Hello and welcome to Beers and Such, your friendly neighbourhood craft beer review site where I will take time out of my busy day to drink a craft beer (usually) and tell all about it. You might assume by the name that I will also review other non-beer related things...well, there's one post like that. It could happen again, I suppose.
Today I'm going to be drinking a wild one. Blue Buried Treasure by Muskoka Brewery in Bracebridge, Ontario. This beer is a collaboration with Kawartha Diary, the makers of some of the best ice cream available in my humble opinion. It's a dairy pale ale, according to the can, and it's blueberry flavoured.
Gawd I hope this isn't secretly a sour. I can't tell you how much I don't like sours, but it's a lot.
This beer is a decent 5%, and it's a deep redish colour (not blue..?). It smells like blueberry, kind of, so that's good. I love the ice cream, and I'm hoping this beer will live up to it's ice cream predecessor.
Let's find out what we have here.
Well ain't that some shit? It's sweet. I can taste the blueberries, and it's has a really nice creamy mouth feel. It presents itself in a kind of funny way. There's not really anything to the first stanza except the feel of it, then the blueberry flavour comes barging in and makes itself at home for a bit, and it finishes with a distinct ice cream flavour. There's no beer flavour at all, and there's no real after taste, just a pleasant sweetness left behind to make you want another sip.
So far, I've had about 4 sips, and 5,6 and 7 are not far behind.
I like that this beer tastes like a blueberry ice cream if it was deconstructed and given to you in stages. Each of the flavours is distinct and nicely balanced. I don't find that any one of them overpowers the others and each gets adequate time to shine.
It's beers like this one that amaze me. The talent today's brewmasters have to bring these kinds of flavours to beer is exceptional. It's not just a vague reference to something sort of like blueberry ice cream if you overlook all the things that make it nothing like blueberry ice cream at all. It actually stays true to what it's based on: blueberry ice cream.
All that being said, I feel like this is a one or two beers max kind of brew. Not for anything that it lacks, but because just like the ice cream this beer is based on, too much of it would ruin that little bit of joy that it brings you when you first try it.
My rating: 8.5/10. It's good, it's fun, and it tastes like it should. Good job, Muskoka Brewery.
My lovely wife is my second sipper and not a beer drinker. She's a trooper though, and she's tried most of these beers with me.
My wife's rating: 3/10. There's no accounting for taste.
There you have it, friends. Blue Buried Treasure by Muskoka Brewery up in Bracebridge, Ontario is a fascinating collaboration with Kawartha dairy that resulted in a treat of a beer. It's like a glass of blueberry ice cream that can get you drunk. How great is that? Check out the rest of Muskoka Brewery's offerings at muskokabrewery.com
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