Dark Horse Tres Blueberry Stout

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

I really enjoyed this one. Dark pour with tan head. Fresh friggin blueberry aroma, wow its fantastic. Fruits mixed with chocolate, malt. An honest treat. The blueberries are potent, but perfectly mixed with the sweet chocolates, and slight coffee. And at 4.5%! I could drink it all night.

I really loved this beer. Pours a dark purple with a very small head. Hints of blueberry in the taste but not overwhelming. actually the blueberry flavoring is just perfect. I also taste hints of chocolate. Also the smell is wonderful. It smells like blueberry juice.

The blueberry in this stout, through and through, is just magical. It doesn’t just resemble a blueberry flavor, it tastes and smells like fresh freaking blueberry pie. Unreal. Hats off to Dark Horse for this wonderful beverage. Proof that a fruit beer can be much more than just a fruit beer. The blueberry, while unique, offers the perfect contrast to what is already a marvelous stout. The way the flavors bounce and play off each other is so interesting, so complex, yet so quaffable and so downright plain old fun to drink! An ingenious beer from an ingenious brewery. Fantastic.

Dark with creamy head. smells of blueberries. tastes of dark chocolate, coffee, with slight hint of blueberry and tobacco, but not overpowering

Pours pitch black, thick as oil with a mostly receding wispy mocha head. Aroma of blueberry, sweet dark bread, chocolate. Taste is fruity and sweet, notes of blueberry muffins, chocolate, and cookie. Mouthfeel is full bodied with lush carbonation. Oh wow this is a nice stout. Glad I picked this one up.

12oz bottle via trade with SuIIy - Thanks Mike! - Pours black with a creamy mocha head that laces very well down the glass. Aroma is a smooth mix of chocolate, coffee, and that blueberry. Very nice aroma. Flavor is an interesting and quite delicious blend of blueberries and chocolate/coffee stout goodness. Amazing how well the two flavors go together. Palate is smooth creamy and full bodied. A beautiful creamy mouthfeel. This is some very nice stuff..

What an interesting beer. While this was still cold my impression was that what you need to know about this beer in order to understand it is how big the underlying stout is: thick, black (yellow edging), opaque, rich, roasty, chocolately, just really deep with all of those big stout qualities. In that formation you get the blueberry from the nose and the finish, but are overwhelmed by "Imperial Stout" in the middle. As it warmed fully, you could get the blueberry all over, including the delightful swish that made for a subtle but elegantly fruity note. It is like an Impy that has that plum/port quality going, only...just a bit different. Thick, viscous, low alcohol but you want to assume it has to be big (it isn’t)...what a marvelous job of brewing. A real triumph for what it is.

Giant blueberry aroma. Flavor was big on blueberry, chocolate, maybe a hint of coffee. Slight dry finish. Very good, like your favorite dessert.