Precarious tart raspberry entry fades as shrill hop coarsening and washed-out soapiness outdo ancillary cranberry, cherry, strawberry and green grape souring to blandly astringent fruit finish.

Cloy Shandy-like Anheuser-Busch offshoot (with fluffy pink head sitting atop opaque magenta body) mistaken for fruity soda pop. Corn syrupy raspberry tartness allows tertiary pineapple-candied cherry, blueberry and strawberry sugaring to saturate champagne-fizzed misfire. Unassuming 8% alcohol volume will attract wine cooler crowd.

Blandly watered-down raspberry tartness reaches acrid Seltzer-fizzed solvency, neutralizing light 4% alcohol volume. Minor acidity slips into auxiliary cranberry wisp, dismissive cider souring, washed-out lemon-drop snip and teasing floral whim. White wheat spine can’t hold water. Barely betters fruitier low-alcohol beers from myopic mainstream macrobrew mavens. Serve with woodruff syrup to increase raspberry flavor.

Decent summer-fruited malt beverage posing as Belgian-styled witbier brings up-front raspberry-seeded rasp to coriander-spiced honeyed wheat spine. Candied soda-like red grape, watermelon, cherry, and peach subsidy underscores durable raspberry puree lacquering, becoming slightly cloy. A ‘sunsational’ summer shandy.

Ripe mega-raspberry theme and chambord liqueur mouthfeel counteract dry eye-squinting lime-like brimstone aromatics of opaque magenta-bodied pink-headed soda-popped fruit ale. Tart cranberry pucker overrides candied apple sweetness, medicinal black cherry coughdrop slurp, and pureed strawberry-blackberry pasting. Syrupy malt extract emulates carbonated soft drink for better or worse.

Though lacking true grit and too slight to take advantage of ripe fruit aroma and abundant raspberry infusion, at least middling wheat ale never becomes cloy. Light-hearted after dinner dreck serious drinkers will slag off as slick.

Dull sweet-tart raspberry theme gets delicately fizz-hopped, but dry-bodied fruit ale needs deeper fruit penetration, stronger wheat wafer resolve, and less soapy oxidized finish. In ’04, Pugsley Brewing (Portland, Maine) drafted similar version with honey-dripped lemony snicker detected.

Cloudy and creamy like Main Street Brown Ale, though rust-hued with tart raspberry distinction, puckered green apple parch, and floral honeysuckle whim. Fizzy wheat base lacks firmness, but luckily bittersweet raspberry puree finish doesn’t quit so easily.

Bone dry magenta-headed purplish red-bodied fruit ale spreads black raspberry soda-like thrust atop red wine spritz to effervescent Seltzer finish. Sharp oaken hops coarsen impending mouth puckered lemony sourness.

Losing none of its tart raspberry luster in bottled version, this medium-bodied amber-hued fruit beer picks up lemony cranberry sourness and wavered floral tinge above thin wheat base.

Floral perfume-hopped Pez-like raspberry tartness and soda-like alco-pop flow cannot overcome musty cereal-grained murk. Prickly carbolic fizz buries sweet wheat backbone while minor soapiness restrains lime-y mineral frolic. On second tasting, creamier caramel malts, tarter raspberry insistence, and tertiary blackberry-boysenberry-cranberry-black cherry illusions upped rating.