Rocky River Blueberry Ale

Average/large creamy white excellent lacing head. It smells like dehydrated blue berries & fabreeze. Initial flavor is strong blue berry followed by wheatly cheap beer finished with slightly metallic taste but mostly masked with blue berry.

7/12/2009: Rocky River Blueberry Ale is stuffed with tons of fresh, floral, REAL blueberry aroma and flavor. This beer is gold in color with a decent white head and medium-light body. It is good and well-crafted, but a little bit goes a long way for me. However, mix about 2 parts of Rocky River Blueberry with 1 part of Rocky River Oompaloompa Chocolate Stout to create a pretty decent Blueberry Stout!

Sample (draught) at The Pub in Athens, Ohio during Ohio Brew Week 2009. Rating #19 for this beer.

Fizzy yellow draft. The aroma is full of very lively blueberries. The flavor is like a light beer, watery, with a touch of blueberry. The finish turns a bit sour and it sticks to the roof of the mouth. Not a fan.

growler@Vero Beach Throwdown-pours a white ring and cloudy yellow color. Aroma is blueberry. Taste is blueberry, grain, secondary spice/citrus hops-lemon. OK carbonation. Thanks to SoLan for sharing.

Courtesy SoLan. A slightly hazed strawgold pour with light lace. Light raspberry aroma with a little wheat. Adjuncts, wheat, light blueberry and a lemony flavor. Slightly thin and low carbonation from the growler. Not really a bad beer even a bit refreshing and a bit thin. Pretty much what it should be, I’d like to try it fresh.

Makes EA taste like a $9 bottle of beer...it’s that bad...and it also kinda smells like blueberries.

Growler... VBWT2008... Murky yellow ale with a small, quickly dissipating, bubbly, white head. Grainy, fruity nose with lots of fresh blueberries and just a touch of honey... a bit too restrained. Medium-bodied with medium carbonation. Begins almost cloyingly sweet, but winds up being totally inoffensive. Medium to heavy pale grain sweetness with a very late arriving hint of bitterness. The mid-length finish provides pale grain sweetness and moderate, minerally bitterness. Not my cup of tea, but SoLan provided the growler. Thanks Alan!

Courtesy SoLan. Growler. Pours a cloudy light golden color with a minimal, off-white film for a head. Virtually no lacing noted. The aroma Shows artificial blueberry syrup over sweet pale malts and light cereal grains. The flavor follows suit, with lightly toasted caramel and sweet blueberry showing in the foreground, with faint floral hops floating around on the back end. The medium -light body finishes slightly astringent. Not a very good beer. Far too artificial to be a really good fruit beer.