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Blueberry Lambic
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rAvg: 3.78
pDev: 14.81%
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AlexFields
Tennessee
3.44
/5
rDev
-9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a beautiful reddish blue. Blueberry sours always have the most unique appearance. Nice head but unlike most Uplands this one doesn't gush.
Smells like a shitload of mouth numbing, medicinal brett and some fruity sourness that is possibly but not necessarily recognizable as blueberry. Fairly appealing actually.
Disappointing flavor...the initial burst of sour brett and mild fruitiness is pretty standard Upland, but it doesn't follow through with as much fruit as I'd like and the aftertaste is kindof off--super bretty in a kind of medicinal vitamin like way. Pretty good while in the mouth, but needs more fruit flavor and could do without the odd finish.
Nice well carbonated mouthfeel.
I like this beer, but expected better. This is the least good of the Upland lambics, and probably the least fruity. Especially disappointing since blueberry is my favorite fruit! Still a good beer but it ain't no blabaer.
6.9/10
Serving type: bottle
01-25-2013 03:35:19 |
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thagr81us
South Carolina
4.1
/5
rDev
+8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This one was shared during the big Upland sour tasting amongst a large group of BAs! Served from bottle into a Boulevard tulip. Poured a purplish red with a half finger pink head that subsided to a minimal amount quickly. Maintained nice lacing throughout the glass. The aroma was comprised of sweet malt, blueberries, funk, and sour. The flavor was of sweet malt, blueberries, funk, tart, and sour. It had a light feel on the palate with high carbonation. Overall this was a pretty good brew. This was my second favorite from this tasting which included all of the Upland fruit lambics and Sour Reserve Batch 1 (which took #1). We figured no one had brought Blåbær so this would make a decent substitute. We were right on that aspect. While not as funky like most Cantillons, this one definitely carried a similar flavor profile. With this one being MUCH easier to obtain I would not think twice about pick as many of these up as possible based on my two experiences with this brew. A definite must try for anyone who calls themselves a sour fan. If you haven’t tried it before, you need to do so…
Serving type: bottle
07-06-2012 10:59:32 |
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Viciousknishs
Virginia
3.93
/5
rDev
+4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Bottled: 9/27/2010
Batch: 142-09
A- pours a purple color with a lighter pinkish purple short lived head. No lacing.
S- solid funk and oak hit the nose at first with notes of barnyard, horse blanket and tart fruitiness. Some lemony citric quality in the middle with oak and subtle blueberry on the finish.
T- great tart acidity hit the palate at first with lovely funk and oak playing off each other. Zesty citric quality with a touch of earthy Brett in the middle. Finishes with a hint of blueberry and lingering sour, oak and funk.
MF- bubbly champagne like mouthfeel with a light medium body and active playful carbonation.
D- very good drinkability.
Overall a great sour. I just wish the blueberry had been a little more prominate.
Serving type: bottle
02-09-2012 02:30:05 |
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4DAloveofSTOUT
Illinois
4.21
/5
rDev
+11.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
reviewed from notes on 1/14/2012
Vintage 2010 poured into snifter.
Appearance: dark purple / indigo bodied beer with a one finger high dark purple head.
Smell: Lots of funk upfront with a vinegar note to compliment it. Faint blueberries.
Taste: This one is all about the sour part of the beer. Did not get a huge amount of fruit off this sour, but its is there about mid palate that you get some of the blueberry fruitiness. The beer starts and finishes with sour and funk.
Mouthfeel: Light bodied beer with carbonation that is on the high end of moderate. The beer finishes dry and it also refreshing.
Overall: This is Upland sour is in the middle of the road. Blackberry and kiwi are still my favorite Upland sours!
Serving type: bottle
01-16-2012 19:53:29 |
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rowingbrewer
Massachusetts
3.98
/5
rDev
+5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
This beer pours a dark blue color with very little light getting through. The smell is tart and funky with A nice blurbery aroma. The flavor is tart not sour and the blueberry flavor is very noticeable. The mouthfeel is slightly fuller than expected but good. Overall this is a great beer.
Serving type: bottle
11-28-2011 23:02:39 |
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EricCioe
Montana
4.13
/5
rDev
+9.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Thanks to Adam H for sharing at his birthday tasting.
This pours a strange hue of purple with a small fizzy head rising and falling to a ring. The nose is unreal, a great mixture of blueberries, sweat, and general funk. There isn't a massive combination of flavors going on, just an amazing mixture of a few things. In the mouth it didn't impress as much, but there is a great tartness backing up the blueberries. The body is medium light with a long, dry finish.
