Soft Parade
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.36
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Fruit Ale with blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries
This is the epitome of Short’s innovation and flavor, with a full pound of fresh strawberry, blueberry, blackberry and raspberry puree crammed into every gallon of wort for a berry immersion unlike any other. Soft Parade is not sweet, nor is it subtle; this rose-colored ale has all the personality of a craft beer combined with authentic fruit flavor, finishing off incredibly dry on your palate. Here for beer enthusiasts and beer haters alike. Go ahead and create your Soft Parade Story.
This is the epitome of Short’s innovation and flavor, with a full pound of fresh strawberry, blueberry, blackberry and raspberry puree crammed into every gallon of wort for a berry immersion unlike any other. Soft Parade is not sweet, nor is it subtle; this rose-colored ale has all the personality of a craft beer combined with authentic fruit flavor, finishing off incredibly dry on your palate. Here for beer enthusiasts and beer haters alike. Go ahead and create your Soft Parade Story.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Sample from a bottle at RBESG 2017 Grand Tasting) The beer poured pale red and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had sweetness and raspberries. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were sweetness, raspberries, fruitiness and bitterness. Aftertaste had raspberries and bitterness. A surprisingly nice brew dominated by fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2017
at 11:01
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Sample from the bottle at RBESG 2017, Tallinn. Color is pinkish red with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Berries, strawberries, sweetness and some malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2017
at 10:59
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours pink. Aroma is sweet,sour , raspberries, malt. Flavor is sweet and bitter, fruits, malt. Overall: good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2017
at 10:57
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Draft. A- Berries, medicinal, sweet. A- Reddish color, clear liquid, off white head. T- Berries, sweet, plastic. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, sweet finish. O- Too sweet and artificial tasting. For a rye beer it could use a lot more of that.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Mar 2017
at 21:01
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Bot. Looks great in the glass, all pinkish light brown and all. has a good fruit tart beer nose about it. Oooooo, my. This stuff comes across like grain alky fruit pop o the palate. Better take it easy on this. Whew. QUITE STRONG, QUITE VOLATILE, QUITE IN YER FACE. Difficult medicine all round. The looks and nose were a decoy. High gravity doesn’t even begin to describe this brew. Come to think of it, it starts to come across like a fruity barley wine in the end. Will kick your ass if yer not careful.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2016
at 15:44
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark salmon color with a large foamy pink-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was sweet strawberry jam. The flavor was sweet strawberry, cardboard, yeast and turned a bit dry at the end. Medium length finish. Medium body. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2016
at 20:10
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
Best thing about this beer is, by far, the aroma: berries, wheat, wet grain, yeast. Short lived pink head, no lace. Flavor’s awful. Reminds me a bit of an antibiotic I had to take for tonsillitis as a kid. Texture is oily. Finish makes me grimace.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2016
at 22:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from One Stop Market. Aroma is mixed berries, particularly blueberries and raspberries. Appearance is hazy dark copper with trace sparkle, 1 1/2 finger-width foamy white head with purple tinge, fair retention and decent sudsy lacing. Taste is strawberry, raspberry and blueberry. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with soft carbonation and fruity finish. Overall, the berries carry the day, covering up the rye or any other feature.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2016
at 20:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloudy, amber. Tartness and lots of berry. Blueberry and strawberry with light tartness and light yeast.
Tried
on 13 May 2016
at 12:31
7/10
Went from sober to non sober in ten minutes.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2016
at 18:37