Buffalo Bills Blueberry Stout

Brewed by Buffalo Bills Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Hayward, California USA

Dark mahogany with light, tan head / Sweet nose of blueberry and chocolate / Light to medium body, thin but balanced, with fair, very bitter finish / Weak flavors of straw, blueberry, and unsweetened chocolate / Blueberry contribution is fine, but lacks stout character.

Assertive blueberry presence in the nose accompanied by cocoa, brown sugar, and toasted malt. Dark mahogany body with a small cream-colored head that didn’t leave a ton in the glass. Flavor is interesting, unique, and enjoyable. Not extremely complex but again the blueberry shows up well. Chocolate covered blueberries sound delicious, right? Medium mouthfeel. Not bad.

Bottle. Pours near-black with a medium tan head. Aroma of blueberries and chocolate malt. Flavor is roasty chocolate and coffee malts with a slight blueberry finish. While blueberry and dark malt might seem like a bit of a stretch, it resembles a chocolate covered blueberry so it is actually pretty good.

Pours a dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is blueberries, roast, grains, sweet fruits, malt. Flavor is blueberry, roast, barley, chocolate, the blueberry and the roasted grains and dark malts meld together strangely but it works. Bitter chocolate cocoa finish with a strange blueberry skin bitter tinge in the finish. Strange brew, but keep em comin Buffalo Bill.

30th July 2008. Opaque stout with a beige head. Startling sharp blueberry and floral sweetness over a robust mildy toasted oatmeal stout. Flavour has an artificial tang but that’s okay. The carbonation works well.

pours black with very light head. aroma is light blueberry, burnt malts, chocolate. drinks very thin with fake berry taste. not that impressive but i’d take it over bud.

Bottle from coopers. Poured a dark brown color with a small dark head. Aroma is strong blueberry with some chocolate as well. TaSte is a combination of fake blueberry and some chocolate. Pretty drinkable but not very good.

12 oz bottle from Canal’s Hainesport. Pours a dark brown body with a smaller sized bubbly beige head. Aroma is pretty awful. The blueberry aroma is super strong and artificial and when combined with the roastiness of the dark malts it reminds me of cheap bathroom soap. Medium bodied with fizzy carbonation and a slick finish on your tongue. The roastiness of the malts comes across nicely with some chocolate notes as well, reminds me of the first few times I had Petes Wicked Ale back in the mid 90s. However saying that the artificial blueberry is once again so overpowering that it just kills this beer. Not good.