Jack Russell Blackberry Abbey Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

On first impressions, I wondered..where's the blackberries? I got a sweet fruity extract nose, but not much else. Pour is a hazy brownish/purple color. Mouthfeel was thin, minerally and astringent. Flavors were weak and I got some sweetness that tasted a bit like blackberries but it was slight sour too, but it had this spritzer type flavor, like drinking blackberry mineral beer if that makes sense. Not an abomination, but nothing I'd revisit.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Reddish brown color. Small head. Aroma is fruity (blackberries) and malty. A medium bodied Abby dubbel that according to the bottle is brewed in the English tradition. First off, this is a very hard beer to describe. It’s possibly a cross between a blackberry lambic and an abbey double. It has the sweetness and fruitiness of a sweet lambic, a nice malt backbone and the tartness/sourness of a kreik. There is the definite fruit beer sweetness/tartness of the blackberries, and it has a nice malt backbone behind all that lambic/kriek thing as well. It’s a little confusing taste wise, but I’m starting to roll with it. Very smooth taste, perhaps a little thin in the mouthfeel department. An interesting beer, definitely worth trying. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.