Mayday Hills Blue
Bridge Road Brewers in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber with a small white head. Aroma of crackery spiced dough, berries that I might have picked as a blackcurrant-led mix had I not known, wine gums. Light bodied. More obviously blueberry when you take a sip - it has that strange deadening woody tartness that blueberries have. The berries work really well with the slight caramelised bread crust and boiled oranges until a little burst of spice and oak at the end.
LesArgen (1205) reviewed Mayday Hills Blue from Bridge Road Brewers 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
I was expecting a sour ale but instead got a really, really delicious blueberry-flavoured pale ale. The dominant aroma is oak, so that at first it’s reminiscent of a well oaked chardonnay. Then you get the blueberries with lots of bread that’s reminiscent of a freshly baked blueberry muffin. Finally there’s lots of funky yeast to finish off. The blueberry and yeast are all prominent in the mouth, together with lemon, apple and funky yeast flavours. There’s not a lot of malt to speak of beyond that breadiness in the aroma, but it’s not missed.