Overall, this is a fine beer. If somehow Upland could figure out how to get the nose into the mouth, they'd have something really special on their hands.
Serving type: bottle
11-27-2011 06:10:54 |
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MasterSki
Illinois
3.78
/5
rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I think this was Batch #3? Bottled 09/27/2010. Batch 42-09. Served in a Delerium Tremens snifter.
A - Quick-dissolving white foam settles to a thick collar, spotty partial cap, and no lace. Hazy dark purple-blue color that gets increasingly turbid as one works through the bottle.
S - Lots of wild blueberries, lactic acidity, spicy wood, and some funky sweetness as well.
T - Taste isn't quite as enjoyable. There's a lactic sourness that reminds me of umpteen other generic American wilds, some unsweetened blueberry skins, oak, and some soda water astringency - perhaps even a touch mineral.
M - Medium body, lower carbonation, smooth texture, with a dry, tannic finish. Surprisingly clean aftertaste, and no discernible alcohol. I actually appreciate the lower carbonation as more bubbles likely would have aggravated the astringency.
D - I remember liking this more when it was fresh - I wouldn't age this batch further to be honest. It's lacking complexity with lactic acidity dominating the other flavor elements. Still, an improvement from the flat early batches. It was really easy to put down a bottle, even with minimal help.
Serving type: bottle
11-26-2011 06:04:56 |
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brian44556
Kentucky
3.03
/5
rDev
-19.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Poured a 750mL into a Bell's Tulip. Bottled 9/27/10. Batch 42-09
The beer pours a purple hue with a fizzy, purple head. The head is very thick at the start, but fades quickly into nothing. No head is left and no trace of lacing left. Beer looks flat. Smell is of fresh blueberries and a earthy funk. You can smell a good mixture of tartness from the blueberries. Taste is semi fresh blueberries with a decent tartness. A small hint of funk is present, but this isn't as sour as I would like for a Lambic. Carbonation is very low and this beer is almost flat. Overall a disappointing Lambic offering. I have heard this is one of the weaker Lambic offerings from Upland and without having the rest I hope the consensus is right because I have 5 other of the varieties to drink at some point.
Serving type: bottle
10-22-2011 00:44:40 |
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Verecund
North Carolina
2.33
/5
rDev
-38.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
Batch 42-09. Bottled September, 2010. Opened on October 13, 2011.
Pours a plum purple-red with a short-lived, lightly pink head. Almost still after the head settles.
Nose features some balance between the blueberry/fresh blackberry tart and sweet interplay, dirty/earthy funk, and some vinegar. Light oak.
By far my least favorite Upland sour on the palate. Just-past-ripe blueberries, a tiny bit of tartness, and all of the wrong funk notes: rubbery, mostly; band-aidy; somewhat cheesy. The funk just doesn't work for me - it almost tastes artificial - and the fruitiness is too watered down to salvage the beer.
Medium-light bodied, medium-low carbonation. Flat/dead, really.
Like I said, my least favorite of the Uplands I've had. No real sourness, weird funk, and weak fruit. Can't win them all; might be better fresh.
Serving type: bottle
10-14-2011 02:11:38 |
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AgentZero
Illinois
4.08
/5
rDev
+7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A - Dark purple colored beer with pretty much no head and no real visible carbonation.
S - Tart and funky aromas. The blueberries are pretty subtle, but at least they smell real. Little bit of oak, pretty solid smelling beer for what I was expecting.
T - Decently sour and funky, the blueberries are there, but a little bit subtle. I enjoy blueberries quite a bit and it comes through enough to be a good blueberry lambic.
M - Smooth, fairly full bodied, not a lot of carbonation, but it's fine for this beer.
O - I liked this one quite a bit, seemingly more than most who have reviewed it here. Another solid offering from Upland.
Serving type: bottle
07-24-2011 22:18:05 |
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muttyd
Massachusetts
2.53
/5
rDev
-33.1%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
First experience with Upland. Here goes.
This "lambic" pours a rich plum with a fizzy, crackling head that settles into nothing. No head, completely still, no lacing. Looks like flat blueberry soda.
Aroma is mostly made up of blueberries, some earthy funk, and slight acidity. Flavor follows the nose with a sweet, slightly tart blueberry flavor, some funk, faint vinegar, and oak. Not overly sour, very fruity and wine-like. The low carbonation and stale mouthfeel really detracts from this beer. Finish is slightly astringent, not too dry. Not really what I look for in a lambic...
Okay beer. Rather overhyped, wanted more.
Serving type: bottle
07-10-2011 03:09:05 |
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corby112
Pennsylvania
3
/5
rDev
-20.6%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Pours a hazy dark purplish plum color with faint mahogany edges. Completely still with no head or lacing to speak of.
