Market Street Brisco Bridge Blackberry Lager

Brewed by Market Street Brewing Co. (NY)
Style: Fruit Beer
Corning, New York USA

Serve in Flute

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Tap at the brewpub - aroma of berries. Very fruity but a bit fake. Hazy orange pour. Caramel malts. Not terrible but not great

On tap 8/1/2011 Pours a shade darker than golden with a thinnish off white head that dissipates to a ring. Smell is sweet syrupy and fruity with a bit of a honey grainy edge. Smells like someone poured blackberry syrup into their regular lager. Taste confirms that my nose is working. Very sweet fruity taste attached to a backbone of hay and grain. Sickeningly sweet artificial flavors abound with this one. Fizzy carbonation medium body with a syrupy mouthfeel. I should have known better than to order this one, but it was a nice sunny day and we were sitting outside, it seemed like a good idea.

draft at the brewpub. gold with a small white head. aroma of berries. berries were forward in the taste but not overpowering or sweet. nothing special but not a bad draft on a warm evening.

Draft at the brewpub. Pours gold with a thin white head. Sweet berry like fruity aroma. The flavor is sweet with a strange berry like fruity sweetness. A bit of a dry finish. Not bad.

Well I didn’t sense any Blackberry. No Head or lacing to speak of. Very slightly cloudy but no color of blackberries influencing here. Only the faitest if any sense of Berries, but a clear sense of Paprika. Sweeter than their Light lager but not much else.

Sample on tap at brewpub. Very little aroma to this one - maybe some berry aroma but not much else. Mild copper clear with thin off-white lacing head. Medium body with medium carbonation. Starts dull with light fruity flavor. Mild berry. Bitter finish and light bitter after - not true berry flavor but a syrup, so there is a chemical concentrate bitterness in the after as well.

I am not a fan of the vast majority of fruit beers, which are only synthetically injected. They must sell to some crowd to be included in lineups, and this must be a case in point despite poor ratings by a knowledgeable crowd. This sour lager had the addition of blackberry juice and no aroma, suggesting an injection of something. It’s clear to me it’s artificial. Thin, and a falloff in appearance from the regular lager.

Hazed gold, white creamy head. Nose was all blackberry with hints of bubblegum and yeast. Fruity throughout, crisp, with a light bitterness in the end. Not to sweet which is a good thing. Light bodied, light carbonation, fruity finish. Not half bad...

Crystal clearstraw body with white head. Aroma is medium sweet, blackberry. Taste is medium sweet, blackberry, light cereal, seltzer. Light body with light stickiness. Much better than the base beer alone.

Had I been near a drain I would have poured it. In my opinion, very few breweries make good fruit beers, and this is not one of them. This one reminded me of cough syrup.