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Dogfish Head Black and Blue

Dogfish Head Black and Blue - Fruit Beer

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 Percentile 
79
overall
Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer

Milton, Delaware USA

bottled
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on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5263.36/5.03.35/5.0Special10%92.4Flute
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Commercial Description:
Black & Blue is golden Belgian Ale made with over 300 lbs of fresh blackberries and blueberries. With a deep purple full body and a long-lasting lacy pink head, this ale is both attractive and delicious! It is tart and fruity, like our brewers! The subtle bitterness of Hallertau and Saaz hops shines through the fruit forward flavor and sets the palate aglow. (30 IBUs). This tasty brew has smooth but noticeable alcohol warmth. Belgian yeast gives this brew a characteristically dry spicy finish. The beautiful interplay of fruit, spice, and alcohol is complimented by a soft malt profile, and a high level of carbonation.
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 drowland (1360), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 14, 2009  
My brother brought a bottle down for our other brother’s wedding. Tastes like a yummy belgian with hints of fruit.


 GarrettB (494), Seattle, Washington, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 9, 2009  
The Black & Blue has, by the good graces of DFH’s marketing team, been paired with the Red & White. Their names follow a similar style, both employ generous amounts of fruit, and both have been given strange labels of painted continental nobility. In my mind, both fail to live up to expectations. I am very often suckered into buying a beer on the premise that it has some sort of beloved ingredient, usually a fruit. DFH’s impressively boasts of blackberries and blueberries in their Black & Blue, at which I was immediately won over. But it fails to offer the kind of raw fruit-in-beer flavor that turns out so well in the tried-and-true Belgium lambics (though I concede that this is NOT a lambic). The aroms comes off funky, like the smell of shriveled and old lemons and peaches. It’s sour, and features moderate notes of blackberry. But I don’t catch any blueberries. I also would have expected the blackberry aroma to dominate everthing else. The flavor suffers the same flaws - the blackberry flavor is slightly sour and has a shallow pungency, and further endures the off-taste of chemicals and the flavor of fruit well past it’s ripe prime. It’s not so bad that I’m making faces, but it’s not good by any means. There are shadows of what I was hoping for, of blackberries paired against a nice, deep maltiness. But these are shadows, and fare poorly against this agitating flavor of neglected fruits.


 buzzoven (333), Japan
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/104/512/20
Jul 31, 2009  
Smell of blueberry raspberry grapefruit bubblegum. Taste is tart, mild, crisp, very dry. Has a champagne/red wine feel to it. All my friends thought this was one of the best beers in the world. I liked it, but couldn’t really see myself ordering this again. The flavours were interesting but just didn’t deliver in the way that kept me enthralled.


 scoth (266), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 25, 2009  
Pours hazy orange-amber, with a medium off-white head, very fine lasting lacing. Toasty, sweet aroma with some subdued fruity, grassy and citrus notes. Medium body, velvety, sharp and tart. Mostly caramel and biscuit flavor, with a bit of blackberry, citrus and spice, very sour and tangy, with a mildly earthy, citrus finish. It’s like a tart and fruity golden ale.


nate4g63 (3), Oil City, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Dogfish Head Black and Blue does not count
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Jul 22, 2009  
my buddy got this on one of our trips to Vintage Estate Wine and Beer in Ohio. Great brew. I’m not crazy into fruit beers but this was amazing. Still looks and feels like beer but the fruit flavoring was perfect. Try it once, its worth it.


 dmac (1420), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Jul 17, 2009  
750 ml bottle. Poured a clear pinkish/amber with an average size bubbly pinkish/white head. Aroma was undistinct berries, slight cherry, cereal grains, slight medicinal notes. Medium bodied with strong carbonation and a dry warm finish. Flavor is a step down from the aroma and tastes like eating a grahm cracker while doing a shot of cough syrup. Although inventive and imaginative this beer is a fail, especially for the money.


 vtafro (452), , New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/104/512/20
Jul 15, 2009  
Bottle. Ruby pour. Flavor is of tart blackberry and taste almost like half beer and half wine. Not a big fan. Although 10% is not even noticed and is easier to dirnk than a wine.


 DeadGirl (192), West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/54/102/512/20
Jul 15, 2009    Updated: Nov 9, 2009
On tap at RnH (NYC): Holy crap that’s sour! Blackberries for sure, but it overwhelms any traces of blueberry. Not fairly balanced at all- a little similar tasting to iced tea, but not as refreshing... It does the job for a fruit beer, but I’m sticking to Krieks.



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