Sweet Tarts: Maine Blueberry Sour Ale
Peak Organic Brewing Company
- From:
- Peak Organic Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
Ranked #540 - ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- 82
Ranked #34,841 - Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 18.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 14
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 20, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 16, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 9
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
Sweet Tart Blueberry marries crisp, fruity goodness with a touch of sour that is entirely refreshing. With a rosé-like effervescence and a tartness that teases your taste buds, Sweet Tart Blueberry hits you with the right amount of flavor in a perfectly light body. The blueberries in Sweet Tart Blueberry are grown by our friends Jon and Briar Fishman on their farm Elderflower Farm in Lincolnville, Maine. Enjoy!
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Ratings by puboflyons:
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire
3.09/5 rDev -13%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.09/5 rDev -13%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
From the 12 fl. oz. can with a best by date of 02/06/2019. Sampled on November 4, 2018.
It pours a kind of pinkish-amber tone with a quick burst of fizzy white head.
Definite aroma of blueberry with a more muted bready malt character. The wild yeast seems to appear in the nose too.
Light to medium body.
The taste is blueberry forward with a tart, sour finish and perhaps a buried a breadiness.
Nov 04, 2018It pours a kind of pinkish-amber tone with a quick burst of fizzy white head.
Definite aroma of blueberry with a more muted bready malt character. The wild yeast seems to appear in the nose too.
Light to medium body.
The taste is blueberry forward with a tart, sour finish and perhaps a buried a breadiness.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by zotzot from Vermont
2.69/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.69/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Drinking out of a stemless Teku glass.
Pours a slightly hazy reddish pink with a small head.
Smell basically of blueberries.
Watery mouth feel.
Taste dominated by tartness. Hard to even find the blueberries.
I really hate sout beers.
Dec 20, 2025Pours a slightly hazy reddish pink with a small head.
Smell basically of blueberries.
Watery mouth feel.
Taste dominated by tartness. Hard to even find the blueberries.
I really hate sout beers.
Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire
3.4/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.4/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Can from Paul thanks for the opportunity.
Deep gold color with a decent sized bubbly white head. You would think a blueberry beer would be I don't know blue-er? Bready malt with artificial blueberry flavoring a hint of diacetyl and earthy hops.
May 11, 2025Deep gold color with a decent sized bubbly white head. You would think a blueberry beer would be I don't know blue-er? Bready malt with artificial blueberry flavoring a hint of diacetyl and earthy hops.
Reviewed by DrDemento456 from Pennsylvania
3.75/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
It's blueberries and its sour I am not sure if it was puckeringly sour looking at the reviews it seemed pretty tame. Maybe could use more fruit alot of these sours just use a little and then base all flavors on the kettle sour method to sell it. Not a bad price.
Sep 26, 2022
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.87/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Peak Organic Brewing Co. “Sweet Tarts Maine Blueberry Sour Ale”
12 fl. oz. can “BEST BY 12/16/2021”
$1.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: This is brewed with organic Maine blueberries and organic blueberry flavor. It’s poured a hazy deep amber body beneath a full head of white foam that seems to be holding well. The aroma is, of course, like blueberry but it’s light. Other than that there’s a little bit of malt to it, and nothing seems to suggest that it’s a sour beer. The flavor is definitely sour though, but it’s not puckeringly so. The malt is basic pale ale malt and lightly sweet, and the blueberry is pleasant enough. There’s no real bitterness but it’s not needed as the acidity balances it nicely. In the mouth it’s medium bodied and gently crisp. The head has held up well and there’s some lacing left behind but not a lot, which is OK because sour ales don’t usually leave any lacing. This is a pleasant and refreshing beer that’s great for summer.
