Blue Paw
Sea Dog Brewing Co. in Bangor, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyFruit Beer Regular
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Score
5.62
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Our unique contribution to the fruit ale category features the nutty quench of wheat ale combined with the delightful aromatics and subtle fruit flavor contributed by Maine wild blueberries
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6/10
Tried
on 08 Nov 2015
at 17:43
10/10
Tried
on 08 Aug 2015
at 15:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly hazy golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of blueberry, wheat, cracker, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of blueberries, pale malt, and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of blueberry, wheat, cracker, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light earthy/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of blueberry, wheat, cracker, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Good robustness and balance of blueberries, pale malt, and earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Not too dry after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium bodied; with a very smooth, crisp, and slightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.7%. Overall this is a nice fruit wheat. All around good balance and robustness of blueberries, pale malt, and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. I would have preferred to see some wheat yeast influence in the flavors for a bit more complexity; but it was still a nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2015
at 20:54
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Poured from bottle clear gold with off white head. Aromas of fresh blueberry and pale malt sweetness. Taste is wheat blueberry and cracker.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2015
at 16:39
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle 355ml as "Kennebunkport Blueberry Wheat Ale " @ Hotel Room, Best Western Plus, Waterbury, VT
Pours clear deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of blueberry yougurt. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with a long blueberry and slightly sour finish. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
Pours clear deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of blueberry yougurt. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with a long blueberry and slightly sour finish. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2015
at 20:14
2.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 1.5
Bottle. As Kennebunkport Blueberry Wheat Ale. A lot of blueberry escapes the bottle immediately after popping the cork. It’s an almost clear one, golden in color and with a small, off-white head. The aroma is rather bad I think, it almost feels like puke someone tried to hide by spraying it with perfume. It’s much the same in the flavor, but slightly better and more blueberryish. Medium body, quite dry and with a soft carbonation. Puke-like, perfumed blueberry finish. Sure a beer I couldn’t finish. 150610
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2015
at 20:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is blueberry. Sweet and slight citric. Medium dry blueberry aroma from back of the nose. Lingering blueberry dense finish.
Earlier Rating: 11/30/2009 Total Score: 3.1
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark and golden clear orange with a small white head. Aroma is farty blueberry aroma. Dry wheaty and blueberry flavoured. No real sweetness. Smooth mouthfeel, wheat and carbonation. Dry and fruity flavoured finish.
Earlier Rating: 11/30/2009 Total Score: 3.1
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark and golden clear orange with a small white head. Aroma is farty blueberry aroma. Dry wheaty and blueberry flavoured. No real sweetness. Smooth mouthfeel, wheat and carbonation. Dry and fruity flavoured finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Dec 2014
at 00:49
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle - Sweet blueberry jam and liquor. Clear orange gold with a decent white head. Blueberries and some syrup. Pretty artificial and sweet, surely nice for those who don’t like beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2014
at 19:00
Fy fan
Tried
on 18 Oct 2014
at 22:18
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a decent looking orange to brown color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a half a minute leaving some light lacing sticking to the sides of the glass.
The smell definitely had the blueberry up front with a slight heavy grainy/wheat sort of thing going on.
The taste was mainly the same thing taking that wheat/graininess to give a slight kick at the end.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat subdued as the wheat took over.
Overall, Sea Dog/Shipyard did what they wanted to do. It’s everything they said it would be, however did I like it? Well, to me, the wheat tends to sit just a tad too heavy, I’d rather have Bar Harbor’s Blueberry Ale.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a decent looking orange to brown color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a half a minute leaving some light lacing sticking to the sides of the glass.
The smell definitely had the blueberry up front with a slight heavy grainy/wheat sort of thing going on.
The taste was mainly the same thing taking that wheat/graininess to give a slight kick at the end.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat subdued as the wheat took over.
Overall, Sea Dog/Shipyard did what they wanted to do. It’s everything they said it would be, however did I like it? Well, to me, the wheat tends to sit just a tad too heavy, I’d rather have Bar Harbor’s Blueberry Ale.
Tried
on 12 Jul 2014
at 21:57