Funky, earthy aroma with lots of barnyard, bugs and earthy oak along with some faint vanilla and lots of dark fruit. Vinous with hints of blueberry, plum and red grape. Subtle acetic vinegar presence.
Tart, puckering mouthfeel with slight acidity that lingers into a vinegary acetic finish. Lots of vinous dark fruit, especially blueberry, ref grape and dark cherry. There's a subtle oak presence which contributes to the earthy character but the slick, flatness/lack of carbonation hurt this beer.
Serving type: bottle
07-06-2011 22:09:47 |
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kbutler1
Minnesota
3.68
/5
rDev
-2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottle. Poured into a tulip glass a clear, blue/purple tinged copper color with a minimal head that collars around the glass. Nice aroma with notes of tart blueberry, fruit, and slight acetone. Light mouthfeel. The blueberry isn’t as good as what I wanted. Not overly sour. Not too carbonated and wish it had a touch more. Some apple fruit notes as well.
Serving type: bottle
06-14-2011 13:03:18 |
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thetomG
Illinois
4.35
/5
rDev
+15.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Really nice appearance - very dark purple/blue color with some streaky lacing left around the glass.
Smell is wonderful as well - subtle fruity aromas mix in with the sour/funk to form a very pleasant bouquet of scents.
If you're a fan of blueberry you'll love this as the blueberry flavors come through incredibly well. Not overly sour but definitely enough tartness to make you pucker up a bit.
Its not all that carbonated, but that doesn't negatively affect anything in this case - just super smooth, easy to drink, and VERY tasty. Recommended.
Serving type: bottle
06-13-2011 20:13:29 |
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Onenote81
North Carolina
3.58
/5
rDev
-5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Bottled on 9/27/10. Batch 42-09.
Split this with my wife, poured my allotment into a large wine glass. Pours a dark purple-tinted crimson. Very thick-looking. Lots of sediment in the glass. A small pinkish head sits atop, but dies out quickly. The aroma is funkified. Sweat, locker room - just downright funky. Faint blueberry tones noted, but way overpowered by the funkiness of this crimson delicacy.
Mild carbonation on the palate. Finishes decent enough. Dries out on the finish. Puckeringly tart blueberries in the flavor. Sour lemon-like citrus, yeast, lactic-acid wrinkling the palate a bit, more funky flavors. This definitely is tart. I was surprised my wife took to it so well, but she downed it quickly and happily. I savored mine a bit more, but it was a pleasure to have. A nice tart beer with just hints of fruity sweetness to keep me sipping.
Serving type: bottle
06-10-2011 13:03:42 |
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mothman
Saskatchewan (Canada)
3.25
/5
rDev
-14%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours very little head. Color is a hazed pale purple pinkish color.
Aroma: Blueberries, brett, and other bugs. Oak, some sourness. Pretty straight forward.
Taste: More sourness than blueberries. Oak and spike. Some malts. Straightforward sour.
Mouthfeel: Sour and tart. Light bodied with a lower amount of carbonation. Ends clean.
Overall, an easy drinking sour. Nothing special, but still very enjoyable. I have liked the others a bit better, but I do like this one.
Serving type: bottle
06-07-2011 13:33:32 |
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bert13tj
Ohio
4.33
/5
rDev
+14.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
poured into a tulip
A: Beer is a dark purple color. About 1/2 inch worth of frothy dull pink head that disappears in a moment.
S: Smell of fresh blueberries. Missing a little something that other lambics have. Earthy smell perhaps.
T: Tart blueberries at first, then comes the funk you acspect from your lambic. Blueberries are sweet, but not sicking sweet. I would imagine with some age you would get less sweet and more funky.
M: Very light. Well carbonated. Left me with a drier than normal feel, very similar to a dry red wine.
O: It was a bit pricy around $18.00, I'm sure I have had better for less. But, I would still recommend this beer to any lover of blueberries and sours. Give it some age and it could blow you away. I'm going to hold on to one for a year and see what I think this time next year.
Serving type: bottle
05-05-2011 17:06:24 |
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DavoleBomb
Ohio
3.6
/5
rDev
-4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured into a tulip. Big thanks to Rempo for this. Bottled 09/27/2010. Batch 42-09.
3.5 A: Deep amber, almost plum color. Three fingers of pinkish purple head with soda-like retention and no lacing. I got some yeasties at the bottle of my first glass.
