Sweet and sour blueberry lacquering affects candi-sugared Belgian-like yeast influence to white wheat backdrop. Minty herbal freshness sneaks inside blueberry pancake-like dessert option.

Brazenly engaging purple-browned ‘malt beverage’ christened as a porter/ Scotch ale hybrid never gets bombastic despite saturated mocha fruiting. Initially, creamy coffee-roasted black chocolate richness and ashen pine-tarred charcoal astringency overwhelm advertised sweet ‘n sour blueberry blot. Bourbon whiskey esplanade reaches sharp cola nuttiness, chafing blueberry pie tartness as well as tertiary blackberry, raspberry, boysenberry and acai pureeing. Confectionery blueberry-jammed blueberry muffin underside, slim bruised cherry wisp, and teensy hazelnut drift likewise affect rich mocha-molasses malting. Imagine a liquid German Black Forest Cake with blueberry syrup.

Taking its gloomy moniker and blueberry-horned label from free Jazz legend Miles Davis’ highly regarded Kinda Blue album, this fruited ale’s just not worthy of the exalted stature pertained to. Muted blueberry tartness stays subdued while the honeyed wheat spine gets frail, making an inappropriate impression for the moderate straw-hazed dry body. Mild grassy-hopped citrus subsidy mellows to lemon-limed juniper bittering as cake-like cereal-grained pale malting undone by fizzy carbolic astringency. A bland summery session beer for unenlightened lawn mowers.

Exacting blueberry-flavored soda-fizzed clear-yellowed fruit ale bottled for nearby Ellicottville Brewery by praiseworthy Southern Tier. Pronounced sweet-sour blueberry theme lacquers corn-breaded wheat-cracked backbone. Minor soapiness seeps into sugared malt slip.

On tap, overwhelmingly slick sour ale lacquers blueberry pancake theme with cloying blueberry syrup stickiness. Sun-dried oaken cherry and cranberry tartness reaches solvent pomegranate acridity countering pasty saccharine-like sucrose slackness and cake-battered fruited malts.

Lightest pale yellowed fruit ale offers bittersweet blueberry essence that quickly diminishes to washed out phenol drear. Disappointingly, inviting blueberry waft outlasts flavor profile and floral-herbal backup becomes non-factor. Fizzy Pez-candied tartness recedes.

Sweetly compact blueberry pie theme enlivens embittered fruited hop fizz and brisk mineral water flow of great medium-bodied amber ale. Wheat wafer wisp wallows inside raspy huckleberry-banana-lemon thicket and precarious herbal clove-mint innuendo. Preferred over souring Sea Dog Blueberry Wheat as tart dessert sipper. On tap, massive blueberry-seeded tartness overrides arid hop acridity to honeyed wheat bottom.

‘Wild’ is right! Peculiar pinkish mauve dessert beer piles on wafting blueberry pungency. As clamorous sweet and sour blueberry plot mellows, soda-fizzed cranberry, boysenberry, and raspberry tartness amplifies syrupy candi-sugared finish. Despite fructose-sucrose overload, malt-y fruited libation avoids cloy saccharine aftershock.

Exacting blueberry muffin theme seeps through red grape nicety, raspberry tartness, and honey-licked cereal-grained linger of fruity dark golden ale. Soft-toned hop fizzing advances soapy metallic whim to no ill effect. Sadly, 2011 tapped version lowered rating. Sulfuric acidity and metallic tinniness seeped into milder bittersweet blueberry pie whir, flattened honeyed wheat backbone and briskly carbolic lemon-licked spritz.

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.