Whenever I do these reviews, I normally leave off the trailing end of the name of the brewery in question. I mean, no one's going to be confused that it's
Budweiser Brewing instead of just Budweiser, right? No one needs to know that they need to avoid
Prairie Artisan Ales instead of just Prairie Artisan. I noticed, however, that
Decadent is not Decadent Brewing - it's Decadent Ales. As far as I can recall, I've never had anything other than an ale from them. Pretty much all of their
dessert beers are
Double IPAs, and this is not any different.
The exceedingly hazy beer is basically an implacable wall of orange with so little head on top that I struggle to get any bubbles at all for the top of this picture. The few bubbles that remain are a single pad in the middle and some desperate ones clinging to the walls of glass. The aroma is exceptionally faint, but I'm definitely smelling maple. I would've expected to also smell blueberry or see some change in the color of the beer due to the blueberries, but I'm not seeing any influence whatsoever.
First sip does, indeed, put me in the mind of blueberry French toast. Maybe it's more blueberry pancakes, but they're definitely going the right direction. I can taste a lot of the maple and a lot of the blueberry, and the whole thing is pretty sweet and smooth. It reminds me that dessert beers are an odd bunch in that they often don't taste a whole lot like beer. That is certainly true of this particular beverage.
Tip-in is very gentle carbonation tingle with sweet orange and maple filling the whole of the mouth and cinnamon sparkling at the free ends. The middle is more like a regular beer, but it's sweeter than most would be at this point; light citrus and grains flow exceedingly smoothly in an almost syrup-like fashion. The finish is where blueberries assert and meet up with the maple and the cinnamon to give a trail off as if you've just eaten one little slice of a blueberry French toast.
Bottom Line: Does what it says in the can.
3.75/5
