Atlantic Bar Harbor Blueberry Ale

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

12 oz bottle from Princeton’s. Dark golden pour with a good foamy white head that sticks around for a bit and gives good lacing. Aroma is a very faint blueberry muffin type of smell. Flavor has a slight blueberry note to it (obviously) but overall the flavor profile isn’t too big. Finish is a nice and smooth and leaves (big surprise) a blueberry tinge on your tongue. Not really my style of beer but I think they did a good job with it....

Bottle - Pours a darkish amber in color with a bright whit head that immediately fades. The aroma of blueberries is present as soon as the beer is poured, but fades along with the head. Once settled, the small of blueberries is gone. Flavor is mildly of blueberry, but not as distinct as that initial aroma. Tart, citrus character that is very dry. Finish is clean, without any lingering blueberry.

Bottle. Pours a hazy brown amber with a large creamy beige head. Large blueberry and a touch of vanilla. Medium bodied, lightly sweet and a touch of malt and wheat. Weird aspartame sweetness on the finish.

nice, crispy blueberry aroma, but the flavor is just a cool crisp malt. Slight sting of blueberry, but it may just be a little hop presence that I’m mistaking for blueberries. Makes it feel a tiny bit sour. Not that exciting. Bottle from Total Wine and More, Naples, Florida.

Bottle. Pours amber-brown with a large head. Aroma is of malts and blueberry. Flavor is slightly blueberry with some malt present as well. The blueberry is not overpowering, but blends in nicely to make a pretty good beer.

Impressive three-finger head that lasts a long time and recedes in a rocky fashion. Dark amber color and cloudy (with some yeast clusters floating around). Strong sour blueberry aroma. Smells like blueberry pie but made without any sugar. Very sour taste. Were the blueberries unripened? Not very complex. The aftertaste is shortlived. The mouthfeel is okay. Overall, this is a clear miss.

Serving: 12 oz. bottle. Appearance: Deep copper color with a small, white head. Spotty lacing left behind. Aroma: Light blueberry nose with touches of malt. Flavor: Slight metallic note, honey, blueberry, and light malt notes. The blueberry is very well done. Subtle and not overpowering like some others. Palate: Medium-high carbonation with a light mouthfeel and and a medium, blueberry finish. Overall: It can be hard to make a good fruit beer that maintains a fruit flavor without being overpowering. Atlantic Brewing has done it well with this one.

This is one of those good fruit beers which makes me keep trying the style (even though there are a lot of cough-syrupy dogs out there). A very nice fruit ale - a balanced aroma of blueberries, with a natural, clear tartness and flavor but not overly sweet. Nice to have a fruit flavor in something with body - neither a spicy winter beer nor a light summer wheat.