Pitched Blue
Empyrean Brewing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.61
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Single can from HyVee, Carroll, IA. Pour looks a lot like a Coca-Cola, with a big head of foam. No hint of the blue fruit inside. But a nice berry smell with some beer malt matching up.Taste has an interesting fruit lead, then malts right behind. There's a kind of a sweetness like lipstick that's a bit of a distraction. Pretty decent, but I think this berry combo would work better against a stout.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Pitched Blue from Empyrean Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Binny's, Chicago.
A: hazy black, small, frothy, beige head.
A: cassis, blueberry jam on toast, fruit cake, nutmeg.
T: sweet-sour blueberry, toasty maltiness, burnt spices.
F: herbal hops, dark fruits, bitter berry skins and spicy-medicinal notes.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Not the most complex of brews but stylewise this is interesting for sure.
superspak (10160) reviewed Pitched Blue from Empyrean Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 10/22/2018. Pours lightly hazy dark reddish/purple/brown color with a 2 finger fairly dense and rocky light khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Dense foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of juicy/lightly tart/tangy blueberries, blackberries, fruit skin, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, toasted biscuit, light roast, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of berries, dark/bready/light roast malts, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big juicy/lightly tart/tangy blueberries, blackberries, fruit skin, caramel, brown sugar, toffee. vanilla, toasted biscuit, light roast, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light herbal/floral/grassy bitterness and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of juicy blueberries, blackberries, fruit skin, caramel, brown sugar, toffee. vanilla, toasted biscuit, light roast, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of berries, dark/bready/light roast malts, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness and tart/tangy fruit balance, with no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from carbonation and lingering bitter/tartness. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/acidic/tangy mouthfeel that is good. A bit too foamy carbonation. Zero warming alcohol for 5.5%. Overall this is a very good dark fruit beer. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of berries, dark/bready/light roast malts, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, despite the over carbonated/drying finish. Nice balance of jammy berries, nicely rich malts, and mild earthy hops against sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example. Lower carbonation would have been better.
Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Pitched Blue from Empyrean Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draft/Fest. A- Dank, slightly fruity. A- Brown color, cloudy liquid, beige head. T- Slightly fruity, bland. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bland finish. O- Maybe I was drunk but this was nothing like I expected it to be. Not much aroma or flavor, definitely not that fruity, and quite bland. This one left me scratching my head.