Handshakes From the Fakes
J. Wakefield Brewing

On tap at The Lionheart Pub in Albany, NY.

This one pours a very gloopy looking purplish color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like mildly tart lemons, loads of fresh blueberry, and a little bit of candy like sweetness.

This is definitely loaded up with blueberry, giving it an intense sweet and sour dynamic. I get a bit of lemon, some earthiness, and a sugary candy-like sweetness too, along with the big wave of blueberry.

This is light bodied, slightly creamy, with a good drinkability.

Though it's a bit simplistic, the fruit is well done here, and it's very drinkable and tasty. Gloop like this will never be my favorite style though.

Wakefest 2019 - greenish and delicious

 

 

a really interesting, one of a kind sort of berliner, brewed with blueberries, lemon, and, wait for it... spirulina! i have seen some green beers from fantome, but not from anyone else, but here with are with a soft but bright almost neon lime colored brew from the tap, a total oddity to say the least. it smells and drinks as weird as it looks too, my first instinct when i smell it sends me to a packet of green kool aid or jello powder, my homie says pez candy, either way a sort of artificial citrus thing going on, none of the bitter wheatgrassy sort of earthy greenness i expected from the spirulina, not anything like it is in other forms. lots of lemon which i like, needed to cut some of the odd candy sweetness in here, the lacto sourness is clean but relatively mild in this context. i dont get much from the blueberries other than sugar, and this ends up tasting like a melted green blow pop or something, total blast from the past for my palate, but im not sure i love it as a beer, cool and different as it is, a tasty novelty, but thats about it. seems like every wakefield beer has to have some esoteric adjunct. they use them well most of the time and they do here again, but how much of this does anyone really want to drink?! crazy that underneath all this is a very good berliner...