6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Thick, dense, chunky and almost fully opaque deep brown and muddied ruby coloured body with a pretty thin, fast-dying off-white head, but a lot of bubbles still showing on the sides - with some violet and odd blue tints here. Aroma of lactose, cream, alcohol, funky biscuity and grainy malts with some odd fruit notes perhaps from blueberries, but some pungent bitterness here in the nose, seemingly from the hops. Medium to Full-bodied; Very sweet, lactosey and creamy notes show at first with a pretty big kick of graham cracker and biscuity malts with cereal here as well and a rich fruit note that seems more pear and papaya than blueberries, but the alcohol and especially rich, creamy, lactosey pungency is the strongest. Aftertaste is strong showing all of these flavours, wtih the malts, lactose, cream and light tart fruits (these seemingly ARE blueberries) all here, and some bitterness and alcohol too. Overall, a deep and quite rich beer with some nice flavours throughout and while not any sort of 'traditional' IPA, this at least has some bitterness, and I still think this should be in a different category all together - this is nice to have close to Thanksgiving and local-ish! Nice if you actually like blueberry pie (I don't)! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 03-September-2022 for US$4,90, sampled at my house here in Washington on 08-November-2022, on Election Day in our fine country.