3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap. Pours a cloudy purple-red body with a minimal thin ring of head. Restrained fruity nose, more of a muddled mix of fruit and yeast. The flavor is quite yeasty with some decent natural tasting berries. Not a whole lot of wheat makes it past the fruit. Medium bodied, kinda creamy and full from the heavy yeastiness. Not bad, didn’t taste like extract fruit at all.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
On tap at the pub. No aroma. That was my first thought. Looked nice with a purple tint and small head. The flavor was tart with a hint of blueberry. Slightly thin.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
From draught sample at the brewpub. Not much of any nose to this one and definitely not a blueberry aroma. Light carbonic gaseousness at most, with no hops or sweetness. It’s just kinda there. Dull amber-straw clear, with no head. Thin watery body with medium-heavy carbonation. Starts weakly, with a bit of watery sweetness. Very little blueberry presesnce, though there is a subtle blueberry skin musky quality in there. Just a bit of fruity acidity in the finish, and a mild wheat taste. Almost no aftertaste to this. It’s not bad, just dull.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
I tried this beer on tap at the brewery, in August of 2008. May have been a new recipe, but I am not sure. The beer had a muted aroma, scents of wheat and yeast, maybe some grain, but barely any blueberry discernible. It was a cloudy straw color with a foamy white head that had good retention. The flavor was mostly wheat and grainy hops, and I really could not pick up much of a blueberry flavor at all. It had a fuller body, with decent carbonation and a drying finish.
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