Blueberry Blonde Ale
F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac) in Utica, New York, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.07
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Saranac Blueberry Blonde Ale is a traditional blonde with a kick of juicy blueberry. You’ll notice a light golden haze from wheat malt and oats and a low hop bitterness, which really shows off the fruit. With a medium-light body and fresh blueberry flavor, we’re sure we’ve captured refreshment in a bottle! Cheers!
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8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Bottle from Price Chopper. Clear yellow, medium body. Once it warms up enough, the beer has a faint blueberry finish after a very ordinary malt taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2021
at 00:20
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2020
at 23:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Almost perfectly golden coloured body with a good, two centimetre tall pure white head. Aroma of very nice and pure blueberries, some light grassy and herbal malts with very little else, aside from nice sweetness, perhaps a bit too much. Light-bodied; Grassy and herbal flavours at first with a big dose of hay, some lighter grain and yeast flavours with a dose of blueberries, lemons and light fruit right behind. Aftertaste shows some grass, herbs, dry malt, light grain and a dose of the blueberries that is pretty hard to miss. Overall, a very subdued and grassy, herbal beer with very light malt, a good deal of blueberries, but the quality that makes it the most effective is how easy it goes down - which is almost exactly what you'd want from the style. I'm usually a proponent to smashing Saranac beers on how bad they are, but this is almost exactly what it 'should' be - not bad at all, if you are buying it by what it says on the label or what you'd expect if someone told you the name of it. That said, it wasn't great or amazing, but you wouldn't expect that at all. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 22-September-2018 for US$1,39 sampled in my hotel room here in Princeton, New Jersey on 20-October-2018.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2018
at 14:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at The Deuce at Pinehurst #2, NC. Clear gold color with a small white head and good retention. Flavor of sweet blueberries, but not overly sweet. Slightly creamy mouthfeel. Good balance.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2018
at 03:11
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft at Moo & Brew. Clearish yellow color white head. Blueberry and straw aroma, lightly peppery blueberry taste.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2018
at 12:19
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle from Tops. Clear golden coloured. Bit malty, lemonade, maybe bit of berry juice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2018
at 15:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Total Wine, South Richmond. Pours clear gold with a small soft white head. Aroma is blueberry, lager. Flavor is blueberry - not overly sweet but not bitter, grass, grain. Pretty straightforward. Drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2017
at 17:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Reviewed from notes. Consumed July 2, 2012.
The appearance has a hazy golden colored body that gave a white, frothy, foamy head that appeared for a good thirty seconds. It left barely any lacing and some fast rising bubbles were seen.
The smell had blueberries in front with some wheat in the back.
The taste has blueberries up front; and in the back there are some bready malts that came out a bit with some light lemon.
On the palate, it sits about a medium, shows no watery quality but leaves a good refreshingness all around. It has a nice sessionable quality to it.
Overall, the blueberry comes out pretty strong, but hey I believe thats what Saranac wanted. Its still a pretty good beer that I would have it again.
The appearance has a hazy golden colored body that gave a white, frothy, foamy head that appeared for a good thirty seconds. It left barely any lacing and some fast rising bubbles were seen.
The smell had blueberries in front with some wheat in the back.
The taste has blueberries up front; and in the back there are some bready malts that came out a bit with some light lemon.
On the palate, it sits about a medium, shows no watery quality but leaves a good refreshingness all around. It has a nice sessionable quality to it.
Overall, the blueberry comes out pretty strong, but hey I believe thats what Saranac wanted. Its still a pretty good beer that I would have it again.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2014
at 13:32
5/10
Tried
on 18 Jul 2013
at 20:58