Long Trail Blackbeary Wheat

Brewed by Long Trail Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont USA

Nice berry aromas and pours a clear light gold with a small white head. Smooth sweet taste of berries with subtle wheat lurking in the background. Knocked it a few points for it’s lack of overall alcohol content and being more berry flavour than wheat. Still a very nice beer though.

very interesting, berry isn’t too overwhelming, neither is the wheat, definitely not a winter brew

Bottle. Pours yellow with a white head. Sweet aroma with notes of wheat and tart fruit. Medium/thin body, a bit to much carbonation. Flavor is again tart fruit, I’d say more raspberry than blackberry, but what the hell do I know. Pretty average and underwhelming.

Gotta give it to them, I hate fruity beers, but this is totally unhorrible. Good job, hippies!

Light and sort of fruity aroma. Some where between apples and grapes. Light clear yellow color with a small white head. Moderately tart beginning getting slightly dry in the middle. Flavor fades in the finish.

Crisp, dry, light bodied wheat beer with twinge of fruit intertwined with wheat. Sampled @ World Cafe Live beer fest

Bottle, pours like ginger ale with a thicker head. Surprisingly, however, it laces the glass extremely well. Aroma is skunky. Would it be adequate to say that it is ’beer’ flavored? Not in this crowd. So I would say that it has the light skunky type of flavor that made all the Pale Lagers out there famous. However, the light sourness and bitterness from the blackberries gives an interesting quality to it.

Now, I am giving this beer a slightly better rating that I normally would because it made me think. 3 or 4 years ago when I first tried Blue Point’s Blueberry Ale and loved it, the beer that sent me off on this quest to try as many beers as possible, I would have said that this was just as good. However, this isn’t the mind altering experience that was my first fruit beer. That philosophical aspect, to me, is worth a point or two.

Bottle. Poured a light golden body with thin head. Aroma is faint blackberry, sugar candy. Flavor is tart with light blackberry, sweetened sugary taste. Light mouthfeel. I enjoyed this more than I expected to.