Blueberry Thrill
Tyranena Brewing Company

12 ounce bottle into a snifter. Had 10/2/16.

Pours a medium amber, cloudy, with a half inch head, some lacing. A very fruity aroma, berry- like. Also tropical, just like the label says- orange, pineapple, mango hops, some floral hops, some yeast, light malt. The taste leads a little more with the malt, then honey- but not overly sweet, berries- more blueberry specific as it warms, caramel. The tropical hop aspect kind of faded, but presents itself with a medium hop bitterness throughout. Smooth. solid, medium body, well carbonated. The bitterness lingers.

Solid effort. well balanced between the hops and malt, really good flavor, good aroma. The hop blend works well. The blueberries were apparent and well integrated. Just had one bottle, will get the four pack the next time. Good price point, too, and well worth a purchase.

 

 

Aroma is citrus, blueberries and sweet malts. The flavor is blueberries, citrus, grapefruit, malts, slightly coarse and a bitter/mildly sweet alcoholic finish.

I remember a friend wondering why he picked twice as many blueberries as I did on an island up in Canada. He didn’t. I like blueberries. I eat blueberries. 12 oz. stubby.

The pour is…gruesome. Not only does there appear to be a roughly 30-70 solid to liquid ratio, but after several minutes, they’re still suspended. Not sinking. Blueberry entrails? Yeast? The lost Ark of the Covenant? We’ll never know. Smells like all the flavors of fruit Robitussin poured together in some kind of flu-busting mélange. Odd.

Blueberry Thrill! There should have been an exclamation point. Moderately high bitterness comes in hot, with a backing of tropical sweetness, blow-torch toasted caramel. The berries show on the finish with a soft, ice creaminess that’s more berry in general than blueberry, readily identifiable only because the label says so. Soul-suckingly dry. I’m drinking/chewing this quickly.

An interesting beer, which is exactly what I’ve come to expect from the BGW series. Nicely complex, nicely bitter, nice subtle berries. Good beer & very worth a go.

 

 

12oz bottle from Justdoit1234 (thanks man!). No apparent bottling date. Served in a Wicked Weed snifter.

Pours a dark, murky red gold with a finger and a quarter near-white head. Retention Amalie ints to some splotches across the surface, a fluffy belt and wide sheets of lacing.

Aromas of earthy berries, melon, vague floral and a little bread.

Flavors of earthy, tropical hops abound. Berry, melon, flower petals, earthy grass, bread and a faint tickle of alcohol. I don't get any strong blueberry specifically but the berry and melon-like hop presence is strong. This drinks pretty easily for the abv.

Medium, slightly resinous feel with pillowy carbonation. Bready berry skins and melon rind linger on the palate in the finish.

Tyranena has a solid IPA here. I get more flavor that I perceive as Mosaic than blueberries but that really isn't a problem for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blueberry finish seems to dither the edges of the carmel-hop-bitter. This is a good, foundational - fairly well balanced - IPA with slight blueberry in the aftertaste. Wonder if it's real blueberries or if it has been chemically blued. Not the beer to want if you're going for big blueberry presence.