Too much blueberry blueberry ale

[D_Nyholm]

I brewed a kit from my local homebrew shop that was a Blueberry Ale. It was basically an American Ale kit with a 4 oz bottle of Blueberry extract (I think it was labeled Northern Brewer). THe instructions for the kit said to add 2 oz of extract for a mild blueberry taste and 4oz for a stronger taste. We decided to put the whole 4 oz in (more is better, right? ) and it tastes more like blueberries than beer. It is such a fake taste as well. I did a little reading AFTER the fact (second mistake) and read that 2oz should be used for 5 gallons of beer. DOH!! Will this flavor mellow over time? The brew was bottled 2 weeks ago so it is a little early, so i'm not sure if this is something i have to NOT look forward to? Any suggestion or just give it a little more time and then just chug them down and hold my nose?

 

[gomb]

My experience, only only once thankfully, is that the *fake* taste only gets worse as it ages. Drink it young and fast. I use frozen fruit now. I brewed the AHS raspberry tart and subbed 4.5 lb of raspberries for the extract and it is amazing.

 

[D_Nyholm]

I'm new to this, when did you add the raspberries? During the boil or did you rack to secondary?

 

[gomb]

I let it primary for 3 weeks, mushed up the fruit in a bucket, and racked the beer on that for 2 weeks

 

[unionrdr]

Reminds me of the wild Blue stuff my son drinks,& the wife had us try. It's like somebody made beer out of just blueberries & a little Carapils or something. Yuk.