Kinda Blue Blueberry Wheat Beer | Boulder Beer / Wilderness Pub
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Boulder Beer / Wilderness Pub
Colorado, United States
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Style: Fruit / Vegetable Beer
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.50%
Availability: Summer
Notes / Commercial Description:
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Added by Rayek on 06-20-2010
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2/5 rDev -36.1%
look: 4 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
22oz bottle. Pours a hazy light copper orange with a smallish white head that quickly diminishes to a thin collar that leaves a little lacing.
The aroma is wheaty malts and astringent blueberries.
The flavor is sweet blueberries with some tart notes with some wheaty malt. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and very watery.
Overall, everything about this is very subdued. It's not really offensive, but not very good either.
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look: 4 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
22oz bottle. Pours a hazy light copper orange with a smallish white head that quickly diminishes to a thin collar that leaves a little lacing.
The aroma is wheaty malts and astringent blueberries.
The flavor is sweet blueberries with some tart notes with some wheaty malt. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and very watery.
Overall, everything about this is very subdued. It's not really offensive, but not very good either.
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2.18/5 rDev -30.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
Appearance: minimal head, gold/brown in color, clear, moderate carbonation
Smell: honey, wheat, artificial blueberries
Taste: wheat, honey, cereal like sugar, artificial blueberries that start in the middle and are stronger towards the end.
Mouthfeel: light body and moderate carbonation, sweet
Drinkability: Not a fan. The best way I can describe this is taking the sugariness--if that is a word--of a non-alcoholic beer mixed with artificial blueberries. If you enjoy NA beer, you might like this one. One is more than enough as I have had better in the style. Usually I like Boulder beer, but this one was a big miss in my book.
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look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
Appearance: minimal head, gold/brown in color, clear, moderate carbonation
Smell: honey, wheat, artificial blueberries
Taste: wheat, honey, cereal like sugar, artificial blueberries that start in the middle and are stronger towards the end.
Mouthfeel: light body and moderate carbonation, sweet
Drinkability: Not a fan. The best way I can describe this is taking the sugariness--if that is a word--of a non-alcoholic beer mixed with artificial blueberries. If you enjoy NA beer, you might like this one. One is more than enough as I have had better in the style. Usually I like Boulder beer, but this one was a big miss in my book.
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3.75/5 rDev +19.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
L: Pours brilliant amber with a very slight purple tint under a thin white foam collar. S: Faint wheat, light blueberry, some vegetal. T: Bready blueberry with the intensity of the blueberry growing towards the finish. F: Light and refreshing with above slightly average carbonation. O: They use enough blueberry to let you know it is there but not so much as to over power the base beer. The flavors are well balanced.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
L: Pours brilliant amber with a very slight purple tint under a thin white foam collar. S: Faint wheat, light blueberry, some vegetal. T: Bready blueberry with the intensity of the blueberry growing towards the finish. F: Light and refreshing with above slightly average carbonation. O: They use enough blueberry to let you know it is there but not so much as to over power the base beer. The flavors are well balanced.
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3.68/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from 12 oz. bottle into a Sam Adams perfect pint glass. Playing Miles Davis- "Kind of Blue" as I review :)
Appearance: Deep amber orange with a lot of bubbles and a decent two finger white head that has good retention and a light amount of lacing.
Smell: Bready Pils malts, wheat, and grains make up most of the aroma. Blueberry fruit smell is noticeable but very mild. A very light hint of grassy hops in the background. Aroma is mostly sweet and bready.
Taste: Sweet pale malts and some wheat grains dominate the taste. A mild flavor of blueberry fruits linger throughout. Blueberry is more noticeable in the finish. No noticeable hop bitterness. Taste is fairly bready and sweet.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with a low to medium level of carbonation. Very smooth and creamy.
Overall: A decent beer overall that isn't overbearing on the sweetness which is a problem I find in a lot of fruit beers. That said I still think the blueberries could of been a little stronger.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from 12 oz. bottle into a Sam Adams perfect pint glass. Playing Miles Davis- "Kind of Blue" as I review :)
Appearance: Deep amber orange with a lot of bubbles and a decent two finger white head that has good retention and a light amount of lacing.
Smell: Bready Pils malts, wheat, and grains make up most of the aroma. Blueberry fruit smell is noticeable but very mild. A very light hint of grassy hops in the background. Aroma is mostly sweet and bready.
Taste: Sweet pale malts and some wheat grains dominate the taste. A mild flavor of blueberry fruits linger throughout. Blueberry is more noticeable in the finish. No noticeable hop bitterness. Taste is fairly bready and sweet.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with a low to medium level of carbonation. Very smooth and creamy.
Overall: A decent beer overall that isn't overbearing on the sweetness which is a problem I find in a lot of fruit beers. That said I still think the blueberries could of been a little stronger.
