BridgePort Stumptown Tart (Marion Berry)

Formerly brewed at BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Fruit Beer
Portland, Oregon USA

22oz bottle that has been sitting in my fridge. Pours a clear slightly brown rosé with a loose off white head that condenses and settles down to a ring around the edge of my tulip. Aroma of oak, tart berries, hints of balsamic, and a touch of wet horse blanket. Tart berry up front with a good amount of oak and then finishes with just a touch of funk and pretty dry. I think the only thing that would have made this more enjoyable for me would have been a bit more Marion Berry flavor. I am glad I still had a bottle of this as I had it before, but never rated it. This years was a HUGE let down and this one was very underrated IMHO.

Bottle shared at tasting. Poured a murky redish brown with white head. Aroma of vinous fruit, berries, funk, and wood. Taste is similar, with some grain and plenty of sourness. More wood comes through in the tart finish. Not bad, but not really great either.

500th Rating - Been aching to try this, thanks BuckeyeBoy!!! - Pours a murky amber with basically no head...that is some funky smelling shit...sour, underripe berries, astringent wood...flavour is similarly sour, grainy, light undiscernable berries...serious alcohol well hidden, watch out...

Bottle. Reddish amber pour with a medium white head. Tart berry wine aroma with funk. Tart and funky berry flavor with some noticeable yeast character.

Pours clear cranberry colored with no lasting head. Smell is fruity, tart and funky, with a bit of oak and dust. Taste is lightly fruity with berryies and prety dry. Just not very flavorful though. Like spritzer water with faint fruit essence and funk. eh...

Tasting @ argo0’s place. Bomber courtesy of acrdz. Murky orange with a pink tinged beige head. Fruity berry nose, a bit of funk. Sweet / tart flavor, berries, a mild lactic sourness. Can’t detect the 8.3% alcohol in the slightest. Tasty!

Picked up a single 22-oz bomber at Bottleworks in Seattle, WA and sampled during Minnesota first annual Sourfest. Pours a semi-clear salmon colored brew with a fast dissolving light pink head that dissipates to a fine off-white ring. Aroma of golden grain malt, some tart cherries, a hint of gouda cheese, and citrus zest. Taste is medium bodied, plenty of carbonation with flavors of mildly tart cherries and strawberries, some cereal grain, and some wood character. Finish is slightly watery, not as funk dense as most other lambics but still has some flavor.

lots of berry funkiness in the smell .. pours a murky brown dark jack ruby colour .. lots of fruity tartness and some bitterness ... similar to an authentic kriek ... grade A lacing .. needs to be fuller to be great, but quite refreshing and strangely mellow ... ’’no more lies, i loved that bagel!’’ ... enjoyable sweet/tart balance , sourheads and lambic lovers might really like this .... MLS refs are a joke ..