La Bleuette

Brewed by Les 3 Fourquets
Style: Fruit Beer
Gouvy, Belgium

ZBF 06. Very fruity smell of elderberry soup and blueberries. Wonderful fresh fruit flavour. Rather sweet taste of blueberries with a fresh finish. Bit too low carbonated though.

Tap, at ZBF 2006. Deep purple, almost black, good lasting pale purple head and low condition. Solid lingering fruity nose with hints of blueberry and brambles, soft and sweet in the mouth with some gentle grainy maltiness but blackberry fruitiness is dominant, low sweet blackcurrant in the finish with some earthy skin and fruit seed notes lingering.

Hand bottled
Dark cherry red color, small red head. Strong fruity rasberry aroma. Thin aromatic rasberry and blueberry flavor, grassy hops. Harsh rasberry fruity aftertaste. Quite simple fruit beer but without artifical feeling.

(Hand-bottled, the only one in One Pint’s Belgian week 2007) Very hazy blueberry-red color with a small head and some lace. Really fresh and quite natural, slightly sweet blueberry aroma. Neutral, very (blue)berryish flavor with some ashy raspberry stones, and some interesting melon fruitiness. A very fresh and pleasant fruit beer, but quite expensive at 50 eur/2 liters (well, in Finland).

Sampled from draught at Zythos Beer Festival 2006.
Deep deep red almost black colored, fine red head. Mild berry aroma, nice and natural with a hint on medicine. Very fruity flavor mostly blueberry and actually not much else in there. A true fruitbeer, really refreshing.

Draught at ZBF 06. Pours an unclear dark blueish red, with a small purple head. Aroma is fruity, well blueberries actually, and so is the taste.

Draft at ZBF and another nice surprise there. Dark red to almost purple body. Nose is sweetened and rip blueberries and not much else, but damn, does this not smell fantastic?! Taste is almost candy and too sweet but really made my night as this being the last one of day one at ZBF. Some light tartness to this along with almost blueberry preserves without that overdone sugary profile. Body is light with an almost creamy carbonation. Very smooth and easy drinking beer. Finishes with more blueberry notes, obviously, and light tartness to it. Very nice, indeed!

Draught at ZBF 2006. Dark reddish/blue colour with a pinkish head. Sweet fruity aroma of blueberries.Sweet flavor of blueberries with some bitterness in the aftertaste. Not that bad.