Samuel Smith Organic Raspberry Fruit Beer

Organic Raspberry Fruit Beer

 

Samuel Smith in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Fruit Beer Regular
Score
6.50
ABV: 5.1% IBU: 11 Ticks: 133
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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6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Sample at the Molen monthly tasting. very thin white head. Huge raspberry aroma. Clear red pour. Lots of taspberries in the taste. A bit too sweet. Better than I was expecting for a fruit beer.
Tried on 12 Aug 2014 at 11:12

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Pours Deep red without a head. Lots of rapsberry taste, but no beer taste. A bit too medicinal/artificial finish.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2014 at 09:07

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
550 ml bottle into imperial pint glass, bottled on 9/17/2013. Pours fairly crystal clear dark ruby red color with a 1-2 finger dense light pink head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big tart raspberry with a good amount of fruity/sugary sweetness and some light bread. Very nice aromas with big authentic fruit presence and a nice fruit/sweetness balance; with great strength. Taste of big tart raspberry with moderate fruity/sugary sweetness, light bread, and slight herbal hops. Slight earthy herbal bitterness on the finish with a fair amount of fruit tartness; with lingering notes of tart/sweet raspberry flavors on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness of authentic raspberry flavors; with a great sweetness/tartness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp, and lightly syrupy mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent fruit beer as expected. All around great robustness and balance of authentic tart raspberry and fruit/sugary malt sweetness; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Aug 2014 at 17:55


7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Flaska från bier-deluxe. Stort rosa skum över mörkt rosevinssfärgad vätska. Massor av hallon i doft och smak och även lite fat, körsbär, lätt träig beska. Relativt söt. Mycket hallonsaftkänsla men med lite mer syra, fat och beska. Riktigt fin väl kyld i sommarvärmen.
Tried on 22 Jul 2014 at 06:19

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
550ml bottle picked up at the state store
A small gusher. Pours clear dark ruby with a medium sized light pink head and some lacing. Nice looking in the glass. Aroma raspberries, grapes, sweet and dusty. Flavor of raspberry juice, sweet, lemon and tart
Not a fan of this
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2014 at 20:09

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Live review.
This is poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance is a nice looking hazy red color with a thick two and a half fingered reddish white foamy and bubbly head. Once the head starts to die in a concave sort of fashion, there’s a ton of thick foamy lacing (nice show!).
The smell has a ton of raspberry up front in a sweet sort of way.
The taste is sweet raspberry with a decent wheat kick near the end.
On the palate, this one sits about a light to medium in body with a decent sessionable aspect about it. The carbonation seems to be extremely smooth in this one.
Overall, I like it. This is a pretty good raspberry ale with a decent refreshing quality that’ll make your summers enjoyable.
Tried on 18 Jun 2014 at 12:10

4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 5
Rötliches Bier mit ordentlicher Schaumkrone. Geruch süß nach Himbeeren, etwas malzig, hopfig, so ist auch der Geschmack.
Tried on 20 May 2014 at 11:54

4.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottle 355ml @ My parents
Pours slightly hazy red with a pink head. Aroma has notes of malt. artificial raspberry and hint of sourness. Taste is light to medium sweet, light bitter and light sour. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2014 at 16:16

7.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
(bottle) clear bright red colour with a small pink head; aroma of raspberries;nice balanced flavour with a long light bitter sweet flavour
Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2014 at 13:56