Maine Coast Wild Blueberry Ale
Jack Russell's Steakhouse & Brewery in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.36
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
I am so far behind, on tap at the source this summer on a motorcycle trip.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Blueberry aroma. Blueberry and light malt flavor. Medium bodied. Blueberry and light malt linger. Decent blueberry, but not enough to save it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16 oz. draft. Aroma is mild blueberry with soft malt. Flavor does show a good amount of blueberry with a golden ale base brew. A lighter body to have with a steak dinner. No flaws just simple.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Reviewed from old notes.
On tap at the brewpub.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a semi-dark red to brown color with a bar pour’s kind of head that died off quickly.
The smell started off with the blueberries sweet and tight up front. A decent grainy malt base ended up coming across.
The taste combined the blueberries and the graininess which tasted better than it smelled -more or less like wheat to me.
On the palate, this sat about a light to medium with a decent sessionable quality about it. Carbonation seemed fairly subdued but probably due to the want of having the wheat give it a little kick, which actually Dorset really happen.
Overall, the taste was there but something in the smell seemed a bit off in the grainy/what was supposed to be wheat. For the most part, not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Ok, so this one finally works, but I think it is only coincidence. On draught at the brewery, 8/14/2005. The little, bittersweet wild blueberries are fresh and real in here and well-prepared for the corky, rusty yeast assault. Good crisp mouthfeel, low, pleasing carbonation, kind of feels like an Abbey Trippel, dry and perfumey. Light grainy malt and tons of tartness/dryness from the yeast. A touch of sweet honey malt on the end. Light to medium-light bodied. Huge foamy head, moderate retention and a pale-copper-golden appearance with some rusty earthen-clay tones and the head being white.
The crazy, drying, sourish yeast works, coincidentally, I have to believe, because it keeps this fruit beer tart and dry, as a good fruit beer should be (in my opinion).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Interesting. A notably foamy head and nice aroma. The blueberry taste is very subtle, but I noticed a whiff of green peas. Don’t know why.