Goose Island Barbary Blue

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Chicago, Illinois USA

Draught at the Clybourn pub. Dark amber thin off white head. Quite tart, blueberry sweetly evident but not dominating. Acidic. Not bad. Light in the mouth which works great with the tartness. Well done fruit beer.

Pours a dull reddish cranberry color with light white head on tap. Smell is light malt and fresh blueberries and tastes similar with a good amount of blueberry flavor. Somewhat crisp and lightly sweet but not overly so. Medium to thin bodied and very easy to drink. Not bad, actually.

Tap at GI Cly. Clear, light amber with no head. Strong blueberry aroma, sweet, a little apple, pleasant. Sweet fruit, cherry flavor with other berries and green apple. Medium body, medium carb. One of the better fruit beers, better body and flavor/aroma.

Tap @ GI Clybourn- Slight haze in a dark copper body, white head with good retention. Nose is of distinctly blueberries, natural and quite pleasant. Flavor is lined with fresh blueberries, quite pleasant fruit flavor again. Some nice malt charachter backing it up. A little on the sweet side, could use a bit more hop flavor to balance it out. Overall very nice take on a fruit beer.

Tap @ Clybourn. Had to ask for it as it wasn’t on the board. The beer pours to a clean brassy body with a thin creamy white head. The aroma is fairly light. Pretty light with cakey blueberry muffins. Doesn’t smell bad, simply too light. The flavor is extremely fresh blueberries, cakey muffin mix. Light refreshing palate.

On tap at GI Clybourn. Poured clear reddish-amber with a short-medium cap of white head. The aroma picked up sweet and tart blueberry skins and a pinch of lemon.. mostly driven by the berries, lighter, and pleasant. The flavor had tarter blueberries throughout with dry berries and wheaty notes at the finish.. overall very tasty and a great use of the fruit. Lighter-bodied on the palate and drier on the back-end.. refreshing and enjoyable.

4-25-08 on tap at Goose Island Wrigley Field
Thick red amber color with a thin light pink head. Big blueberry smell. Flavor is a bit watery but the blueberries are surely present. Usually I am not a big fan of fruit beers - and this one is actually drinkable. It isn’t big or overpowering but rather it is fairly smooth and easy to go down.

On tap at the pub. Foamy off white head over a light copper beer. Blueberry dominates the nose of this beer, leaving room for little else. Flavor is blueberry, caramel sweetness with some acidity. Really a one dimensional beer.