Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Blueberry Wheat Ale

Brewed by Sea Dog Brewing (Shipyard Brewing Co.)
Style: Fruit Beer
Topsham, Maine USA

Served on-tap into a standard pint glass. Pale gold appearance, with mild bubbles and medium head. Smell is blueberry with out a doubt. It is possible to taste the wheat in this beer, but it is meant to be a fruit beer and the blueberry is certainly sweet. The blueberry flavor is very strong, and whether imagined or not gives me the impression of a cloying sticky sweet mouthfeel. Not my favorite fruit beer. Prefer beers that do not have such a strong extract quality to them. Hard to drink more than one in a session. Not bad, but not really up my alley

12oz bottle. Aroma has notes of blueberries, riesling, and citrus. Light amber hue with a small mostly disappearing white head that left no lace. Flavor is sweet and fresh. Palate is light bodied and lively. Not offensive in any way and is actually the best blueberry beer I’ve ever had. The blueberries come out even more when you take a drink. Quite well done. Suprised it’s rated so poorly.

Bottle. Pours a clear light amber with a small white head that quickly vanished. Strong smell of blueberries. Tastes like blueberries and is very sweet with a very slight hop flavor. Not bad, but not good either.

Purchased with the label Kennebunkport Blueberry Wheat Ale. Golden pour that is clearly filtered, the aroma of blueberries was present the moment the cap was released. No noticable bubbles, but the sharpness of the CO2 is evident. Overall sort of koolaid flavors and feel. Not terrible, but not something I’d look for.

Bottle. Pours a lightly hazed amber, with little to none of the soft white head. Blueberries hit the nose even before pouring, and are quite ample upon sniffing. Mouthfeel is a little on the thin side, and the beer itself is sweet, almost candy like. Blueberry finish, which repeats on me a bit. Better than their raspberry, but I would generally rather just have a good straight up cloudy wheat beer over something with a bit of wheat and lots of sugar.

Bottle at home ... crisp shiney amber ... big sweet light blueberry maybe just a tiny bit artificial ... Fizzy ... artifical sweet blueberry ... light hop.

Bottle: Walked into my local Key Food, and this is the only six pack I had never tried, so I buy it.Fizzy orange pour with a wispy off white head that fades to nearly nothing. The aroma is all artificial- scented markers, perfumy fruit character, with just the slightest touch of stale/watery malted wheat. The body is thin and fizzy, with a vacant flavor. Watered down/lack luster wheat notes and perfumy blueberry. Has some off flavors- a bit saccharine like. Plus, there are basically no hops detectable at all. Not too good.

Didn’t pour it in a glass, so this rating is based on drinking it straight from the bottle. Very blueberry smell, with some wheat and grass in the background. What was different was the "realness" of the blueberry---nothing fake here. The taste is just as fruity, but maybe I don’t care a lot about blueberry beer. It was OK, though the body and finish were more like light beer. I don’t think I finished the bottle, if that says anything. Not bad, just not for me. Maybe it would have been different if I’d poured it in a glass, but i doubt it...not that different.