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.
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(BLUE DAWG) RASCAL’S WILD RED RASPBERRY LAGER
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.
PUB DOG RASPBERRY DOG
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.
(ANHEUSER-BUSCH) SHOCK-TOP RASPBERRY WHEAT
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.
SAMUEL SMITH ORGANIC RASPBERRY ALE
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.
THIRSTY DOG RASPBERRY ALE
ABITA PURPLE HAZE RASPBERRY WHEAT BEER
Mustily dank berry waft and cereal-grained pleasantry serve tart raspberry-pureed ale well. Ethanol-fueled raspberry, elderberry, and blueberry rasp seeps into honeyed wheat bed as tertiary peach-tangerine tang advances. Diligent fruit-looped finish lingers saliently thru respected amber-clouded medium body.
NEW BELGIUM FRAMBOZEN RASPBERRY BROWN ALE
Appealing garnet-hued, pinkish-headed raspberry bombe dessert ale gains cherry kirsch tartness over chocolate liqueur punctuation and creamy vanilla malt soothe to dry wheat drift. Serve as a raspberry-pureed fruit desert. Perfect digestif treat for experienced lambic ale lovers or as crossover to lighter tastes.
WILD BOAR HONEY RASPBERRY WHEAT
(BERGER) RED RASPBERRY WHEAT ALE
NEW GLARUS RASPBERRY TART
Truly utopian Framboise-styled fruit ale with deep purple hue, bright magenta head and juicy aperitif design accrues rapturous ripe raspberry resonance. Musty rhubarb-pied red cherry souring, vinous dry-hopped yellow grape tannins, tart berry-cherry pucker and effervescent lemon-limed prickle pick up oak-vat acridity below syrupy raspberry-pureed slurp for uncanny sorbet likeness. 2014 re-tasting: voluminous candied raspberry tartness and soda pop fizzle accrued the same sweet-tart buoyancy.