Review #8,228
Aug 28, 202212 fl. oz. can “BEST BY 12/16/2021”
$1.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: This is brewed with organic Maine blueberries and organic blueberry flavor. It’s poured a hazy deep amber body beneath a full head of white foam that seems to be holding well. The aroma is, of course, like blueberry but it’s light. Other than that there’s a little bit of malt to it, and nothing seems to suggest that it’s a sour beer. The flavor is definitely sour though, but it’s not puckeringly so. The malt is basic pale ale malt and lightly sweet, and the blueberry is pleasant enough. There’s no real bitterness but it’s not needed as the acidity balances it nicely. In the mouth it’s medium bodied and gently crisp. The head has held up well and there’s some lacing left behind but not a lot, which is OK because sour ales don’t usually leave any lacing. This is a pleasant and refreshing beer that’s great for summer.
Review #8,228
Reviewed by rudiecantfail from Pennsylvania
3.54/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
12 ounce can poured into a tulip glass. Best by 10/30/2021.
L---Bluish pink color with a soapy head that faded to a cap fairly quickly and left ok lacing.
S---Blueberries.
T---Blueberry. Tartness.
F---Fairly light body. Well carbonated.
O---It hits on the promised notes of blueberry and sour. But it really has nothing else going on.
Jun 07, 2021L---Bluish pink color with a soapy head that faded to a cap fairly quickly and left ok lacing.
S---Blueberries.
T---Blueberry. Tartness.
F---Fairly light body. Well carbonated.
O---It hits on the promised notes of blueberry and sour. But it really has nothing else going on.
Reviewed by officerbill from New York
3.74/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Purplish amber with a dark tan head that dissolves into a ring.
Mild, but definite blueberry smell
Blueberries are definitely there. Well balanced between sweet ripe berries and almost ripe berries.
This is a fine summer beer. It's like grabbing a handful of blueberries without checking to make sure they are all ripe. A nice summer beer.
Jul 18, 2020Mild, but definite blueberry smell
Blueberries are definitely there. Well balanced between sweet ripe berries and almost ripe berries.
This is a fine summer beer. It's like grabbing a handful of blueberries without checking to make sure they are all ripe. A nice summer beer.
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
3.65/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A: The beer is relatively clear pinkish amber in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with just a narrow collar of white bubbles around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of blueberries are present in the nose along with a slight amount of sourness.
T: The taste has flavors of blueberry syrup—much like the kind they have in syrup jars at a pancake house—along with a light amount of sourness.
M: It feels light-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I found the blueberry syrup-like flavors of this beer to be interesting, but it was very light on the body and easy to drink and the subtle amount of sourness masked any sweetness from the taste. It was very easy to drink.
Serving type: can
Sep 24, 2018S: Moderate aromas of blueberries are present in the nose along with a slight amount of sourness.
T: The taste has flavors of blueberry syrup—much like the kind they have in syrup jars at a pancake house—along with a light amount of sourness.
M: It feels light-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I found the blueberry syrup-like flavors of this beer to be interesting, but it was very light on the body and easy to drink and the subtle amount of sourness masked any sweetness from the taste. It was very easy to drink.
Serving type: can
Rated by blognog from New York
4.49/5 rDev +26.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +26.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Best sour
Aug 04, 2018
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.39/5 rDev +23.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.39/5 rDev +23.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a touch of pink playing against a light hue of copper. Nice color! Just a film of a little white foamy head slid off fairly quick. Concave lace slid with the sips.
The aroma meshes the sweet to the tart blueberry flesh to skin-like character very nicely.
The flavor, once again, carries the sweet to the tart together very nicely and adds an underscored element of sour into the mix ever so slightly. Mild tart to sweet blueberry aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt on par. Slight tart to sweet to sour finish being all about the blueberries.
Overall, wonderful blueberry sour ale. I'd love to have again and wouldn't mind with a piece of cheesecake for dessert.
Jun 22, 2018The appearance was a touch of pink playing against a light hue of copper. Nice color! Just a film of a little white foamy head slid off fairly quick. Concave lace slid with the sips.
The aroma meshes the sweet to the tart blueberry flesh to skin-like character very nicely.
The flavor, once again, carries the sweet to the tart together very nicely and adds an underscored element of sour into the mix ever so slightly. Mild tart to sweet blueberry aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt on par. Slight tart to sweet to sour finish being all about the blueberries.
Overall, wonderful blueberry sour ale. I'd love to have again and wouldn't mind with a piece of cheesecake for dessert.
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