4.0 S: Not surprisingly, this is full of blueberry. The big fruitiness is acccompanied by a healthy bit of oak, subtle vanilla and tannic astringency, and (mainly) tangy lactic acidity
3.5 T: The taste is good, but not any better than that. Again, plenty of blueberry, but only a fraction of what the nose suggests. Otherwise, this is very dry with very little complexity and only a mild acidity. Not much in terms of acetic acid, but some tangy lactic acid. Oak and vanilla again. Despite the simplicity, I still like it for the blueberry burst it offers.
3.5 M: Lighter medium to medium body. Good moderate carbonation. The carbonation isn't as "active" as I'd like and the body isn't thick enough to yield a good creaminess.
3.5 D: By no means a bad beer, but easily the worst out of the four offered for this release. Big hit of blueberry, but not much else.
Serving type: bottle
04-27-2011 03:20:33 |
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Soonami
Pennsylvania
3.83
/5
rDev
+1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Thanks Dan for sharing this to have a counterpoint to LeBleu. Very greatly appreciated.
My first Upland beer, and it was a good one, Blueberry Lambic. The beer is a ruddy purple-red, cloudy with particulates, it looks like freshly crushed blueberry juice. The beer smells wonderful, pouring out a bouquet of fresh squeezed blueberries. However, the lambic part of this equation is missing, the lack of sour funkiness in the nose was a pretty good indication that those flavors were probably missing in the taste. This proved to be true as the blueberry was the center point of the beer. I have expected to find blueberry skins and seeds in the bottle of my glass! The fresh berry sweetness and tannins were there and well in balance. The acidity was present, but much more restrained than I expected from a lambic, it tasted more like tartness from the berries and not from the wild bugs. I wonder if another couple years in the bottle would really develop the brett/lacto/pedio character in the beer.
The beer was a little undercarbonated for my tastes as I find the bubbles help carry the fruit aromas and flavors while adding acidity. CO2 also makes the beer seem brighter and more lively. Overall this was a delicious beer, but I think more lambic aroma and taste would really take this over the top. Perhaps what this beer is more time in barrels to give the critters a chance to break down even more of the sugars, as I tasted a tiny bit of residual sweetness. I think that more time before fruit addition would help get more wildness and sourness in the beer.
Serving type: bottle
04-10-2011 21:42:30 |
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cetherid
Indiana
3.9
/5
rDev
+3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
poured into a tulip
A.
Beer is a dark red/purplish color. A little murky. About 1 fingers worth of frothy light pink head that dissipates rather quickly.
S.
Aroma of fresh blueberries with a little brett. I could use more of the brett...that musty barn, horse blanket associated with your traditional lambics but still blows a lindeman's out of the water.
T.
sour blueberries up front, moving on to a little of the funk associated with a lambic. Some very slight sweetness to the blueberries but not overpowering. I opened a blueberry back in December and that one had a more pronounced blueberry taste than this. I was hoping for a little more barnyardy taste but maybe it needs more age?
M.
light bodied...carbonation kind of fell flat, which was surprising as I thought it had decent carbonation from the pour. I could use a little more of that effervescent feel in the mouth as well. Slightly dry finish but there is that little bit of sweetness that makes it like a dry wine.
O.
For the price, availability and taste I think I'd rather grab some 3F or Cantillon in Chicago and pay a little more. I remember having this a couple months back and thinking it was great. I got slight more blueberry and the funkiness was more pronounced. Maybe my palate has changed and I'm getting used to that brett, funkiness...who knows
(*after checking out my other reviews for the upland beers, my palate definitely has changed. I gave the strawberry not so high marks because it was more brett than fruit. this one didn't have enough brett..I've been lucky enough to have a lot of good authentic lambics and I enjoy them more and more each time*)
....I think more carbonation may have made this a little better for me.
Serving type: bottle
03-28-2011 01:02:17 |
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sweemzander
Illinois
3.78
/5
rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750mL corked & caged bottle poured into a tulip. Recent batch. Huge thanks to Kyle for sharing!
(A)- Pours a deep ruby red, almost blue color and produced some white foam/bubbles.
(S)- Some nice dry dark fruits. Mild funk and tartness. Plenty of Brett coming up.
(T)- Again, dry and very brett-driven in the funk category. Nice tart fruits and sourness.
(M)- A nice carbonation level and balance. Lots of a funk driven Brett character in this. Nice tartness of the fruits.
(D)- A nice lambic. I look forward to see what time will do, but this is quite nice coming from the states.
