Spinnakers Currant Noir

Brewed by Spinnakers Brewpub
Style: Fruit Beer
Victoria, Canada

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. A deep red beer with a slight haze under a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of black currant. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of black currant, leading to a dry and slightly woody finish.

Bottled@SBWF2007. Deep red colour, not much head,. Aroma is black currant, blueberries some hops and slight glueish notes. Flavour is black currant, dark berries and quite bitter fruity. Pleasant.

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Purple with small pink head. Citric aroma with cranebrries and, of course, black currant. Dryish and medium bodied The berries are very evident, but they never seem out of place. Lightly yeast and quite refreshing. No bitterness. Is this stuff really over 8%??

Bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007-09-22, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Solid, well brewed, good delicate caramel flavor, subtle red berries fruitness.

Bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007-09-20, 4-3-4-2-7=20
Cloudy dark brown color with purple shades. The aroma has a light sourness, more the flavor. Ok, there is some fruit, but there is nothing else interesting here. The aroma has also a light vegetable touch. Weird.

Bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival ... Deep red ... slight (not unpleasent) sour fruit nose ... tart sharp fruit not quite sour ... blackcurrent exploded in mouth a great beer on that alone, but its more than just the fruit explosion.

Deep purplish burgundy colour. No head. Aroma of black currant, peppery alcohol, pears, candyish malt. Fruit-first, moving towards a muscular alcohol finish. The malts - while clearly candyish - remain in the background and gracefully disassociated from the currant. Nicely balanced.

Bottled@SBWF 2007
Ruby red color, no head. Very fruity blackberry aroma. A bit sourish, fruity-berrish flavor. Nice sourish aftertaste. Blackcurrant traces. Good fruit beer.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2007) Bottle. Amber/purple color, no head. Fruity aroma, black currant, other berries, malty. Malty berry flavor, black currant, some spicy notes, sourish and withna nice body. Different and very interesting beer.

One-year aged bottle, courtesy of Rob the brewer. One bottle tehre then one put into our luggage as well. An above average fruit beer with Belgian abbey yeast messaging the mouth and soft parts. A good nose of fruit. Well malted, the fruit is right there. Unique.

Honey pear light cuurrant. Reddish poyr no head. Reddisg poue ni gwas. Curranta honey poear. Lifht yeast ns pear finish. Meh (jon 2009).