Bullfrog Blue Cheer

Bottle, pulled deep out of the cellar, bought at the Brewery last summer. Really hazy red brownish pour, nice light head. Strange, bretty aroma with a lot of field berries. A nice dance between sweet and sour, very fruity but not overbearing. Very nice, but just didn’t wow me like some of the brewery’s other stuff. Good.

Bottle sampled on 1/10/09: Pours a hazy ruby red with a fizzy, light pink head. Aroma of fresh tart blackberries and some leathery funk with a touch of malty sweetness. Starts with good light sweetness and fruity notes with lots of tart balance and some bretty complexity before a drier crisp finish with lingering berry flavor. A nicely styled and well-made brew.

Finally drank my bottle shared at a sour tasting this weekend. This one totally lives up to the hype. Freaking awesome! Dark amber red, nice and bright and rich. So incredibly smooth and drinkable that I just want more. Great level of sourness from the fruit. Lots of berry flavor. Not overedone at all and the little age I bet has done this some good. The right amount of wood, the right amount of bourbon and the right amount of tartness. This just has everything I want. Smooth sweet bourbon, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, vanilla and wonderful finish. Just delicious.

Nice pinkish-red body with an off-white/pink head. Head is small and falls leaving behind more than a halo. The head’s reamains stay flat on the top capping it off, reminiscent of a west-nile infected stagnant pond. but in a good way Nose is very tart, cant smell that wild yeast too much, the sour berries are very bright and almost astringent to the nose. It’s really a nice dance between a very funky yeast playing off of extremely tart berries. Every sip you get funk, washing into some juicy berry notes, washing to a little funk again, and then some dry sourness that leaves your pallet slightly salivating. About as drinkable as it can be, I would probably throw up an entire fruit basket if i drank this by myself, rather acidic, but in small amounts it’s a fantastic sour.

Bottle generously shared by hophead84. Pours a reddish burgundy color with a fizzy purple pink head. Medium sourness dominated by blue and black berries with some vinegar and notes of oak. Flavor was tart berry fruits with again medium sourness, very enjoyable.

[Bottle, thanks CaptainCougar!] Pours hazy red with a small pinkish-purple head. Really nice aroma that is a little funky and fruity (with this obviously being blueberry). The taste is much the same with the funkiness starting and then transitioning to the blueberry. Decent mouthfeel with a long, fruity finish that is quite dry. A very enjoyable beer that I would like to try again.

Bottle shared by BrianK. Pours a deep violet pinkish with a nice fluffy lively head. Aroma is very powerful- intense berry, bourbon, vanilla, cream, funk, and vinous all at once. Funk is almost all out- tons of brett and lacto, with some dark cherry skin -pedio, blueberry, red wine grapes, slightly astrienget woodines, tannic, slight bourbon with vanilla and a sour almsot sharp acidic finish- awesome!

Courtesy TheCheeseMan. Deep purple/pink color, big-bubbled light pink head. Nice sharp sweet-tart aroma with some mild fruit character. Carbonation plays well tartness on the tongue, the berry character comes out more towards the finish, some oak way int he back. Nice.