Kuhnhenn Blueberry Eisbock Release

The blueberry crop sucked last year, but so did all the fruit crops.

 

My raspberry bush sucked..It was basically bird feed last year..lol..Got a little bit out of it, but it was the worst in the last 5 years..

 

Blueberry crop was extremely strong last year, yields were way up. They grow alot like grapes, the more stress, the more they produce.

 

This is a copy and paste from their FB page about the price and bottle issue:

 

It wasn't good to eat though, not in the area our farm is in (Ludington). If you wanted dried fruit, it was available on the bush. If you weren't irrigating, it was nasty. Blackberries, gooseberries, and blueberries, all yucky.

 

Blueberry kicked while we were there a couple hours ago. We were told that's it. It was fucking delicious.

 

Glad most of us that were wanting to have this, got the chance to atleast taste it...Do wish there was more of the KBE, selfishly, but both were Amazing...Its gonna be hard to sit on my 1 bottle of the blueberry..lol

 

The blueberry juice was not from local MI commercially grown blueberries, but wild blueberries (from Oregon). As someone who's picked wild blueberries before, harvesting those are a magnitude more difficult. Though that does explain why the flavor is so intense.

 

No way would I pick wild blueberries. Tiny and bears love them. Thimbleberry eisbock would be cool.

 

Wow, that would certainly explain the high production cost. Good thing for us that the Kuhnhenn's are great brewers but terrible business people.

 

Eric told us they got it from Maine because the original ones they ordered from Nova Scotia did not come through.

Not that it is important, I am sure you heard this from a reliable source, as well. It is just funny that there seems to be no such thing as a reliable source with Kuhnhenn!

 

Wherever they came from, they were good.

 

Just finished a grand cru of raspberry and blueberry. Interesting experiment for sure but rather have them separate. Cheers!

 

I had some blueberry in mud, it was good.

 

Well you have 10 more bottles of each so you will get to try them many more times sir.

 

You know me so well my friend

 

Anybody looking for some MN stuff that wants to trade off some eisbock?

 

Blueberry is still on tap and tasting great!