AleDog

I tasted this beer on my honeymoon during the Shipyard Brewery tour (which I highly recommend by the way) and thought this was excellent, though the one ounce taste didn’t justify a review.  When my friend gave me a bottle I was very excited. However, the Shipyard Smashed Blueberry, was not as good as I remembered.  The beer is apparently a hybrid of a porter and scotch ale with the obvious addition of blueberry.  While I could taste the porter, I couldn’t quite catch the scotch ale.  The blueberry flavor and aroma was just about right, but there was a pretty apparent boozy taste that just didn’t seem to fit in.  It was hard to drink the full bomber, maybe I would’ve liked it a bit better if I would’ve had a smaller amount.  I didn’t hate this beer, but after having the Blueberry Java Stout from Oaken Barrel, this underwhelmed.  If you do buy this, plan to split it with a friend. PB.

Grade: C+