Sour blueberry essence sharpens bitter hop bite for green apple-soured orange rind follow-up of burnt amber-clouded moderation. But honeyed wheat factor gets lost in eye-squinting tartness and dry acidic mist. Strangely, ’06 tasting proved sweeter, with overripe blueberry essence enlivening slick malting and perfumed floral tangent. Blue labeled 2024 canned re-tasting had sweeter blueberry bubblegum aspect. Tartly sugared blueberry syruping picked up phenol lemon spritz above mild honeyed wheat base.

Overwhelming blueberry sweetness invades the senses, coating the tongue so deeply its minor wheat base is barely felt. On follow-up swigs, modestly tart blackberry-raspberry rasp peaks through ester-y finish, receding to diacetyl flicker.

Despite brisk hop-frisked pep and easygoing white breaded lightness, wild blueberries get concealed in murky malt doldrums. Needs to push the fruitiness to the forefront.

Fresh blueberry essence ignites golden-hazed fruit ale. But corn-oiled grassy-bottomed acridity, phenol hop bittering and delicate lacquering nearly undermine sweet and sour blueberry ripeness.

Initial blueberry distinction edged out by sharp grain presence until strong lingering alcohol-fueled finish. As fruit-flavored ale, just o.k.

Impressive short-headed moderate-bodied golden-hazed ale (found in 64-ounce bottle under Eagle Brook Saloon name) with immediate bitter-hopped blueberry essence lingering to juniper-spiced barley-wheat finish. Lacks intimidating fruited tartness of competing Sea Dog Wild Blueberry but maintains better crisp watered gentleness and more compact blueberry resilience.