Brewsters Bigfoot Blueberry Ale

Brewed by Brewsters Brewing Co. - Alberta
Style: Fruit Beer
Calgary, Canada

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Looks exactly like the Raspberry but with a blueberry! Big blueberry aroma (no surprise). Taste of blueberry is present as well as a decent match of hops. Not bad, but nothing spectacular.

***review from Dec 24, 2007***
It’s the regular Wheat beer served with a bunch of blueberries tossed into the glass. What a waste. It’s like bubble tea in beer form. A totally stupid idea...except from the fact that i know the beer has not been made with some artificial blueberry syrup or something, so that’s cool...and I like blueberries plus they have those antioxydants that one so desperately needs to kill off free radicals.......

Clear copper in color with a small white cap that is lasting a long while, a handful of fresh blueberries was through into the pint by the bartender and are floating and sinking constantly being pushed around by the most carbonation I’ve ever seen in a beer. Aroma is very simple blue berry jam with not a single hint of beer and it’s not overly sweet. Simple tasting as well liquid bread combined with blueberry jam and like the smell it’s not overly sweet like a lot of other fruit beers. I liked this beer it had flavor feel was a touch to thin for me but it’s very drinkable and not over the top sweet but I do wish it had more of a malty taste it was just lacking something.

Clear golden coloured body with a nice white head served with a single blueberry in the glass. Nice blueberry scent with some wheat & yeast also. Medium-bodied; Bitter malt with some filtered wheat and a metallic flavour soon noticeable. Afteraste shows blueberry of course and more bitterness - not sure from what. Overall, a nice start (this was the first of the beers from the brewpub), but way too bitter. I sampled this beer served on draught at the Brewpub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Northwest City Centre location) on 28-December-2008.

Draught at the brewpub, Oliver Square location, as Blackfoot Blueberry Wheat Ale
Pale blond color, for the joy of the girls it’s served with a blueberry in the glass. It doesn’t have any special aroma. The flavor is very simple, yet with a soft mouthfeel. Quite surprisingly in the final I have the impression of feeling the blueberry. No wheat. Simple.

UPDATED: NOV 26, 2011 Ordered as Blackfoot Blueberry Wheat Ale, 5-ounce glass, served with blueberries, savoured on May 24 2008 at the pub; eye: golden, average effervescence, tiny creamy tan head, no lacing; nose: blueberry, light malt, light hops; mouth: malt, blueberry, light orange, light acidity, light caramel, finale in blueberry is well balanced by the malt, average carbonation, medium-thin body, lightly sweet; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Commandée la Blackfoot Blueberry Wheat Ale, verre de 5 onces, servie avec des bleuets, savourée le 24 mai 2008 sur place; oeil : dorée, effervescence moyenne, petite mousse fauve crémeuse, pas de dentelle; nez : bleuet, léger malt, léger houblon; bouche : malt, bleuet, léger orange, légère acidité, léger caramel, finale en bleuet bien équilibrée avec le malt, carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen-mince, légèrement sucrée; en résumé : correct

Great wheat lager. Hint of blueberr.y They throw in a few blueberries too. Great fruity wheat taste. Slim long lasting head. Golden straw colour.

[807-20071102] Tap @ Brewsters (Calgary, AB). Smells like blueberry pie and cream. Slightly hazy, light brown body with a long-lasting foamy white head. Blueberry juice flavour hides the alcohol. Light-medium body. A little soap-like but interesting. (Hoppy Bday SP! ;) )

Draft at the brewpub. Purple tinged yellow with a small white head. Mild fruity blueberry aroma. Light bitterness, very muted blueberry flavours. Average palate. Sort of pleasant but extremely mildly flavoured. 6/3/5-6/3/12

A nice touch is that the bartender throws a couple of fresh blueberries in when it’s poured (and you get to eat the beer-soaked blueberries in the end!) The flavour of blueberries really takes over the light beer taste, but that’s not a bad thing at all.