Tommyknocker Tundrabeary Ale

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Pours a clear, rosy amber with a thin, soapy off white head that has great retention and leaves some decent rings of lacing. Aroma is mostly indistinct, sorta mixed berry, mineral notes and some overripe fruit. Flavor is mostly sweet raspberry, some overripe fruit, herbal hops and stale black tea. Palate is light bodied, slick and syrupy with a light carbonation. I didn’t enjoy this one too much, too sweet and the fruit notes seem overripe through the whole thing.

Bottle pours a clear golden orange color with a slight pinkish hue. Has a minimal off-white head. Aroma has a bit of mustiness to it along with noticeable cranberry. Flavor is very sweet and dominated by more cranberry and raspberry notes. Reminds me more of a cranberry juice than a beer.

Pours very thin. Head disappears within seconds. Blueberries, grapes , raspberries. Even tastes paper thin. If you poured blueberries into water you may get this. Light carbonation. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Poured from bottle. Sour berry and bread in aroma. Ugly rust color, cloudy with barely a head. Flavors of overripe fruit, sour berry and sugar - way too much sugar. I’m unable to detect any hops - there might be some but the sugar is too strong to tell. It’s drinkable, so it is just slightly above awful.

Straw pink color with a white/pink head. Almost wish I didn't pour this one in a glass. Tropical fruit punch aroma. Actually do catch some malt in the front mixed with a light berry flavor. Watery in feel.

UPDATED: JAN 4, 2010
Date: October 21, 1997
Appearance: pink
Aroma: light sweet aroma
Flavor: sweet and slightly fruity flavor, no big whoop

Date: January 03, 2010
Mode: bottle
Source: cellar ticker tasting
Appearance: cloudy orange with a pink hue, wispy beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: musty dingle berry aroma, hint of sweetness
Flavor: lightly sweet berry flavor, touch of fruity tartness

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.1/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *+ /4

Thanks to hopdog. Pours a very lightly hazy pinkish yellow with a very small bubbly white head. Aroma of wheat, light grass, hints of berries and some cereal. Flavor is very tart, but not really in a good way. Kind of a funky tartness, thin, almost like a sour patch kid candy. Cannot really pick out the various berries in this one. I mean you can tell it is getting that tart/sour thing from some type of fruit. But it just doesn’t come across well.

The aroma is tart with fruit and yeast. The appearance is hazy amber with a thin lifeless head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall this is a weird beer.

Pours a hazy peach color with a tan head. Aroma is caramel, fruity, and slightly spicy. Flavor is honey, fruity, and a slightly spicy finish.

12oz bottle. Orange color, touch of pink. Aroma of pale malt, laced with Febreze®. Flavor is light malt and a touch of sweet sugary syrup. Raspberry, blueberry, dingleberry, and don’t forget the snozberries. Gross.