of pinkish head.

Smell: A very juicy and fairly sour aroma with lots of berries. Big upfront scent of raspberries, boysenberry, and marion berry. Hints of cracker and yeast. A really nice juicy aroma.

Taste: Like it smells, a really juicy and fairly sour taste with a huge berry presence. Big upfront juicy taste of raspberries, boysenberry, and marion berry. Moderate tartness and sourness. Background notes of cracker and yeast. A really good taste.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with a moderate level of carbonation. Juicy, puckering, and semi drying.

Overall: A really good fruit bomb Sour. Huge blast of berry flavors with moderate tartness.

 

 

 

 

they are calling this one a beer berliner. its insanely purple, like, darker than the biggest red wine, looks like beet juice or something, just so dense and saturated on the color, it looks really unnatural, but its pretty, and the violet pink head is puffy and lasting, it looks awesome. the appearance is the best feature though, as this fruit seems almost too much in here, and the sourness isnt quite there enough to make this balanced and drinkable, but they are definitely on to something with the insane fruiting on this type of low alcohol sour. maybe marionberry and blueberry, its tough to say, almost a generic berry complexion, blackberry too perhaps, but there is a lot of it, and it has to be more than one fruit alone, currants too, there is a piquant quality about it, but no fruit stands out to me specifically, intense as it is. the sourness is clean but i think its not quite prominent enough to cut though the fruit, which finishes sweet and grapey to me. lots of it. more acidity would help lighten it a little, but at the same time, i really like this being so different and robust, and taming it is not what i want. good carbonation, lots of body for what it is, sort of a chalky texture too, clean citrus at the end. nicely made beer, really cool recipe, and one of the more unique and memorable beers we had in here!