Fruit Bat Blueberry
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 6.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 22, 2017
- Added:
- May 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.73/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor Store, where they state that this is 6% ABV, and other sources say 4.3%. I'll find out shortly, I suppose.
This beer pours a very cloudy, medium salmon amber colour, with two skinny fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of streaky mountain snow cap lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty blueberries, grainy and doughy pale malt, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some minor leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, fading blueberry/raspberry/cherry jam notes, ephemeral yeast, and more tame earthy, musky, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess appearing shortly after take-off here. It finishes off-dry, the base blonde ale really starting to re-assert itself, and at the guest fruit's expense, I might add.
Overall, this isn't a bad brew, per se, it's just that the blueberry essence hardly lights me up like the real (frozen) deal does to my pre-schooler when I deftly substitute them for his after-lunch treat. Easy to drink, sure (and likely coming in at the sub-5 percent that, I dunno, the brewery specifies), but it feels like it could be so much more.
May 24, 2017This beer pours a very cloudy, medium salmon amber colour, with two skinny fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of streaky mountain snow cap lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty blueberries, grainy and doughy pale malt, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some minor leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, fading blueberry/raspberry/cherry jam notes, ephemeral yeast, and more tame earthy, musky, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess appearing shortly after take-off here. It finishes off-dry, the base blonde ale really starting to re-assert itself, and at the guest fruit's expense, I might add.
Overall, this isn't a bad brew, per se, it's just that the blueberry essence hardly lights me up like the real (frozen) deal does to my pre-schooler when I deftly substitute them for his after-lunch treat. Easy to drink, sure (and likely coming in at the sub-5 percent that, I dunno, the brewery specifies), but it feels like it could be so much more.
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