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2.58/5 rDev -17.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Looks like a regular wheat beer. No blue tinge at all to it. And there wasn't any blueberry detectable in the nose. What gives?
Mild berry taste, very mild, wouldn't know it was blueberry unless you read the label, just was reminiscient of a boring palateable wheat beer. Blase.
Even when drank in summer, this one fell flat. Glad I only bought a single of it, but even at $1.49, there are much better options. Pass.
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look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Looks like a regular wheat beer. No blue tinge at all to it. And there wasn't any blueberry detectable in the nose. What gives?
Mild berry taste, very mild, wouldn't know it was blueberry unless you read the label, just was reminiscient of a boring palateable wheat beer. Blase.
Even when drank in summer, this one fell flat. Glad I only bought a single of it, but even at $1.49, there are much better options. Pass.
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3.53/5 rDev +12.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear bright copper hue with a fine bubbled white head forming thick. Lacing dwindles down leaving behind speckled lace on my sierra nevada hop tulip imperial pint glass. Aroma has very tame blueberry earthiness aout it, almost like the skins and stems make more of a presence than actual fruit sugars. A nice sharp wheat breadiness with hints of blueberry. We're so used to bastardized artificial flavorings and aromas like Leinenkugel summer wheat where they claim it smells like blueberry, I tend to think of fruity pebbles instead of actual fruit. As this one warms up it gives m a bit of Blueberry jam smell. Flavor is an American pale wheat with hints of subtle blueberry showing up on the palate, again a very earthy dry slightly bitter blueberry not your sweet candy artificial type. Does it work well with the base pale wheat? Not really the fruit additions don't make this explode with flavor and the base beer seems lackluster by itself, very middle of the road. I guess I'm just appreciative that they didn't make it with artificial flavoring. Mouthfeel is light on carbonation body is light to medium not as light as some pale wheats, the fruit at the end starts to weigh on my palate. Drinkability overall is decent a nice summer refreshing pale wheat from the folks in Boulder I would have been happier with a hoppy wheat instead.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear bright copper hue with a fine bubbled white head forming thick. Lacing dwindles down leaving behind speckled lace on my sierra nevada hop tulip imperial pint glass. Aroma has very tame blueberry earthiness aout it, almost like the skins and stems make more of a presence than actual fruit sugars. A nice sharp wheat breadiness with hints of blueberry. We're so used to bastardized artificial flavorings and aromas like Leinenkugel summer wheat where they claim it smells like blueberry, I tend to think of fruity pebbles instead of actual fruit. As this one warms up it gives m a bit of Blueberry jam smell. Flavor is an American pale wheat with hints of subtle blueberry showing up on the palate, again a very earthy dry slightly bitter blueberry not your sweet candy artificial type. Does it work well with the base pale wheat? Not really the fruit additions don't make this explode with flavor and the base beer seems lackluster by itself, very middle of the road. I guess I'm just appreciative that they didn't make it with artificial flavoring. Mouthfeel is light on carbonation body is light to medium not as light as some pale wheats, the fruit at the end starts to weigh on my palate. Drinkability overall is decent a nice summer refreshing pale wheat from the folks in Boulder I would have been happier with a hoppy wheat instead.
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3.21/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
12 oz bottle dated 27 July 2012, so a little past date but no signs of spoilage.
A: Pours a clear, amber-copper color with a small, dingy white head. Plenty of visible carbonation, both fine and coarse. The head settles quickly to a ring and partial top coat that endure and leave patches of lacing on the glass.
S & T: vague fruity aroma [3.25] I probably would not have identified as blueberry in a blind test. This fruitiness is mixed with some wheat, caramel and what smells like winter squash. The flavor is clearly blueberry and toasted grains. Overall, bitter and sweet are more or less in balance.
M: A little over-carbonated and too sharp; light bodied; slightly dry finish.
O: A rather mediocre blueberry wheat, with limited blueberry flavor and rather aggressive carbonation. In comparison to others, however, this one avoids an overdose of blueberry flavor and the more common problem of being overly sweet. [3.25]
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look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
12 oz bottle dated 27 July 2012, so a little past date but no signs of spoilage.
A: Pours a clear, amber-copper color with a small, dingy white head. Plenty of visible carbonation, both fine and coarse. The head settles quickly to a ring and partial top coat that endure and leave patches of lacing on the glass.
S & T: vague fruity aroma [3.25] I probably would not have identified as blueberry in a blind test. This fruitiness is mixed with some wheat, caramel and what smells like winter squash. The flavor is clearly blueberry and toasted grains. Overall, bitter and sweet are more or less in balance.
M: A little over-carbonated and too sharp; light bodied; slightly dry finish.
O: A rather mediocre blueberry wheat, with limited blueberry flavor and rather aggressive carbonation. In comparison to others, however, this one avoids an overdose of blueberry flavor and the more common problem of being overly sweet. [3.25]
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3.29/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.77/5 rDev +20.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Has a strange look. It's straw, but with a dark hue. After you see it's a berry flavored beer, it makes sense. On top is a huge pillow of white bubbles.
