Dogfish Head Black and Blue

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milton, Delaware USA

Hazy amber with a creamy white head. Aroma of blueberries, malt, alcohol and mild noble hops. Taste of mild blueberries and blackberries, bready malt and light hops. Smooth body has some tartness to it and finishes up with some alcohol warmth.

strange to say the least. stinks like all different berries before you can even pour it. pours a red to brownish hue with a tiny bubbly head that dissolves in about or minute or two. tastes like a weak belgian ale with strong hints of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and maybe some oranges. overly fruity but if drank out of snifter for a sip or two, quite intriguing. i can say i have had this one now so no need for me to ever try this weirdo beer again.

Poured like a lightly carbonated gls of blood orange juice. Nose was heavy on berries. Tastes like someone made a beer form the berries on the sole of a field workers shoe. It’s like welch’s for grown ups. Glad someone else brought the bottle because i would have been tempted to defecate in the bottle and send it back to DFH. OK, maybe its not that bad, but it should at least have a picture of three highschool girls drinking it while at camp on the front of the botte.

On tap at Cole’s Dogfish tasting: Light magenta color . Vinous, fruity berry filled aroma. Lightly tart with berry flavors, cherry pits and some metallic aftertaste. Fizzy and dry with some heat on the end...tastes every bit of 10% abv.

Tap @ Cole’s Dogfish Fest. Reddish orange body, no head. If there was a hairspray made with fruit & malt it would smell just like this. Flavor is berries, a juice character that reminds me of drinking Juicy Juice in 3rd grade. That Juicy Juice continues through to the finish. Blech.

Not a big fruit beer fan, but I decided to give it a try as I have been curious about berries in beer (except raspberries which are relatively common). Poured a very dark golder brown with a moderate head that had some staying power. The aroma definitely had the berry smell, but still smelled like a beer. I think in a lot of fruit beers the fruit distracts from the beer aroma and flavor for that matter. The taste was that of a strong ale. There is a little berry flavor on the front end of the taste, and through the taste the berry flavors take over are are most noticeable on the finish. The mouthfeel was as expected for a high alcohol beer brewed on fruit, and for a fruit beer I found it highly drinkable. Overall I am still not a fan of fruit beers, but this was pretty good.

I thought this beer was orgasmic. It was a nice silky malt base with a lovely fruit accent. Flavors of blueberry and blackberry are mixed in perfectly with a soft malt undertone. This beer does not however drift into the common pitfall of fruit beers "cough, Weyerbacher, cough" of becoming sickly sweet and syrupy like a bad icewine. The palate is crisp, yet lingering and not something to cling to your teeth. This beer is better than the Dogfish Head Red and White in my opinion.

POurs a reddish brown. Nose is sour grapes, unripe blueberries, sour berries, butter fruit skin. Flavor is bitter fruit, unripe blurberries, young berries, sweet berries, mild malt and yeast.