Soft Parade

Bottle shared at the Night of Garbage - I got this from...I don’t remember. Pours hazy grapefruit pink with a creamy white head. Fresh, clean berry nose, some raspberry, light tang. Light to medium sweet flavor, mild tangy raspberries, mellow bitter berry pits, slight jamminess. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Clean finish, lightly tart berries, cherry, raspberry, jam, sweat. Pretty damn tasty, really. Quite fresh and clean.

355ml bottle. Pours red with a large head. Aroma is raspberry seeds and porridge. Taste has mostly raspberry seeds with some forest fruits on the finish. No sense of the strength.

Bottle bought at Ölbutikken in May 2013. Clear ruby red with a small head. Sweet aroma and taste of strawberries, bread, notes of earth and light blueberries. Soft and very easy to drink. 8% alcohol? Impossible to notice that.

Sampled from bottle @ Beer Temple, shared by Kermis. A bit hazy dark orange color, virtually no head. Smell and taste fruityness, strawberry, lots of berries anyway. Low to medium body and carbonation.

Bottle shared from Beer Temple. Pours clear amber with an off white head. Aroma of blackberries, blueberries, all sorts of berries, with biscuit, caramel and light malt. Flavour is light moderate sweet and light bitter. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear burgundy pour with thin pink head, strawberry aroma, forward taste is strawberry which mellows into other summer fruits raspberries and blackberries, tart sourness with a slight malt background.

Bottle. Light berry malt aroma. Hazy berry red with a small pinkish white head. Mixed berry, barley malt, and a light bitterness I think might be attributed to the alcohol, although I didn’t specifically taste alcohol. Light body, soft carbonation.

Draft at Roast Detroit. Pours dark strawberry color with nice nose of berries. Tastes of fruity berries, some earth, resin, and leather. slightly watery and not particulary memorable

Crisp brown coloured body with a ruby and almost scarlet tint, with a thin, one centimetre tall pink head. Aroma of strawberries, raspberries, alcohol, blueberries and a ton - massive amount of sugars. Medium-bodied; Assertive strawberry flavour at first with a pungent kick of alcohol, malt and bitterness from metal or medicine. Aftertaste shows more of a rounded note of strawberries and raspberries for sure, some pungent malt and a bit of a sugar kick with the slightest hint of sourness. Overall, strong and fruity beer for sure, definitely good, but not in the range of sours or great fruit beers - a nice beer if you like stronger fruit beers, especially from America - but passable if you don’t like the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 30-July-2010 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 25-January-2013.