Hazy copper colour. Boozy raspberry aroma. Tart body, maybe a bit wheaty. Quite boozy, with hints of raspberry and a bit of yeastiness. Gets a bit hot in the finish. Not as objectionable as it probably deserves to be.

Bottled. Hazy amber small head. Fresh, strong raspberry aroma. Very sweet and extremely malty. The extreme sweetness covers th emassive alcohol contents well, but it still feels like a raspberry liqueur. Very aromatic, but with rather one-dimensional flavour. Warming finish. Pretty good, but not one of the best from Dogfish Head.

Sadly I didn’t pick up on any of the fresh fruit flavors others did. What I did get was alcohol, berry, and artificial flavoring. This reminded me of Leinie’s berry weiss, though certainly better than that beer. It is a little sour and I found the alcohol hidden fairly well. It certainly can’t stand up to New Glarus or even Lindemans, especially at twice the price.

Big raspberry beers seem to be the thing this year. This beer is a real sipper, a raspberry liqueur, with prickly alcohol heat joining the syrupy raspberries and sugary sweet malts for the ride down the gullet. After the initial alcohol shock and a recalibration of sipping rate, this warmed up to me, pardon my pun. Rich and rather full-bodied, with a nice sweet, somewhat sour raspberry dosage. Take it easy, folks, lest this burns a hole through your stomach lining.

Bottle, from Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville. Pours a medium reddish amber with a small white head and lotsa bubbles. Extreme raspberry aroma- not overly sweet- but bittersweet, like one would expect real raspberries to smell. Flavor is very alcohol filled with hints of a bareywine, but not nearly as thick and rich. Definite raspberry flavor, but it’s a little TOO hidden by the alcohol. Very interesting, to say the least.

Bright orange/copper color, very fine lacing - aroma of raspberry (duh), apricot, peach, a hint of wood and alcohol - not as sweet as you would expect a beer of this gravity to be, but still quite sugary - it’s like they took what could have been a great, dry, moderately tart fruit beer, and just decided "lets make it a monster," and of course, you need to "feed the beast" to do that - sometimes experiments like that turn out great - sometimes not - this one kind of misses the mark a little - syrupiness and dryness battle for dominance, but neither really wins out - raspberry doesn’t dominate, but is very present, along with the peach and apricot from the aroma - crisp finish surprises because of the ABV - a miss for sure, but for DFH, even misses are passable - apparently only two cases of this reached NY, so I’m still glad I picked up a couple - with many years of aging, this could turn out to be quite a nice beer.