Graeter's Blueberry Pie Brown Ale
Braxton Brewing Company - Braxton Covington

 

 

 

 

 

12 FL OZ can
Served in a perfect pint glass

This beer pours a deep, ruddy, brown color with burnt orange highlights. It is topped with two inches of tan head that leaves some nice lacing rings as I consume.

It has an intense blueberry aroma from the word go. I also get a brown sugar aroma as it warms along with cinnamon roll. Blueberry muffin.

The blueberry is unmistakable in the taste. The brown ale come through with some cocoa flavor. It is sweet and dessert like.

Medium mouthfeel

Due to the sweetness one is more than enough. I like it better than their other Graeters beer. I think my other can of this beer will make some great blueberry pancakes tomorrow morning.

Certainly in keeping with the name and intentions, packed with overwhelming blueberry aromas and an incredibly sweet, fruited-ice cream flavor profile (really like a blueberry chocoloate cake ice cream). But comes off as more than a gimmick than a genuine beer, as the sweetness is cloying, the fruit and cake overwhelm anything else that's going on, and the feel is extremely thin and over-carbonated. Certainly something very different from the norm, but not a beer I could drink a full pint/can of.

12 ounce can, canned on 09/06/17. Served in a pint glass, the beer pours a mostly clear brownish/red color with about an inch light tan head that didn't stay around for very long. There's a small amount of lacing. The brew smells like blueberries, vanilla and bready malt. Taste is similar to the aroma, but there's also some general fruit juice and earthiness noticeable. It really does have a nice blueberry pie type flavor to it. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's a bit coating and easy to drink with a good amount of carbonation. I liked this, certainly worth picking up if you come across some!

 

 

 

 

 

The love affair between Braxton beer and Graeter's ice cream keeps a growin', this time sharing a rich and tangy robustness of blueberry pie with a calming brown ale for flavors that share multiple affinities, add complexity and balance each other beautifully.

Ruby and tawny in color and sheen, the lightly hazy beer crowns with a terse foam character but billows over with rich fruit aromatics, seeming jammy, crusted and savory to the nose. In taste, the sweetness of caramel and praline coats the front of the tongue with cakey and pastry-like malts.

With the lush sweetness holding firm, the simpleton of caramel and honey is joined by slightly more robust aspects of chocolate, toast and coffee. Bready and somewhat buttered, the base beer is the perfect bed for the fruit. A strong blueberry presence charges in and dominates the nose with a tangy, bright and lightly acidic assembly of lemon, strawberry and rhubarb nuances.

Medium bodied and light on bitterness, the ale registers fuller on the palate from its long, savory and rich blueberry pie impressions. The ale leaves a sense of neapolitan ice cream and fruit juice in aftertaste while a medium acidic mouthfeel offers just enough of a reprieve from the lingering malt sweetness.

From the growler via Jungle Jim's Eastgate enjoyed in a snifter. This nice brown
pours a ruby tinged light brown color with a nice head of off white foam that
settles to a thick ring, light subtle pool, and shows some subtle lacing. Nose of
blueberries, subtle vanilla, subtle cream, and sweet mildly earthy malts. Flavors
follow the nose with vanilla and a pronounced blueberry note mingling with a
subtle breaded malt note and touches of char that when cold is more pronounced
but fades with warmth. Decent mouth feel; medium body, medium low carbonation,
and a nice blueberry finish. Overall, a solid offering for a good cause,--pediatric brain
cancer.

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