Almanac Farmer's Reserve Blackberry
We love blackberries. Tart, sweet and complex but guarded by thorny branches, these alluring fruit have been a favorite of ours since we added them to our very first beer. This sour blonde ale is infused with loads of coastal Blackberries from Swanton Berry Farm in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains and aged in wine barrels for many months. Pair with duck dishes and summer salads.
3.8
212 reviews
Alameda, United States
Community reviews
Citrus fruits, sour lemon, lime, dark berries, blackberry. Hazy, reddish small, creamy, reddish head. Light sour, more sour, acidic citrus fruits, lemon, lime, soft carbonation, medium bodied. Decent. Keg at GABF17, Denver.
Bottle. Pours thin and with little body. It has a great color for a blackberry beer,
and a pretty solid berry nose. But the blackberry doesn't hold up the tart, sourness of the baseline beer as well as the raspberry variant does. This comes across as a bit emptier, but still pleasant and enjoyable. (#6796, 10/5/2017)
Pinkish purple pour with a thin pale pink head. Big tart, sour blackberry, red fruit, earthy, funky, lemon aromas. Taste is sour blackberry, lemon, wheaty, earthy, more blackberry comes through as the tartness starts to fade. Like this one a lot.
375 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 12/1/2016. Pours slightly hazy reddish orange/pink/purple color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light pink head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing lings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big tart/tangy blackberry, fruit skin, cherry, plum, lemon, green apple, red grape, white wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, wheat, and cracker; with light notes of leathery/musty funk, vanilla, pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, blackberries, wine barrels, and light-moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tart/tangy blackberry, fruit skin, cherry, plum, lemon, green apple, red grape, white wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, wheat, and cracker; with light notes of leathery/musty funk, vanilla, pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness. Moderate fruity/lactic tartness; light yeast/wine/oak spiciness, and fruit tang on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy blackberry, fruit skin, cherry, plum, lemon, green apple, red grape, white wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, pepper, light leathery/musty funk, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, blackberries, wine barrels, and light-moderate pale malt flavors; with an awesome malt/tartness and wine/oak spiciness balance; with minimal puckering flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tart/spiciness and wine/oak spiciness. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/grainy/acidic, and fairly tangy/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 7.1%. Overall this is an awesome fruited sour/wild ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, blackberries, wine barrels, and light-moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the balanced lactic/tannic/drying finish. Really great well rounded Brett complexity; perfectly balanced Lacto, fruit, and wine barrels; and just enough pale malt to keep it from being puckering. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Bottle, many thanks Thomas Schneider! Hazy purple color with white head. Aroma is blackberries, barrel, cinnamon. Taste is cinnamon, blackberries, medium carbonation, tannic. Medium carbonation. Awesome, better than Mûre if you ask me (although it's very sour as usual).
Keg at BD Abz. It pours lightly hazy red with a medium white head. The aroma is tart, tangy, sour berry, blackberry, jam, sherbet and some candy. The taste is crisp, tart, good mouth - pucker, sour blackberry, sherbet, acidic bite, granny smith apple and a touch of jam. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Bright, tart and fruity. Rather quaffable.
Keg at Brewdog, Bristol. Pours hazy berry purple with small purple pink head. Nose of acetic sour dark berries, some wood in there too. On the taste it’s uber acidic, sour blackberries, light lemon, soft funk. Big dry, tart, dark berry finish. Light body. Enjoyed this, very tart indeed
12oz ish bottle from Whole Foods Cupertino. Probably been sitting in my closet for two years. Clear amber color with a hint of purple. Nice initial acetic sour aroma with a hint of blackberries...very Almanac. Medium high sourness, but still nice to drink. Probably dry but still has some nice body giving a illusion of fruity sweetness. Very good.
Bottle shared at Chris and Ruth’s House. A slightly hazy reddish purple beer with a small white head. Aroma of tart blackberries , wood, yogurt. Taste of tart blackberries, wood, yogurt, long tart fruity finish.
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Bottle. Pours a softly hazed purple with a medium sized pink white head. Big sticky jam on the nose, berries, fresh and full of seeds. Medium bodied, soft acid, blackberries are all over, bits of fruit and jammy and full of tart berries. Long acid, berries and jam. Quite lovely, lingering acid and berries. So pretty.
Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Summer Gathering, 2017. Pours Hazy amber blueish with a White head. Fruity and funky. Woody. Fresh!
