Wild Blue

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Fruit Beer
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Sampled at AB’s HQ, on a employee/contractor Sample the brands day. pours deep, kool-aid blue, with a very berry-ish smell. Taste was of carbonated kool-aid. OK on the 1st sip, nasty after that.

UPDATED: SEP 22, 2007 I had the benefit of reading my buddy, Frankenkitty’s, review before drinking this abomination. Therefore, I was NOT decieved! First sip was absolutely horrible. Big artificial blueberry syrup nastiness and over-the-top spritzy carbonation make this difficult to hold down. I ultimately succeeded in keeping this under control, but just barely. I can’t imagine a REAL craft brewer actually producing a beer like this for sale, but apparently A-B sees a market for it....they are, of course, wrong once again...but the 800-hundred-pound gorrilla lives on to once again try to steal market share again! Just AWFUL!!! Just awful! Just awful!

Looks pleasant enough in my Michelob Celebrate snifter, with a purplish/ruby body beneath a fizz-away orchid head. Odd aroma has blueberry pancake syrup and Manischewitz (which I am oddly partial to), on top of some cheesy/stinky feet notes. Sugary sweet Kool-Aid flavor before cheek-pinching berry-tartness. Lightly syruped mouth with an astringent finish. Mild acids settle in the gut. I can see there being a market for something like this, but I’m not part of that demographic. This is a good palate killer.

This was going to rate-out as about a 2.0, but I have been deceived yet AGAIN by "Blue Dawg Brewing" (or is it <a href= http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/green-valley-brewing- Valley Brewing", etc.?) I do NOT like being deceived. Overall "1". Put "A/B" on the label or crown and you’ll get your 2.

<font size=-4>6-pack from Wacky Willy’s... in front of <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/michigan/marsha Horse Brewing Co., Marshall, MI 49068</font>

Had this at the STL Heritage Fest only b/c my girlfriend wanted something fruity. Pour is a strange looking purple with a fizzy white head. Aroma is blueberry and powder sugar. Flavor is artificial blueberry with a ton of sugar. Very sweet and cloying. Not as bad as some have said on here but nothing i would ever buy again if i saw this in the store here.

Easily one of the worst beers I’ve ever had the displeasure of drinking. I think the last time I had this was Summer 2005. The Boston market was saturated with it. It kept showing up at beerfests too, and I think there was some of it at RBSG Montreal ’05.
Anwyays, now that I have time to enter ratings for crappy beers, why not!
Tons of adjunct fermentation and yet still a huge residual sugar content, which helps the head retention on this overly carbonated beer. Light pink-violet tinged beige head sits atop a dark purple-crimson body.
I like how aarossell says it’s "similar to an expensive lambic." Yes, yes, very much so. Blind, I probably couldnt have told the difference between this and Cantillon Blueberry. I also like how he challenges me to "taste and judge for myself. Don’t be a beersnob." Thanks. You’re right, this is pretty good stuff. You definitely won’t contract diabetes after finishing a bottle......

At the 2007 Big Beer, Belgians, & Barleywines Festival in Vail. What a wacky appearance! Purple with a pink head. It smells like BooBerry cereal and tastes like the purple powder part of the Dip-N-Lik candies. I like the idea of taking a crazy batch of chemicals and dumping it into an extra vat of PGA and diluting it out to 8% with club soda. They should mix it in a trash can, just like we did in college. That’d be cool. No, that’d be WILD. Wild blue, that is.

at one point this was my favorite fruit beer. it was one of my first and had some decent flavor. surprising seeing as how it comes from ab.

very fruity beer. distinct blueberry taste to it. i can not take more than 4 sips before im done it is so bad

12 ounce bottle from the Woodmans on Gammon Road in Madison, WI (December 2006), sampled at cellar temperature from a Dieu du Ciel! tulip glass. People have asked me, over the years, since I became a celebrity, what my favorite beer was? What beer I’d like to have for my 2000th beer? 3000th? And beyond....and my mental answer (because I didn’t deem the question worthy of reply) was always "something like my favorite beer, New Glarus Belgian Red" only...different. Now, finally, the brewers at the tiny garage-brewery in St Louis, Missouri, Anheuser and Busch, have made my dreams come true. For my 4000th beer, I ask you to behold: Wild Blue. It pours into my classy, statuesque DDC glass a dark garnet hue with a smallish pink topping....the aroma? oh the first letdown, these hometown boyz from st Lou have left me with something more than a little artificial and soda-like, blueberry-grape fizzy-sugary...what?....now I’ll taste it: wow, if I wanted something other than maple syrup to put on pancakes, I might pick this...but to drink 12 ounces? oh my god, it’s impossible, so syrupy and thick and cloying, fake blueberries and a bit of dark chocolate and soda fizziness... though it does dry out and become cardboardy and stale at the finish....welll. that’s it. Done. 4000. Ummm, next?

Once i tasted this beer, i have never gone back to my old beer. I hope they can come out with an organic version. I am glad they came out with this and i sure hope it stays.