Organic Raspberry Fruit Beer
Samuel Smith in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
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Score
6.50
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Handcrafted at the tiny All Saints Brewery set in a time warp in Stamford using the old manually operated brewing equipment. Finest organically grown barley and wheat are used to create a complex ale which, having undergone primary and secondary fermentation with different yeasts and extended maturation, is taken to Samuel Smith’s small, independent British brewery at Tadcaster. There it is blended with pure organic cherry, strawberry, raspberry or apricot fruit juices and more organic beer to create fruit beers of considerable strength and flavour. The smooth distinctive character of the matured beer serves as the perfect counterpoint to the pure organic fruit juice.
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6/10
Tried
on 12 Jan 2015
at 09:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle at the Anchor Tap, 03/01/15. Cherry red with a decent crimson covering. Nose is raspberry syrup, light straw, faint smoke, light cherry and red berry notes. Taste comprises raspberries, sweet notes, berry pulp. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, sweet close. Decent enough fruit beer, better than I’d expected, if a little sweet overall!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2015
at 16:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Dave. Aroma is nice fresh raspberry, tart woody pips, clear reddy pink, lasting pink head. Flavour is composed of tart sweet raspberry, woody sryup little artiifical. Palate is a bit sweet, tart raspberry, moderate carbonation. Decent fruit beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2015
at 11:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355ml bottle from drinkmonger, Tollcross. Pours clear dark red thin pink head. Aromas of raspberry and syrup. Taste is sweet, with a chalky note. Sweet finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2014
at 12:11
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Reddish, sweet, fruity like raspberry candy. Very sweet, uber candy, and not really balanced. I wouldn’t say "offensive" but I wouldn’t say "beer" either.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Nov 2014
at 16:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml from The Real Ale Store, Newark. Clear purple color, short to medium head. Slightly musty aroma, but a taste of sweet raspberry, Could be sickly is I hadn’t shared the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2014
at 11:53
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
@molen tasting. I don’t understand the high rating for this one. It’s an overly sweet artificial fruit that tastes like and even has the syrupy mouthfeel of lemonade. Also has a weird note of canned peas...
Tried
from Can
on 13 Aug 2014
at 08:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled @ de Molen tasting, small sample. Clear purple color, short to medium head. Big fruity aroma of raspberry, cherry pits, marzipan, slight funky tartness, sugar. Pretty sweet fruity flavor, just slight hint of tartness. A bit too sweet and a bit too artificial fruity stuff, but I like a small glass of this. A whole bottle would be way too much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2014
at 01:00
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle shared at the De Molen monthly tasting. Pours clear red with a small off white head. Aroma of artificial red fruit syrup, strawberry ice cream, McDonalds strawberry McBeer-shake. Flavor is light heavy sweet. Light bodied with light carbonation. A bit cack.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2014
at 11:14
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at the De Molen second Tuesday tasting August 2014. Poured a clear dark read colour with a thin bubbly round head. The aroma is zesty raspberry citrus. Very boiled fruit sweet like. A little artificial. The flavour is strong sweet with a sticky sickly sweet milkshake explosion palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation. Not for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2014
at 11:14