Smells like a normal wheat beer. You note some flowers and the wheat, but also something different. The berry scent is delicate and muted, not obnoxious like other berry beers.
The flavor resembles the smell. There is an obvious berry presence, but it's very mild and only slightly noticeable.
Some good stuff going on in the mouth. It's gently sweet from the wheat, and moderately bitter from the hops, but everything is balanced by the sweet tartness of the berries. It lacks the carbonated bite I expected, and almost has a creaminess to it.
Highly drinkable. It's not too sweet and you won't get sick of the sweetness after one bottle. It has a nice taste and the ABV of 5.5 means you don't have to worry about going to jail after just a couple.
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look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Has a strange look. It's straw, but with a dark hue. After you see it's a berry flavored beer, it makes sense. On top is a huge pillow of white bubbles.
Smells like a normal wheat beer. You note some flowers and the wheat, but also something different. The berry scent is delicate and muted, not obnoxious like other berry beers.
The flavor resembles the smell. There is an obvious berry presence, but it's very mild and only slightly noticeable.
Some good stuff going on in the mouth. It's gently sweet from the wheat, and moderately bitter from the hops, but everything is balanced by the sweet tartness of the berries. It lacks the carbonated bite I expected, and almost has a creaminess to it.
Highly drinkable. It's not too sweet and you won't get sick of the sweetness after one bottle. It has a nice taste and the ABV of 5.5 means you don't have to worry about going to jail after just a couple.
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3.03/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A: Light copper color. Produced a small white head that dissipated rather quickly. Very thin lacing.
S: Wheat, malt and a hint of blueberries.
T: Similar to smell. Wheat, malt and a hint of blueberries. The finish has mild blueberry accents to it.
M: Medium-bodied. Moderate carbonation. A good choice for a summer beer that has a twist of blueberries.
O: Easy to drink summer beer. The blueberry taste is and not too overbearing.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A: Light copper color. Produced a small white head that dissipated rather quickly. Very thin lacing.
S: Wheat, malt and a hint of blueberries.
T: Similar to smell. Wheat, malt and a hint of blueberries. The finish has mild blueberry accents to it.
M: Medium-bodied. Moderate carbonation. A good choice for a summer beer that has a twist of blueberries.
O: Easy to drink summer beer. The blueberry taste is and not too overbearing.
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2.21/5 rDev -29.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Got this bottle on a whim from Market of choice.
A: A light shade of brown, red, and pink mixed together. No lacing whatsoever.
S: I really don't like fruity beers, the aroma sort of disgusted me.
T: All I could taste was blueberry.
M: Went down pretty easy. I had to slam the beer so I could finish it quicker.
O: I will not buy this beer again. If you like fruity beers, then this is for you.
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look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Got this bottle on a whim from Market of choice.
A: A light shade of brown, red, and pink mixed together. No lacing whatsoever.
S: I really don't like fruity beers, the aroma sort of disgusted me.
T: All I could taste was blueberry.
M: Went down pretty easy. I had to slam the beer so I could finish it quicker.
O: I will not buy this beer again. If you like fruity beers, then this is for you.
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2.8/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A - Thin white head with a nice dark gold look.
S - A bready malty beer with a lot of blueberries.
T - Very spicy with hops for a beer with so many malts. No bread like in the smell. Blueberry Budweiser...
M - Light bodied with a nice fruity finish with a bitter aftertaste. Very carbonated.
O - This beer is not bad, but you have to like blueberries. It reminded me a lot of Budweiser because of the similar hop spice and odd aftertaste.
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look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A - Thin white head with a nice dark gold look.
S - A bready malty beer with a lot of blueberries.
T - Very spicy with hops for a beer with so many malts. No bread like in the smell. Blueberry Budweiser...
M - Light bodied with a nice fruity finish with a bitter aftertaste. Very carbonated.
O - This beer is not bad, but you have to like blueberries. It reminded me a lot of Budweiser because of the similar hop spice and odd aftertaste.
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Kinda Blue Blueberry Wheat Beer from Boulder Beer / Wilderness Pub
Beer rating:
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100 with
273 ratings
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
12 ounce bottle - $1.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Enjoy By: JUL092014.
Appearance: Pours a clear, light amber-toned body with a small, near white head.
Smell: Mild, oddly joined notes smelling of blueberry, toasted grain with a thin edge of caramel.
Taste: Vaguely bready, mealy maltiness, not really characteristic of wheat. Light, 'off' honeyish sweetness. Low blueberry flavor. Faint hops, very light bitterness. Drying, lightly fruitiness. This one just doesn't come together AT ALL.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium carbonation.
Overall: Kinda Bleh.
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