Hot off the 3.75 win of the blueberry cream ale comes this wheat ale with the same unusual ingredient. Have these breweries stumbled onto something hitherto unknown? No. It seems, going back in my catalog, that I have had five other brews with that same ingredient already, and they weren't all winners. This one will be, right? 4 Sons is due to hit one out the park at this point, and I'm here to watch it go over that wall.
The beer does have a slight blue sheen to it, but the dominating color is a very murky copper - almost like copper that is tarnishing and hasn't been polished in a very long time, so it's got a little whiteness to the blueing. The head isn't going nuts, but it is there and respectable (it doesn't leave lacing, but this is a wheat ale, so come on). The aroma immediately makes me look suspiciously at the can. It doesn't say sour anywhere on it, but that's what I smell in addition to the blueberries and wheat.First sip is not a sour beer, but it's got a lot of sour in there. It has too much, frankly, and I think I was generous with some of the previous sour-ish beers that I have hit. Yes, I tend to just blanket the sour and coffee beers with 0.0 ratings and move on, but some are hovering in the Not Great category. Just because I don't like them doesn't mean no one will.
Tip-in is sour nonsense with a wheat backing and a subtle blueberry haze. The middle is a more traditional grain slurry with very, very light blueberry and light (yet persistent) sour. The finish is a haze of blueberry cut down in its prime by a sour sword with a wheat hilt.
Bottom Line: Stop trying to make sour happen.
1.0/5