Filthy Blonde - Wild Blueberries
The Bruery

 

 

A: The pour is a purplish-pink color with quite a bit of haze and a short lived off-white head.

S: A decent tartness to the nose that you seem to get with blueberries. Not really any distinctly blueberry aroma to it, but fruity and perhaps a bit woodsy.

T: The beer is quite dry, woody, and astringent (aspirin quality to it). The fruit seems to have contributed to all three of these factors. There is a faint tartness to it, and a mild berry flavor.

M: The body is medium and like all the other casks, very mildly carbonated.

D: This one was hard to drink due to the astringency of the beer. Blueberries seem to be hard to do (well) in a beer, and this is another example.

The "blue" of the "red, white and brue" celebration at The Bruery during the 4th of July. On to the beer:

Kind of pinkish in color. The head was better than the peach version in retention and look, but that's not saying much. I wasn't so sure what to think of this one. I was expecting mooe blueberry, so I was initially dissapointed. But as I drank more, I stopped worrying about fruit and instead focused on the beer. The aroma is very light, the taste also being light, but with some complexity. It's a tiny bit sour, with rye, lemon...not finding the blueberry very well, but that's just me. Light and uncarbonated from the cask, fairly easy to drink, though not as easy to quaff as the white peach version.

Poured a amber brown with pink highlights and a half finger of head that left a decent amount of lacing sticky to the glass. Like the las 2 fruit flavored filthy blondes the blueberries were very faint and the wheat malts stood out more but had slight brett notes. Its taste was light on the blueberries as well but was a bit more fruit forward than the other 2 variations mostly just the malts, brett and a hint of citrus stood out. The beer was light bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation that also had a grainy crisp mild fruit sweetness finish. Drank very well and was my favorite of the 3 filthy blonde fruit beers. I think they should ferment the fruit longer in the beer to make the flavors more intense.

On cask at The Bruery, as with July 4th, 2009 the blueberry beer was the winner,

A: Pours a deep pink/fuschia with a big 1.5 finger head, leaves some lace.

S: Blueberries, hint of barnyard, but nowhere as prominent as the with the peach version.

T: Great off-dry bluberry flavours overall with a nice interplay of light funky character with the Brett. This was certainly though the fruitiest of the 3 and my clear favourite.

M: Light/medium-bodied, the fruit lended a bigger bodied. Smooth and elegant, easy to drink.

D: While I liked the first 2 I wasn't really enthralled, this one I was with. Very good real fruit flavours with that Brett ferementation did wonders.