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Grand River Blackberry Wheat

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Grand River Blackberry Wheat

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Heard this is their next offering. Any thoughts?

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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.
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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.

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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!

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

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

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Post by Cale »

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.

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