RB Odense Summer Gathering 2017. Hazy red with a small white head. Aroma of red berries and winegum. Dry and very tart fruity flavour with dark berries
Bottle @ RBSG Odense 2017. Pours hazy red with a white head. Aroma of blackberries, tart, rapsbbery alike, bretty in a light spicey way. Taste is loads of fruits, quite sour light dry wood, light grapey alike. good stuff
Bottle. Pours a red color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity sour tart blackberry aroma. Fruity sour tart acidic blackberry flavor. Has a fruit sour tart acidic blackberry finish.
(375ml 2016 bottle from boxbeers.dk) Pours pale red with a small pinkish head that vanishes quickly without lace. Aroma of semi-sweet blackcap raspberries, not so much the rich earthy quality of blackberry, Swedish berry candy, light lactic lemony bite, quite oaky, vanilla, softly vinous, musty basement funk. Flavour is fairly delicate black raspberry merging to blackberry, rather tart, some lactic lemon and yoghurt, fairly woody, with very soft funk. Finish remains tart, mix of citrus and berries, with a little berry seed quality. Fairly light bodied with slightly above average prickling carb. Has a lower fruiting level like many of Almanac’s beers, but still rather nicely flavoured.
(bottle)
Aroma: blackberries, slighlty woody,leather note,
Appearance: ruby color, small pinkish head.
Taste:semi-sour, sweet, flavour of blackberry,cherries and vanilla ,bit wine-ish on the finish.
Palate:medium body, low carbonation.
Overall: Very nice, wish barrel notes were bit more intensive.
Backlogi z kilku ostatnich tygodni - ciąg dalszy. Wytrawne, wyraziście borówkowe, z delikatną nutą octową i intensywną kwasowością.
Bottle
Aroma-sour fruits, vanilla
Appearance-rouge, hazy, rouge foam
Taste-medium sourness, light sweetness,
Palate-medium body, sticky, lively, long finish,
Overall-very good
Bottle, 7%. Hazy deep red/ruby with small pink head. Aroma is malt, berries, fruit, lemon, tart and wood. Flavour is malt, berries, fruit, lemon, sour, citric, oak, wood, wine, medium sweet and a little dry.
Bottle at Cott Botts; clear ribena purple pour with a thin light pink head, aroma has pretty sharp blackberry, taste has smooth blackberry, sour finish.
Can pour at Almanac Taproom in SF, CA. Aroma is musty berries, some mild funk, earthy oak. Taste is lactic, lemon, underripe berries, tannic berry skins, oak. Funky fresh and mildly fruity. Wish there was a bit more juicy berry flavor but overall very balanced.
Deep pink with white head. Tart lemony taste aroma. ,.....
Notes: on tap at the tap room in SF June ’17
375ml bottle. Pours dark pink red. Blackberry, lemon juice, apricot, little wheat, cherry and a long tart citric finish with some sweet blackberry jam to finish. High carbonation helps the flavour pop. Absolutely fantastic.
375ml Bottle. Pours a deep red/purple with small amount of white head. Zesty nose with the fruit somewhat apparent. Medium body with a mild sourness.
Red bit hazy with small white head. Sour fruity aroma. Medium sour bit watery taste with some bitterness on the background and touch of the blackberry notes. Sour fruity aftertaste.
Aroma: blackberry, leaves, barnyard, stone fruit, oak
Taste: medium sour, blackberry, barnyard, leaves, aok
I’ve had this for about a month, but I couldn’t wait any longer. I love these Farmer’s Reserve beers. Aroma of blackberry, overripe apple, and funk. Taste is somewhat funky and sour, with some booze, and diacetyl. Bright red with a thin pink head. Sadly this is not fantastic as expected.
375ml bottle. Somewhat unclear red with quickly fading pink head. Aroma is sweet and tart blackberries, light acidity, wood, earthiness and light funk. Taste is moderately acidic with tart blackberries, earthiness, wood, vinous fruitiness and some citric funk. Medium mouthfeel, medium carbonation and medium acidic vinous berry aftertaste.
Tart blackberry bready aroma
Pours a pinkish red with minimal white bubbly head.
Strong blackberry fruit flavor with loads of mouth puckering sourness.
Medium light bodied with medium high co2, dry sour finish.
Enjoyable sour. Fruit comes through very well