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The Bruery Black Orchard Belgian Style Ale

Source: FoodandWineBlog.com

We saw this at Whole Foods and it immediately appealed—a California-made, unfiltered, bottle-conditioned beer in a wine-sized bottle. And the price was about $7. Mmmm, this will work for us…. Black wheat ale—this should be good.

But then it really wasn’t. Sipping it we had memories of a lame nut brown ale we had home-brewed eons ago—lots of malt, and not much else. Where was the nuance? Booooring,

According to The Bruery’s website, Black Orchard has won some awards. Huh, maybe we got a bad bottle. (Rating **3/4)

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