Tommyknocker Tundrabeary Ale

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

Bottle from Jim Schabby of Tommyknocker brewery. Pours a very interesting amber/reddish color. The nose is sweet with a raspberry and nice malts. Mouthfeel is a tad thin but it’s expected with a fruitbeer. Taste is good with lots of different fruit, it’s very refreshing and would be excellent for your lady who isn’t big on giant ipa’s or pale ales. All and all it’s a pretty enjoyable drink~

It smells nice with a hint of deep fruity. The beer itself is too tart. a not the good appealing tart. not worth it.

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.

Had this beer on 11/13/1998. Color is a unique rose with good carbonation and very thin head. Aroma is a wine like scent. Taste is very beer like and not much fruit or wine taste coming though. It starts with a light bubbley body that goes down with a bubbly feel. The finish is light with a slight hit of berry and a bit of hops coming out. This is a very refreshing and clean finish, making this a very drinkable brew. Overall it’s light, refreshing and the fruit flavor is not over powering like in some flavored brews.

in bottle. pinkish amber color, slim head. smells like a capri juice box that has been fermenting in a minivan next to some spoiled milk... after the first frost of the year. I’m not sure I understand the taste and palate balance. Perhaps the brewer checked to many boxes on the multiple-choice pre-test? The berry combination is interesting, but I think it is yearning to be paired with american wheat flavor rather than the wild yeast/milk flavor. Or perhaps a different finishing hop would have helped. Or more malt? Something isn’t quite balanced here, and the sour isn’t the right match for the lightness of the berries.

Really, I thought this was a pretty decent fruit beer. Not much aroma, the flavor is fruity and light but not clingy or overpowering. Certainly one I could buy for the ladies.

Date: 10/21/1997

pink, light sweet aroma, sweet and slightly fruity flavor, no big whoop

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 2/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.3/5.0
Score: 4
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Bottle poured a clear light reddish amber with a small disapating light pink head. Aromas of bread, berries and a hint of honey. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of cookie, light berry and a hint of citrus with a crisp lightly sweet finish.