Fancy Pants Blueberry Ale

Formerly brewed at Fancy Pants Brewing Co. (formerly Neversink Brewing)
Style: Fruit Beer
Reading, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Flute

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Smells like blueberry pie-sweet & spicy. Dark amber clear w/off-white sm foamy lacing head. Med-hi fizz in med watery body. Taste is pretty good. Lightly hopped ale w/nice blueberry elements. Light spicy bitter-like pie. Spicy finish and weak berry bitter after. One of the better blueberry ales.

UPDATED: SEP 24, 2003 Smelled exactly like blueberries. The draft version had a short lasting head and left almost no lacing on the glass. There was a weak berry taste, not nearly what you'd expect from the smell. Rerate: After having this a couple more times, it's still good, the taste gets to be a little too much. Not nearly as bad as the Bar Harbor Blueberry I had though. I couldn't even finish a whole pint of that. This I can have at least two before I start to think about whether or not I want another blueberry or something else.

Golden yellow with a slightly cloudy hue. Light head that evaporates quickly. Mild carbonation. Surprising delicious. Bluebery flavor is very present but not overbearing. A very unique beer that gets better as you drink the glass! I enjoyed this beer. Fruit but well balanced. Light, crisp, abundantly vibrant. Fresh and unique. I wanted another after I finished the first.

It just isn’t my style and all though it was drinkable I don’t think I will ever have it again.

The blueberry flavor went well with the hop variety used... very refreshing beer

I should preface this review by saying I am a big fan of ’fruit beers’. Biggest problem I had with this beer was the lingering aftertaste. The blueberry aroma was a great start, but the finish coated my tongue with blueberry. I think they use whole blueberries and not extract. I believe the acidity of the blueberries was the source of the lingering aftertaste.

A nice beer. Blueberry in the nose but not so much in the flavor. I’m assuming extract was used as that’s one of its characteristics. Otherwise pretty decent but I thought it was a little heavy on the bitterness for what it was. Id rather have an I.P.O.!

A lot of blueberry in the nose & aroma, cloudy light copper in color, kept a decent head, not too much berry flavor in the beer that would make it overpowering but just enough to make it a very smooth blueberry brew