Showing posts with label Berry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berry. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

What the Huck


Just do it. Just do the review - get one more ahead. No matter how crappy it is..tick tick tic. My readers are familiar with my crappy reviews.All 90+ of them, yes I keep track. I'm goal orientated remember?

What the Huck = 5/10
Ratebeer wanted password and I was not into that today
Beer Advocate B

Ok.focus. I'm a little bit blurry from the beer- or is it from playing Left4Dead2 for over an hour? Most likely the game, we tried a new map..SHUT UP and focus.

I never expect great things from Fernie brewing; this is a fault of mine. Maybe I am held up on the name. I've been to Fernie, BC. Honestly the best part about the town was the road sign that said "please visit us again". That again is not fair- it is near... Well, the sign was very nice.

The Huck is a huckleberry wheat ale. It did not give a good first impression with it's uneventful wheat and grass nose. There was a slight berry fruitness involved. Taste is very important. WOW, that last sentence makes me sound so stupid. It tastes like every other wheat beer you have sampled: cereal, grass, yeast and citrus. The Huck added a suitable tart huckleberry flavour. It was neither too tart, nor overly syrupy. Your linger was tart yeast with an off sweet berry tongue caress. This is the perfect summer beer. If you see their Sap Sucker Maple Porter: get it!

Taste +3
Aftertaste +1
Alcohol Content 0 5%
Value +1
Appearance 0 (Fernie has never made great labels)

Thursday, August 12, 2010

24-Mile Blueberry Pail Ale (Phillips)

24-Mile Blueberry Pail Ale (Phillips)

The claim to fame for this latest Phillips brew was that all ingredients were obtained within 24 miles of the brewery. The barley malt was grown and malted locally and the hops came from Saanich. This may not seem like much, but it actually is quite a big deal. The carbon footprint of beer (and wine) is not really that big. It is something special when a company can make it even smaller.


Taste +3

I was surprised how mild the brew smelled. The nose was very lager like: pale, grassy, lettuce with a slight acidic blueberry waft. This 'Pail' ale was the colour of a faded purple stuffed animal with little head retention. Sipping this beer also gave no surprises. There was pale grasses, mild nuts (pecans), and lettuce with a tart astringency similar to that found in dried blueberries. The medium mouthfeel was surprisingly carbonated and effervescent. Overall a very refreshing beer; almost ciderlike in sweetness. The blueberries were there, but they were not a dominating flavour.

Aftertaste +1

The slight berry astringency faded along with the floral and lightly spicy hop ending.

Alcohol Content 0 5%


Value +1

This was not a beer I would buy again, but I really liked it for a few reasons. Firstly it is very tasty and unique. The second is that it shows initiative. I love the idea that all of the ingredients for this beer were grown right here in the Greater Victoria area. It makes the carbon footprint for this beer comparatively small. Very few brewers are using local ingredients; to my knowledge only Rogue Ales is making a local ingredient beer.

Ingame Enhancement +1

I biked home carrying this beer; so my carbon footprint got even smaller.

Overall 6/10

This is a great beer, not only for flavour but for the planet. The floral, pale ale was greatly enhanced by the local tart blueberries. Well done.

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Swan's Raspberry Wheat

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Swan's Raspberry Ale


Swan's Raspberry Ale

Ratebeer 2.96 39 percentile
Beer Advocate B

Taste +3

The nose is ripe with fresh raspberry juice. The first sip is rather cooler like but heavier on the alcohol. You can pick up a lot of malt, but the tart raspberry jam flavour is the most dominant.

Aftertaste +1

After the sweetness leaves, you are left with a tart raspberry vinaigrette taste.

Alcohol Content +1 7%

Value 0

I thought it was a little sweet.

Ingame Enhancement 0

No L4D tonight; it was all Singstar on the PS3. Be thankful you didn't hear my performance.

Overall 5/10

If you like sweet, cooler like beers, this one is for you