Black Raspberry Reserve

750 cork and wire. So I like fruit in my beers but this really isnt good. I mean its beautiful with its thick purple head, and a beautiful dark purple reddish body. Thats all ther is to this beer. The aroma is pesent - what you would expect, deep raspberries with a sweeet tartness. However, thats it, not much of anything else present. Taste however, is almost non-existent. For so many raspberries there really is nothing to taste. I feel its like soda with the strong carbonation but without the taste of anything. Leaves that aroma like tart raspberry in the aftertaste. As apooptosis says surprisingly unsweet. Oh yeah the alcohol was not apparent and I also had some weird smutz between the cork and the bottle top.

Tap at Spuyten Duyvil - headless purple/red body, giving the appearance of red wine - juicy, fresh raspberry aroma, without anything artificial about it, as sometimes happens with these raspberry ales - quite thin-bodied for the abv, but the alcohol is also well-masked, making it taste more like a 4% beer than an 8% - quite dry and somewhat tannic - slight wheat malt flavor - this lies somewhere between a sweet fruit beer and a mild lambic - it went well with my cheese plate.