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RATINGS: 390   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.03   EST. CALORIES: 144   ABV: 4.8%
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Sweetwater Blue is a unique lighter style ale enhanced with a hint of fresh blueberry. When you drink this beer take a good whiff first and you’ll smell the blueberry influence, but on the taste it’s extremely subtle and the finish is extra clean. Ain’t no fruit beer, but it is our breakfast beer, usually folks that are looking to quench their thirst or for those that are new to the “good beer” lifestyle; this is their choice. This brew and the ESB were the original two to go through the tanks at SweetWater in February 1997.

Medals: Bronze medal winner at the 1998 World Beer Cup, Fruit Beer category; Always the funky favorite at any outdoor beer festival

Malt: 2 Row, Wheat

Hops: Centenial


3.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Hinez57 (160) - Clinton, USA - OCT 17, 2008
Sweet blueberry aroma with a little bit of earthen notes from the malt. Crystal clear clean beer with little head. Surprisingly refreshing flavor of light malt & hop background with sweetish blueberry dominating. Decent refreshing mouthfeel. Easily the best fruit beer I’ve had, actually the first fruit beer I’ve ever been able to say I enjoyed!

3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
rustbucket0873 (213) - Krikville, New York, USA - FEB 10, 2012
Pours golden to light amber,The aroma is strong in wheat with little malt. The taste is smooth blueberry front to back with some small wheat taste. No hop flavor or bitterness to think of. Overall this is good but not great. I would recommend to people that like fruit flavored beers or blueberry.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
blipp (3600) - Newark, New Jersey, USA - JAN 15, 2012
Bottle. Pours gold with a white head. Blueberry muffin aroma. The flavor has blueberry and sugar on a bready malty base. Like blueberry mini-muffins. Pretty good.

3.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
dfinney23 (377) - Houston, Texas, USA - JAN 15, 2012
Aroma isn’t particularly beer-like but it definitely smells delicious, assuming you like blueberry muffins. Blueberry flavor is surprisingly light, given the aroma, which is no bad thing. Not at all syrupy or cloying.

2.2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
LetsGoState (310) - Pennsylvania, USA - DEC 18, 2011
Appearance is medium white head with a light amber color. Aroma is a sweet fruit. Taste is almost a cheap beer malt, but also sweet fruit - blueberry and apricot. Overall not the best.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
beerme31 (160) - Apex, North Carolina, USA - NOV 3, 2011
Bottle. Pours clear golden thin white head. Fruity blueberry aroma, sweet bread. Very mild sweetness, simple refreshing flavor. Light body, lively carbonation, mild blueberry in the finish. Easy to drink, fruit beer that can actually be a decent session beer.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
changeup45 (1314) - Mount Dora, Florida, USA - OCT 27, 2011
On tap. Golden colored and served with a decent lasting frothy head. While this is certainly wheaty and consisting of blueberries, it also comes across as rather malty. Slick and buttery going down with the addition of grain and toffee. Little to no hop presence. Meh. Decent at best.

3.3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
Ernesto987 (1257) - Connecticut, USA - SEP 26, 2011
Blueberry muffin beer. Decent blueberry aroma. No hops really, I would evolved to taste those centinneal hops. Oh well, this is the beer you bust out when you wanna bang a 19 year old.

2.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 6/20
scotchzi (285) - Florida, USA - SEP 9, 2011
Pour is light gold not much head smells like a blueberry poplar taste like a blueberry muffin. If you like blueberry drink this.


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