Anheuser-Busch is
thinking outside the keg. It's tapping a test run of Wild Blue Blueberry Lager in four markets, including Bloomington,
Minn.
As a self-professed beer geek and sometime home brewer, the grandaddy of fruit beers, lambic, has been on my brewdar for years. Lambic, with a flavor that intermingles sweet, musty and tart, scarcely deserves to be lumped under the term beer. In case you're wondering, I like it, but like a good stinky cheese, some varieties require a second tasting for true appreciation. As for American craft brews that have fruit flavorings – I've been underwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like nothing more than
for Wild Blue to be the first world-class US fruit beer. With an alcohol level of eight percent, it might make a better
dessert beer. But I'm not hopeful given the word on Beer
Advocate. The kindest thing its tasters have to say is, "Not actually horrible, but... Where did they get this
blueberry flavoring?"
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