Estes Park Bear Lake Blueberry Wheat

Brewed by Estes Park Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Estes Park, Colorado USA

Head is fully diminishing. Body is light to medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), with a light note of blueberry. Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation.

Ever had blueberry pancakes with the dried blueberries? This is it, liquified. Too sweet, not complex enough.

Bottle. Pours cloudy, hazy gold with a small rocky white head. Blueberry and wheat malt aromas with a faint fruit hop nose. Spotty lacing. Hoppy blueberry and wheat flavor. Light bodied and lively carbonation.

Bottle poured a hazy golden color with a small white head. Aroma is mostly blueberries. Flavor is blueberries, cookie, and a mildly bitter finish.

This started off tasting like a blueberry muffin, but they must have added a few extra handfulls of hops - the finish has a warming bitterness to it. I’m not entirely sure that flavor combination works or not. Otherwise, it’s like their other wheat beers - thin, tangy, some crispness.

Typical bland fruit beer aroma of extract, low-grade malt, some cinnamon. Not bad, but far from great. Phenolic, as are many of these fake fruit beers, and a faint Blueberry fruitiness. A good be for the non-beer fan, but not for me.