Dark Horse Tres Blueberry Stout

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

Pours black with a small tan/mocha head the disappates quickly leaving a small lacing. Blueberry and roasted malt aroma. Roasted malt, chocolate and blueberry flavor.

Poured a deep dark brown with a large brown head. aroma was of roasted malt and blueberries. Taste was roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, and subtle hints of blueberry. mouthfeel is light and slightly creamy. The combination of stout and blueberries easily could have been a disaster, but this beer pulls it off fairly well.

Dark inky black, some thick tan head. Mad sediment. Not getting much blueberry on the nose, but more of a robust roastiness. Taste is a nice mix of roast and coffe, along with a dry blueberry sour twang. Tastefully done.

12oz bottle.
Pours a menacing dark brown-black with saddle-soap-colored head that leaves nice lacing throughout the inside of the glass. Aroma is bitter-roasted grain, dark chocolate, and of course, blueberries. Flavor is also bitter from the roasted grains but has little of the charcoal flavor that so many craft-brew stouts seem to aim for (and lacking this is a good thing IMO). There is some sweetness from the malt and presumably the blueberries to keep the bitterness in check. Speaking of the blueberries, I was skeptical about a blueberry stout, thinking that a judicious dose of blueberry flavor would be the only way it could work. And that’s exactly what they have done here -- just enough to let you know the blueberries are there but not trying to "take over" the flavor. Any more of the blueberry flavor and I don’t think this would have worked. Body is full with a thick, almost oily palate. This would have been a solid stout without the blueberries, and adding blueberry flavor could have ruined it not handled properly. Thankfully, it was handled properly.

Can’t see through this beer after pouring. Big wiff of blueberry but the blueberry is rather subdude in the taste. Medium body. Somewhat of a light fig type sweetness. Only bad thing about this beer is the label.

This beer sucked ass. Pours black with a nice mocha head with some lacing. Aroma was blueberry muffins and pancake syrup...smoked malt and diary. Flavor was fuirty blueberries, chemical sweetener, and burnt chocolate. Starchy mouthfeel.

Poured black with a tan head. Aroma of blueberries. Sweet blueberries. Some chocolate but holy blueberries.

Bottle, thanks to TampaBrew for sharing. Poured black with a thin brown head. Aroma is chocolate malt with some blueberry notes peeking thru. Medium bodied with soft carbonation and a slightly oily mouthfeel. Very nice flavor, dry and roasted with a good chocolate character and actually a lot more blueberry than I expected. Finished dry with mild bitterness. Very good.