Sea Dog Bluepaw Blueberry Wheat Ale is a ridiculously long name (I'm sure there's longer names out there..) and so I will dub thee Sea Dog Bluepaw. It's a fruit beer, with the main ingredient being -- you guessed it -- blueberries! Sea Dog Brewing Company (http://www.seadogbrewing.com) is based out of Maine and has other fruit beer offerings, which I haven't gotten around to trying yet. I had this beer as part of a build-your-own six-pack at the nearby Lowes Foods. I love building my own packs, and it is how I tend to get my beers nowadays.
When you know what to smell for, it gets easy to detect those fruity notes! Taking a whiff of the beer, the blueberries hit the nose. Since it is also a wheat ale, there's a lightness to the beer that makes it easy for the beer to go down. You can taste the blueberries, but it's very light on the tongue. Sometimes a little too light. Makes you want to take a handful of blueberries and shove them into your glass. I had a beer with blueberries in my glass at Logan Airport in Boston. If I knew the name, I'd add it to my list. Alas, it'll remain one of the great unknowns. That said, the blueberry beer I had at Logan was better than the Bluepaw. It's an okay beer, nothing to write home about.
Grade: C
Price paid: $1.50 (12 oz. bottle)
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