Blueberry Chantilly
Phase Three Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

16 ounce can into a tulip snifter. Released 2/19/20, had 3/15/20.

Pours a lovely purple color, hazy, with a one inch head of pink foam and light foamy lacing. Aromas of blueberries, vanilla, lactose, a bit of an earthy aroma. Flavors of vanilla, blueberries, earthy hops, some lactose, a little purple grapes. It’s a little sweet, a little tart, and has a slightly odd aftertaste- maybe from the hops? Smooth, a good light body, well carbonated.

Overall, I really like this. The berries, vanilla and lactose are a great combo. The hops do give this a different twist, though. I did not find it overly sweet or watery, but can see why other people wouldn’t like this.

 

Cool looking purple body with a thin white ring. Smell has blueberry, sweet vanilla and slight hops, pleasing but simple. Taste is a complete disaster: blueberry cough syrup with some hops and sugar, yuck! Feel is sugary, watery and just sloppy, not sure how this passed quality control. Drain pouring the entire four pack

 

 

Pours a dark, murky purple color. Completely opaque, and somewhat thick in appearance. a thin purple tinged of-white head momentarily appears before fizzing out quickly. For an NE style IPA, its about what you'd expect except for the clear influence of the blueberries in the color.

Aroma is strongly influenced by the blueberries. the blueberry, vanilla, lactose combo gives the impression of like a blueberry paleta. At points however the lactose/blueberry combo hits my nose like blueberry yogurt. Also, it should be noted that the blueberry here has a certain medicinal quality to it. Its not all that enticing to me.

Taste is, and I mean this with all due respect to the brewer, just awful. Strong medicinal blueberry notes come across with a strong artificial vanilla note. There is a minty flavor I can't shake with this astringent bitterness on the finish. At points its like drinking a melted blueberry paleta. Very sweet. And somehow as I'm drinking all of this I can't help but notice that there is a certain watery quality to the flavor profile in between the blueberry vanilla sledgehammer up front and that astringent bitterness on the finish.

Feel is medium to full bodied, with some thickness to it. Soda like in its feel and carbonation.

This is something that was brewed and just clearly didn't work out all that well. I'm just thankful I only bought a single can.

 

 

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on February 25, 2020. Milkshake India Pale Ale brewed with vanilla, lactose, blueberry and Mosaic hops. Wonderful aroma. Taste and feel not so much.

 

Released 2/19/20; drank 2/21/20 @ Hannah's.

Opaque dark purple appearance.

A rough pour yielded a huge pink-ish head; a thick curtain of lace.

Blueberry soda & cream notes in the nose.

Medium mouthfeel.

Blueberry soda, vanilla & faint wheat flavors. This tastes like a soda, not a beer. Not good.