Imperial Love Buzz - Raspberry
Strathcona Beer Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Sour / Wild Beer - Smoothie / Pastry Regular|
Score
6.95
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Strathcona, pours a cloudy bright red with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out fresh raspberries upfront, with a touch of wild yeast. Flavour is loaded with fresh raspberries upfront, with a touch of saison yeast. Lots of juicy raspberries here, without any notice of the alcohol. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught at the brewery. Cloudy, pinkish colour. Tart and jammy aroma. Lots of raspberry sweetness on this one. You wouldn't really peg this as a 10.5% beer. Quality stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Intense red berry. Cloudy red with a decent white head. Big soured and sweet red berry. Intense but nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Aroma is good sweet juicy sour cherry. Has a nice pink foam and deep red body. Flavour is nice big sour funk and sweet cherry, a little artificial but not cloyingly so. Mouthfeel is crisp enough, good juicy character. The abv is invisible which is dangerous but overall this is pretty tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at the brewery
Cloudy red colour. A lot of raspberry juice, moderate sweerness, mild acidity, and very low on those tannins usually associated to raspberry beers, it's like if the planets aligned. Touch of vanilla. The alcohol is not evident. Very pleasant, juicy.