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Dogfish Head Black and Blue

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
5293.36/5.03.35/5.0Special10%92.4Flute
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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 CaptainCougar (5402), Rockville, Maryland, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Aug 7, 2007  
Pours a transparent dark mahogany ruby with a fairly full, wispy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of sweet fructose and berries with a touch of caramel malt and grapefruity hops. Body starts with good viscosity and fresh, semi-sweet and tart berry flavor. Has some nice bready Belgian yeasty notes toward a sweet, fruity finish that hides the alcohol quite well. A good fruit beer.


 BrewDad (2366), Olympia, Washington, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/510/20
Aug 6, 2007    Updated: Aug 8, 2007
Intresting flavor. Thought this was going to be an over the top fruit beer but I was actually dissapointed with the flavor. It felt weak and unflavorful and just bland. Nothing special and the beer was just flat in the overall taste. Not bad but it was a lighter beer than 10%.


 pantani (1896), Salinas, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 6, 2007  
Color is a light brown hue, with a thin white head. Nice blueberry and blacberry hints in the aroma, light caramel. Taste is blueberry, caramel, and some alcohol. Overall pretty easy drinking for a 10% brew.


 RAYBOY01 (1828), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 5, 2007  
I did not find this beer particularly heavily fruity...the berries stay in the background pretty well...so does the alcohol...It was sweet but not cloyingly so. Overall a decent summer refresher.


 ChristianScheffel (4481), Odense, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 3, 2007  
Copper red with a small, but lasting white head. Aroma completely dominated by berries. Sweet berry flavour, all in all a very one-dimensional beer.


 brigg (216), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/513/20
Aug 1, 2007  
(bottle) Clear orange-amber body with very little off-white head. Sweet, fruity berry aroma. Flavor is very sweet. The blueberries and blackberries are there, maybe some apple. Strong alcohol flavor, as well, particularly in the finish, but it remains fairly smooth. Medium to full bodied.


 Magjayran (1379), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 31, 2007  
Amber colored with beer with a very small slight white head. A tiny bit of raspberry in the aroma and not much else. This beer is basically just a big malt forward beer with a bit of berry in the background. Easy to drink and buzz inducing.


 Flyer (118), Hartland, Wisconsin, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/513/20
Jul 28, 2007  
Pours a translucent purplish red with a blackberry aroma. The flavor is "all fruit all the time," and yet the fruit isn’t too intense -- it’s nicely crisp, and the alcohol makes its presence felt. It has a sour, bitter-crisp finish. For me fruit beers are a not a staple, but a great change of pace, and in that context this is recommended.



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