Raspberry Tart
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
7.83
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Treat yourself to a rare delight. The voluminous raspberry bouquet will greet you long before your lips touch your glass. Serve this Wisconsin framboise very cold in a champagne flute. Then hold your glass to a light and enjoy the jewel-like sparkle of a very special ale.
Oregon proudly shares their harvest of mouth watering berries, which we ferment spontaneously in large oak vats. Then we employ Wisconsin farmed wheat and year old Hallertau hops to round out this extravaganza of flavor.
Oregon proudly shares their harvest of mouth watering berries, which we ferment spontaneously in large oak vats. Then we employ Wisconsin farmed wheat and year old Hallertau hops to round out this extravaganza of flavor.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
One of New Glarus’ best known fruit beers, at B.U.M.B. in Antwerp. Lacing, off-white, moussy, stable head, warm and practically clear copper reddish colour with orangey hue. Aroma strongly reminiscent of (home made) raspberry jam, ripe fresh redcurrant, vanilla, ’Roosvicee’ or even rosehip tea, some caramel, almond. Sugary raspberry jam dominates the flavor, with a thin and shy redcurrant- or rhubarb-like acidity buried underneath, medium carbo, soft bready and caramelly core but the sweet raspberry flavor persists till deep into the finish, sugary and even a bit cloying, but the acidity still lurks from below and keeps it tolerable. The result of this, as with the other sweet New Glarus fruit beers, is a ’genuine’, artisanal dessert-like sweetness, which I experience as being very different from many industrial sweet beers here in Western Europe (mainly Belgium). Some of these Belgian sweet fruit beers, including the Lindemans lambics which served as an example for New Glarus back in the nineties, attain a similar character of non-industrial yet still ’heavy’ sugariness leaving room for actual fruit (juice) flavors; New Glarus essentially translated this concept from lambic to the (then) new American sour ale style and can be seen as a kind of modern craft beer-era tribute to the old Lindemans or (at least previously) even Timmermans fruit beers. Whether you like very sweet fruit beers or not, there is no denying that New Glarus is one of the breweries worldwide that has raised this concept to its maximum in terms of honesty and quality.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2016
at 13:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
At Hopishop 2016. Aroma of raspberry jam and mild tart. Taste has sweet raspberry jam, candy and no tart. This is really sweet stuff, drinkable, but not very complex or interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2016
at 06:03
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml. bottle sampled @ HopisHop B.U.M.B. 2016. Deep red amber. Nose is pure sweet raspberry jam, sweet & sugar heavy down to the point of almost seeming a bit artificial. Their Belgian Red reminded me of Lindemans Kriek & this one reminds me of Lindemans Framboise but this one isn’t as good, sparkling taste, extreme & very sweet raspberry jam, pure sugar, candy, almost artificial sweet, far too sweet for its own good, not sure if I could drink a lot of it. Fizzy raspberry jam & sugar body. Crazily sweet but good since I do like raspberry jam after all. I still think that it is funny that beer geeks look down on the sweet Lindemans beers but worship these candy New Glarus beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2016
at 01:40
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Süß säuerlicher Antrunk, Marmelade, zunehmende Süße. Viskos, intensiv, Himbeeren. Schwierig, mir insgesamt zu süß - trotz Essigstich. 10/9/8/8/10/9
Tried
on 06 Sep 2016
at 00:33
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
750 ml wax-dipped bottle courtesy of Homer’s FBW contest. Aroma is overripe raspberries, vinegar. Pours a murky rust-like hue with a collapsing bone-white head. Taste is pureed raspberries (both flesh and seeds of the fruit screaming with flavor), tart and sweet as raspberries tend to be. As good of a fruit beer as one can imagine outside of lambics.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2016
at 19:18
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
I’m not sure how i’ve never rated this, but this is and always has been one of my favourite fruit beers, ever, since right when I turned twenty-one! Deep dark red coloured body with a ruby tinted head that fades relatively fast. Bright aroma of tart raspberries, icing sugar, sour grapes, blackberries, strawberries, very light malt and many more raspberries and sugar. Medium-bodied; Super pungent raspberry flavour with a bright fruit note, some subdued grain and earthy maltiness, but the sugars really come out, along with the bright raspberry notes. Aftertaste shows a very nice, refined raspberry flavour, some sourness from the yeast and a little earthy maltiness, but the pervasive (in a good way) raspberry can’t be missed. Overall, a very nice beer that is elegant in almost every way, but very sweet as well, with a bright tartness near the end. A great beer that should be at sampled at every turn, even if you live in Wisconsin and can find this regularly, but especially if you are from out of state and don’t have access to this on a daily basis. I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Festival Foods (De Pere) in Green Bay, Wisconsin on 29-July-2012 for US$8,99 sampled at home on my youngest daughter’s first birthday party, on 30-January-2016 at home in Washington, after purchasing this before my first daughter was ever born!
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2016
at 18:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
At a tasting, thanks, smallish bubbly head, hazy lightish red color, aroma of fresh raspberries and bubblegum, raspberry flavor, quite sweet but with enough dourness to balanc. Simple but fresh and quite enjpyable.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2015
at 02:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled shared at dbarnold's, 10/31/15. Reddish-pink colored beer with a pinkish head. The aroma and flavor are tart, fruity and a little funk, with a pretty strong sweetness as well. Mostly raspberry. Really nicely balanced and flavorful fruit beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2015
at 14:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the 1st Annual Christmas at The Garvie’s tasting 2015. Thanks to BenH! Pours clear red with a thin white head. Aromas of big raspberry, light sour. Taste is raspberry juice, light sour finish. Lovely balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2015
at 13:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at craig’s. Pours deep amber, nose is tart raspberry, toffee, taste is sweet, sugary raspberry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2015
at 13:42