The Bar Towel

Heard this is their next offering. Any thoughts?

Would try. Their bumbleberry or whatever wheat was a decent beer, but kind of light and sweet for me. Maybe the blackberry will be less perfumey and more black-fruity & perhaps more tart. I like that GR never stop trying things.

Sounds good. Their rasberry Pils on cask at their beer club tasting I had last summer was probably the best fruit beer I've ever had, and I usually end up extremely unimpressed with fruit beers.

That Raspberry Pils was a let down for me. Not the amount of berry flavour I'd prefer. I heard they served it for an event with real raspberries mixed in it, as a one-off. I bet that would have been fantastic!

What I REALLY wish is for some OCB to make a raspberry beer that rivals Morte Subite Frambroise, then I wouldn't have to pay $5 for a small bottle of delicious all the way from Belgium!

JesseM wrote:Sounds good. Their rasberry Pils on cask at their beer club tasting I had last summer was probably the best fruit beer I've ever had, and I usually end up extremely unimpressed with fruit beers.

Me too, it's amazing they can make such a round-but-crisp, summery Bavarian style Pilsner that also marries so well with tart-sweet raspberry, but then Grand River are freaks of beer alchemy genius (at least much of the time.)

The wheat base with the blackberry may be a tad stickier and offer less structure, but we wil see!

currnetly availible in bottles at the brewery and on tap here and there

For those interested, this will be on tap at The King Edward Restaurant & Pub during OCB week.

It's currently on tap at the Judge here in Hamilton (at least it was the other day and fruit beers take forever to sell out there). It was quite a bit different from the cask format I had during the Judge's Beer Fest. Will have to try it on bottle.

It's on at Burger Bar in Kensington Mkt and it is very tasty. Definitely one the ladies will appreciate, while also a solid summer beer.

My favorite GRB brew......next to their Kolsh and winter warmer bock.