Samuel Adams Blackberry Witbier

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Bottle. Sour milk and blackberry aroma. Hazy honey gold with a large off-white head. Tart blackberry, wheat malt, and light bitter herbal flavor. Light body, moderate carbonation. The hop character totally screwed this one up for me.

12 fl oz / 355mL bottle into a Blue Moon glass. Served cold. Aroma: Slightly artificial smelling blackberry jam. Maybe even a little grape jelly. No real spices. Smells sweet. A little sour yeast. Appearance: Hazy dark yellow/orange. White head that dissipates moderately quickly. Taste: Mild medicine-y blackberry flavor. Quickly moves to mild wheat. Flavors are really small. Palate: Light, maybe even a little watery. Short finish. Flavors are there, then gone. Mreh. Overall: Kind of let down. Sam Adams Cherry Wheat was bursting with flavor and aroma. This was kind of just.....meh. Not bad at all. The flavors are too quiet and the body is too thin for me.

Bottle. This is a fruity wit that is too heavy on the berries. Not a beer I would try again.

The aroma is all blackberry. It is powerful and obliterates everything else. The brew is a very pale yellow, appearing quite like a kolsch. The head is white and fades to a bubbly film on top. The taste of blackberry is nearly canceled out by the wheat element, though I have to say that upon first impression, my taste buds swore there was a soap quality. That unexpected and unwanted flavor slowly fades upon consequent sips. I was left wishing that there was either more blackberry or more wheat to the flavor. The palate is initially smacked with carbonation, though an oily filminess takes over and lingers upon the tongue in a rather annoying manner. There is a sourness to the aftertaste that I did not appreciate. I must say that considering the ingredients, the palate could have been abused much more harshly, but was not. I sort of liked this, but it is simply too balanced and does not know what it wants to be.

Small creamy head over a hazy, deep amber colored beer. Sweet fruity aroma of blackberries and citrus. Taste is tart, crisp berries and a creamy, sweet malt finish. Dry and refreshing with a medium body and a nice level of carbonation. The thing is, I don’t like fruit beers but this one is actually good. Sign me up for another six pack.

12oz bottle, from Party Source. Best by notch is July 2013. Mostly clear yellow-orange color. Thin white head. Few reaches of lace. Medium body, kind of pronounced carbonation. Smooth and crisp, though. Citrus and blackberry is a pretty nice flavor. Nice, refreshing, and zesty, and still with a good bitterness, too. Surprisingly tasty and refreshing fruit beer

I went to a local party store initially to pick up another 6-pack of Samuel Adams Summer Ale, but I walked out with Blackberry Witbier. First thing I noticed when I got home was that this beer is unfiltered. Being fairly new to beer, I initially thought it was contaminated (derp). I cracked a bottle open, took a smell, and then a quick swig. It has a pleasant blackberry aroma -- as you’d expect -- as well as a slight taste of them as well. I’ve seen some of the reviewers comment that it’s overpowering and that the beer is much too sweet, but I don’t get that at all. As a matter of fact, less than half a bottle in my belly, and I couldn’t really even taste the blackberry anymore. The mouth feel of this beer is incredible due to it being unfiltered. If you take a sip and leave it on your tongue at all, it starts to foam up. While Samuel Adams Blackberry Witbier smells great and has a really nice mouth feel, it’s really just an average beer ... especially after a few sips when the blackberry seems to disappear. Personally, I could never drink more than one bottle in a session ... Good, but not spectacular.

12 oz bottle. Aroma is berries, berries, and Splenda! Taste is not pleasant. Sweet berry, artificial. Hard to get down! Not a fan

Slightly cloudy gold with a craggy white head. Aroma is slightly wheaty, weakly blackberry....ish. Taste is slightly tart, watery blackberry juice. Very dissapointing....bland.

Smells a little like blackberry. Carbonation slightly below average. Pours clear gold with ok head and some lacing. Watery consistency. Taste a little sour, but mostly watery. Bottle.