Dark Horse Tres Blueberry Stout

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Dry Stout
Marshall, Michigan USA

Pours a very dark brown with a thin brown head. Aroma of blueberries and roasted malts. Suprisingly, the blueberry notes are not as evident on the palat as they are in the aroma. Coffee with a slight bluebery flavor in the background. This is good, but not quite for me.

12oz bottle into a pint glass. The first whiff is like WHOA BLUEBERRY, but the first sip is stout notes with coffee and such. I just didn’t find it to be a great combo.

Pours deep brown with purple highlights and head. Sweet blueberry and chocolate in the nose and flavor. Creamy mouthfeel.

Courtesy of TampaBrew. Pours dark brown with dark tan head. The aroma is roasty malts, sweet malts and a truck load of blueberries. The taste is up front sweet blueberry fruitiness moving into sweet malts and highly roasted maltiness. As the experience moves to the finish the blueberry fruit fades a bit to reveal an even roastier malt layer that borders being burnt. As usual, tasty stuff from this brewery.

Thanks TampaBrew for the share. Pours dark brown with a miniscule off-white head. Nose is roasted malt, perfume, prickly overripe blueberries, and some coffee. Flavor is roast, chocolate, blueberry puree, and sweet darkness. Medium bodied with a lingering sweet finish. Interesting spin on this style.

Pours a dark black with a tiny quickly disapating tan head. Nose is blueberry preserves, caramel and toffee. Flavor fresh blueberries, blueberry pie filling, smokey malt, toast, sweet malt. Mouthfeel is full. I was expecting this to be overwhelming blueberry and was dead wrong. Excellent job!

I shared a bottle of this with BeerBaron617. I took a whiff of it when I opened the bottle up and it smelled a lot like blueberries :) It poured a really super dark brown/black with a brown head. Aroma, at first was very chocolaty and very subtle on the berry...as time went on the berry became much more pronounced. Taste, well, it’s very very carbonated! Almost like a soda. It’s not really all too sweet, and certainly doesn’t have that artificial blueberry flavor which is great. With time, and as the beer warms it sort of begins to taste like a blueberry soda of some sort. I really enjoy this stout because it’s not too heavy, and is really really accessible. I honestly think I could drink this on a regular basis.

Very interesting stuff. Shared a 12 oz with MereLikesBeer. Started off just out of the fridge, with just the slightest afterthought of blueberry, but with classic stout qualities. But as it warms up, the blueberry has come out a lot stronger, and has "turned" into a fantastically complex beer. Cheers!!