Marzonis Blueberry Bock

On tap at Marzoni’s. Big blueberry nose, very sweet like a blueberry syrup or BooBerry cereal. Light malt and a bit of fruity hops. Light golden clear with thin white head. Medium light watery body with medium carbonation. Starts sweet with tons of sweet blueberry syrup flavor. It’s not a natural fruit flavor so there are some characteristic off-flavors in the finish and aftertaste. Sweet throughout with berry flavor and mild hop bitterness at finish comingled with the flavoring astringency.

Tap, sampler glass. Syrupy, body spray citrus aroma. Clear dark straw color...doesn’t look like a bock. Doesn’t taste like a bock or blueberry, tastes of ale yeast, blueberry lollipop, nothing much else. Doesn’t smell, taste, look, or have the alcohol content of a bock....is it a bock?

On tap at Allison Park. Poured a hazy yellow color. Aroma is disgusting blueberry perfume. Flavor is of blueberry jam globbed into a terrible wheat beer. Not a bock at all.

On tap at the Allison park Marzoni’s. Really nice blueberry fragrance and it’s surprisingly tart on the olfactory. Ubiquitous color, like any other american pale ale. there is no indicator in the color that this is blueberry. Not a whole lotta blueberry on the tongue, but it’s there. Neither sweet nor wheatish nor sour on the palate. has some ale attributes, this makes it a touch bitter. Overall, not offensive on the back of the throat and it does not linger. Not bad for a bock, but is it a bock at 4.6%?