Beer Review: Sea Dog Wild Blueberry Ale

Serving Type: Bottle

ABV: 4.6 percent

Appearance: Wild Blueberry Ale pours a light chroma of copper with a few golden highlights. This brew was more in the middle on a scale of darker stained and blond blueberry ales. Overall, a pretty color. There's a decent white head that has amazing retention. It'll stay atop the brew for the entire drink.

Smell: The blueberries are prevalent in this brew's aroma. Not only do you get some of the tartness, you get the fruit's sweetness as well. There's also a bit of grain and breadiness that gives you some pie/dessert effect (I need to officially name this theory soon). Through the appearance and smell, I'm envisioning biting into a thick and full blueberry pie. With the extra sweetness I picked up in the aroma, I mentally sprinkled some sugar atop the crust that caramelized during baking!

Taste: The taste was a home run. The blueberries are at the forefront, as they should be. It's a perfect combination of sweetness and tartness. The breadiness jumps in as a secondary flavor and acts as a good backbone to the fruit you get on the front. A very slight hop finish puts the explanation point on this beer.

Overall Rating: 

This is an all-timer for me. It's in my top-10 as a matter of fact. A fabulous fruit beer. Sweet and tart blueberries plus a nice malty backbone. If you have a special event such as a wedding in a summer, I highly recommend this. This is the last of the blueberry ales I was lucky enough to try this summer. It's fitting that I cram them all in now as this is the last day of August.