Dogfish Head Black and Blue

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

On tap at Quivey’s Grove - Pours ruby-copper with a crisp white head. Smells of grapes, raisins, and oak -- it’s sweet and perfume-ey. Taste is slightly sour grapes -- almost like a marraige of a white wine and a belgian golden. It reminded me of Allagash Victor but, you know, good. Finish is a bit tart with some apple flavors. Funny -- I really didn’t taste the blackberries and blueberries at all -- it was all grapes. It’s smooth, syrupy, and medium-full bodied. Tastes dry with not a lot of carbonation. Man...after reading the commercial description, I wonder if I drank the same beer, but I taste what I taste, I guess. Whatever the case, I loved this one.

Aroma is richly fruity and somewhat malty with an undertone of yeast. It pours a clear coppery amber with a fairly thick but not persistent head. Flavor is more like a good apple cider than a beer, and has a decided alcohol bite. There are hints of molasses and raspberry as well. Texture is rather edgy and a little fizzy, and aftertaste is a little tart.

Cloudy reddish hues with pinkish head. Spicy hop aroma and mild fruitiness. First taste is tart and fruity. Sour like a lambic. I’m not sure if I like it right away, but it does have nice warmth like a good wine. Hops are hard to pick out, but the yeast gives it a nice spiciness and dry finish. The fresh fruits are somewhat concealed, although the blackberry seems to be more prominent than the blue. Carbonated texture, full-bodied. This is more wine-like than any other beer I can recall.

Pours murky light reddish burnt sienna with a creamy 2 finger white head that has good retention. Aroma starts of with spice, a little blueberry, lemon drop, lots of berry blossom floral notes, hints of vanilla and almonds, bubblegum, starfruit, grapes, peach tree (with ripe peaches on the tree and a few going south on the ground) and just a hint of oak. Flavor is big on coriander at first, then comes orange peel, wheat, dry leaves, lots of fresh peaches, sweet ginger, vanilla, tart blueberries, lemon, grapefruit, yeasty bread dough and some pepper. Finish is dry wine, tart peaches, bueberries, blackberries, tart cherries and salted melon. Palate is dry and slightly acidic throughout with an active effervescense and a slightly oily feel on the lips. Good stuff, I really liked it, a fun and interesting beer.

Pours pinkish amber with a pink head. Aroma is light blueberry and bready yeast. Flavor is bready, berries and spice. Decent, but not overly impressive.

draft @ redlight redlight. Blackberries on the nose, some raspberry, dark cherries, blueberries, overall sweet fruity aromas. Pours a cloudy purplish pink with a thin white head. Sweet fruit upfront, slighty tart berries, raspberry, blackberry, very spicy, finishes dry with some fruit tartness. Nice beer, but i think prefer the red and white.

Draft at WOB. Pours amber with tinge of blue and thin white head. Aromas of alcohol and fruit. Tastes of blackberries and blueberries with a finish of alcohol.

Amazing beauty of a beer. Pours halfway between orange and purple with a sticky thin white head. Aroma is newly baked bread (the soft inside), and blueberry with a little holiday spice. Flavor is a begian ale with raisins, yeast and sour berries upon sweet berries. Mouthfeel is ridiculous. Big and buttery throughout with an acidity at the end that rounds out this beers representation of all great things belgian-like. This beer peaks my interest in the fruit beer-sour beer genre. Thank You Dogfish. 2009 22 oz.