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.
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SOUTHERN TIER RASPBERRY WHEAT
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.
MARIN RASPBERRY TRAIL ALE
Sharp hop-fizzed ale flawed by over-carbonation and acidic nature. Pour slowly to avoid fluffy white head overload so as it settles the off-dry raspberry caress seeps forward better and pre-empts the waning grain-malt mesh. Mistakenly substitutes soft and sudsy for rich and creamy, retaining ample aromatic raspberry tartness.
SPANISH PEAKS BLACK DOG HONEY RASPBERRY ALE
MICHELOB ULTRA POMEGRANATE RASPBERRY
Sweet raspberry tartness overwhelms dry pomegranate parch of clear straw bantamweight malt beverage. Some unripe white grape and cranberry undertones get strewn about thin wheat-husked backend. Gently fizzed lemon-limed seltzer-watered mouthfeel becomes artificially sweetened then completely washed-out.
STAR BREWING RASPBERRY WHEAT ALE
MIDDLE AGES RASPBERRY ALE
(STEENBERGE) CHERISH RASPBERRY LAMBIC
Mellow pink-headed ruby-bodied ‘malternative’ betters soda pop or lame wine cooler. Fulsome raspberry signature assaults champagne nose and tutti-frutti tongue. Supportive peach, tangerine, and red cherry tartness perks up sour cranberry-mulberry-strawberry ransom to bittersweet candi-sugared raspberry finish.
NAKED ASPEN RASPBERRY WHEAT
(WARMINSKO-MAZURSKIE) JURAND DRI BEER RASPBERRY
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.