Substance Ale - Blueberry
Bissell Brothers Brewing in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.18
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We can count on one hand the number of time’s we’ve used puree instead of whole fruit in a beer, but… it’s a special occasion. So we took a batch of Substance and added nearly a ton of blueberry puree. A surprising and silly lil’ take on our flagship IPA.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Brewery draught, 7/29/26.
Delicate blueberry in the nose before a spicy, lightly piney hop character and low but ample malt. No sugar or artificial character.
Texture is soft and fuzzy but amply malty despite low sweetness. These blueberries are as good as any whole fruit in my book. One of the best purees I've had. And there's plenty of beer character as a result. No cheap, sweet, dominant fake blueberry. Very easy drinking.
Delicate blueberry in the nose before a spicy, lightly piney hop character and low but ample malt. No sugar or artificial character.
Texture is soft and fuzzy but amply malty despite low sweetness. These blueberries are as good as any whole fruit in my book. One of the best purees I've had. And there's plenty of beer character as a result. No cheap, sweet, dominant fake blueberry. Very easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bissell Brothers Brewing Company
on 30 Jul 2026
at 08:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can (4/23/24) pour from AirForceHops--thanks, Chris! Opaque purple with nice sparkle, massive frothy head with poor retention and no lacing. Sediment at the bottom. Aroma is strong lemon and grapefruit followed by pineapple and berry. Taste is strong sweet/tart pineapple and blueberry; muted citrus and grapefruit. Smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste with mild bitterness. Quite a departure from how I found The Substance.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jul 2024
at 00:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. Aroma at first is Mosaic hops. Then soft berry. The citrus, pine and grass you find in the base Substance is here. Yet, the sweet berry knocks those flavors down quite a bit. Blueberry isn’t overly sweet. It is an interesting variation of Substance Ale.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2024
at 02:31