Fruit porter flavoured with vanilla and lactose, from a Californian craft brewery I never heard of so far - thanks Craftmember for sharing this 37.5 cl 'geuze' bottle. Frothy, greyish pale beige, medium sized, slowly opening head on a very dark chocolate brown beer, as good as black, with hazy ruddy-mahogany edges. Aroma teeming with blueberries in both fresh and dried form - a whole 'Blueberry Hill' if you will, brown bread, vanilla beans, dry caramel, polished oak wood, fried apple slices, young madera, stewed pear, hint cinnamon, old raisins. Fresh, crisp onset, lots of refreshing and very fruity blueberry tartness indeed, pear, fig and (strong) red apple notes as well, tingling carbonation, supple caramelly and brown-bready malt body, mouth-filling and inherently sweetish but still carrying along this truckload of crisply fruit-sour blueberries - which then suddenly shift to a more fructose-like ripe berry sweetness, when the lactose and retronasal vanilla set in; crisp berry sourness does survive this shift in flavours, lingering along the edges, but the whole becomes even more complex when a mild malt bitterness creeps in as well - with a very well-hidden, but gently warming brandy-ish alcohol tying everything together in the end. Unexpectedly beautiful beer: a bit 'oud bruin'-like but still malty and 'dark' enough to justify the 'porter' moniker, with the vanilla and lactose additions playing absolutely beautifully with the sweeter aspect of ripe blueberries, while their sourness stretches through the whole as well. Intelligently structured, complex beer, a true gem - quite surprisingly.