Serving type: bottle
03-22-2011 17:04:27 |
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aasher
Indiana
3.58
/5
rDev
-5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
This beer was generously shared by backfat at Goose Island's Stout Fest, thanks Dave! I had really been looking forward to trying this after having the other three lambics from Upland's December release. This beer poured a murky violet in color with a light off white head which laced the glass. It had red rose highlights when put up to the light. The aromas let me down. I wanted blueberry, any blueberry. All I could pick up were other dark fruits, tart and sour notes, and funk. It had this lactic acid acidity which threw me off. I didn't get any blueberry at all. Nooo! The flavor kind of let me down too. It featured a fruity, marmalade like sweetness initially before fading into a sour and tart dark fruity potpourri. God, I just wanted some blueberries. Again it had this lactic component which really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I was getting moody, I don't know. It drank with the consistency I prefer in a lambic but left behind this odd after taste that their other lambics have. I don't think I'm a fan of the yeast that Upland uses for their lambics. Something was off on this one. I still have a bottle so I guess I'll save it for awhile. Hopefully that bottle is a better experience.
Update: I shared a second bottle of this last night with my girlfriend. This bottle actually did give off slight and subtle blueberry aromas. They were still disappointing but at least they were present. The flavor too only gave slight blueberry, leaving me wanting more prominent blueberry.
Serving type: bottle
03-14-2011 05:28:12 |
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Bendurgin
Maine
3.6
/5
rDev
-4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Andrewinski1 was generous enough to share this one with me. Poured into a tulip. Pours a slightly hazy shade of violet with about a finger of lighter colored head. Kind of a sweet batter aroma to this. Andy said it kind of reminds him of blueberry pancake batter and I think that is spot on. It's slightly tart in the aroma with a decent balance of sweetness. The taste is a bit on the subtle side. Barely tart and barely sweet. It's kind of the Switzerland of beers. I really like the nice light body but I think the carbonation is a bit much. Overall, I dig this. It kind of underwhelms but I'll still stand by it as a sound effort.
Serving type: bottle
02-20-2011 05:06:08 |
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andrewinski1
Maine
2.75
/5
rDev
-27.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Bottled on 09-27-10. Batch 42-09
Poured into a tulip. Nice mauve color. Not quite hazy but not exactly clear either. I can see a few bubbles racing upwards to a light-lavender lacing. There is a bit of stickiness.
The smell immediately reminds me of blueberry pancakes. A nice amount of sweetness is noticed among the powerful blueberry aroma.
The taste is very dry, and there is a lot of cracker and biscuit flavor here. The finish is dry and reminiscent of croutons. The tart blueberry flavor resides somewhere in the middle, but only to leave a bit of medicinal flavor. The aftertaste reminds me a little bit of burnt rubber.
I like the lively mouthfeel. The sharpness of the bubbles works well with wild ales. Not a terrible beer but it noticeably falls short of other similar versions. My 8 ounce share is enough for me, and I'll enjoy it.
Serving type: bottle
02-20-2011 04:45:38 |
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AdamGarcia
Pennsylvania
3.93
/5
rDev
+4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5
C&C'd 750ml bottle served in Hoegaarden tumbler.
Big ups to robwestcott for sending this my way!
A: Cork comes off w/ a pop. Bottle wants to gush, but thankfully I'm prepared w/ glass in hand. Pours a lovely deep, dark purple hue. Looks almost like sangria. Murky and translucent. Two fingers worth of pink head initially, that quickly dwindles to a thin layer. The color of the beer is really quite beautiful. Streams of carbonation continually make their way from the bottom to the surface. Very pleasing.
S: As soon as the cork came off I was hit w/ juicy sweet and tart scents and a nice dose of funk. Scent is decidedly blueberry. Plenty of sour. Based on the initial burst of aroma I expected a bit more. Not bad.
T: Juicy sweetness up front. Soft blueberry flavor and suggestions of raspberry and blackberry. Moderately tart flavors of green apple, pear, and perhaps white grape. Initially I picked up a little astringency in the finish, but several sips later I'm no longer finding this negative quality. No where near the sourness of Drie Fonteinen or Cantillon, but tart enough that it works. Not terribly complex, but this is a solid lambic. Loads of fruit flavor in this young bottle. I would suggest drinking this sooner than later in order to take full advantage of this blueberry tastiness.
M: Could be a little fuller. This beer would benefit from a little more spritzy carbonation. Not bad, but room for improvement.
D: High in my opinion. No problem finishing this 750 on my own. The flavors are interesting and the lack of a biting sourness means you can drink quite a bit of this.
My first offering from Upland and it is a good one. These seem to be fairly well sought after, but the reviews can go either way. I can say that the '10 version of Blueberry is legit. The best American fruit beers are still made by New Glarus, but Upland may be on to something. Low bottle counts make it difficult, but try this if you can without giving up the farm.
Serving type: bottle
02-13-2011 05:30:57 |
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