Beer # 359 Gahan Blueberry Ale, Prince Edward Island Brewing Company

Beer #359 Blueberry Ale, Wheat Beer

Prince Edward Island Brewing Company

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Independent Microbrewery
Established: 1997 (Originally as Murphy's Brewing Company, Renamed Gahan in 2000, Expanded to Prince Edward Island Brewing Company in 2013)
Flavoured Wheat Beer
4.5 % ABV IBU: 12
473 ml Aluminium Can
$3.25 (Canadian) At the LCBO

Twitter: @PEIBrew

Well, I'm excited! This is my first PEI beer. I've heard good things about Gahan/ Prince Edward Brewing Company so I was happy to snag this beer at my local LCBO. Gahan, originally opened as Murphy's Brewing Company in 1997 has expanded to 3 Brewpub locations, in PEI, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and a large state of the art production facility in Charlottetown filled to the brim with state of the art brewing equipment.

Our beer tonight is a seasonal wheat beer flavoured with fresh raspberries. Let's taste it.

Pours a cloudy darker off gold colour, with a massive head made up of small and medium bubbles. Head is mostly off-white but tinged with a grey/purple on some of the bubbles. The scent of blueberry pervaded the room and I opened the can. The aroma is sweet and wheaty with a hint of blueberry "Hubba Bubba" gum. Light sparks of citrus and hops round out the nose. The first sip is a light smooth wheat beer, with some light residual berry sweetness. Freshly picked berries balance out the light citrus, and wheat that holds the beer together. Aeration brings out a deep blueberry pie.

Impressions: Fail, So-so, Pass, Exceptional 


Cost: 5/6 PASS
Colour: 5/6 PASS
Beer Style: 6/6 EXCEPTIONAL
Re-Order:  6/6  EXCEPTIONAL
Experience: 6/6 EXCEPTIONAL


Final Thoughts:

Wow. Just... wow. Normally with these fruit beers, you get a sugar attack, or there is too much fruit and it is over flavoured or sickly sweet. Not so with this beer. I expected to pour out something akin to Welch's Grape juice; instead, I got a well balanced lightly scented wheat beer. I could spend the entire day on the patio sipping this beer slowly. Snap one of these up, while you can, or 6 or 12, find a patio, enjoy the sun and #CanadianBeerMonth.




Cheers

CJT

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