Purple Haze
(has 1 batch)
Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.58
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Purple Haze® is a lager brewed with real raspberries added after filtration. It is brewed with pilsner and wheat malts and Vanguard hops. The berries add a fruity aroma, tartly sweet taste and a subtle purple color and haze...you may see fruit pulp in the beer. This beer is best served with salads or light fruit desserts, such as soufflés or chiffon cakes. Many people enjoy it with chocolate desserts. Purple Haze® pairs well with certain cheeses, such as ripened Brie or any dessert made with mascarpone. It’s also great paired with entrees prepared with fruit, especially citrus. Consider enjoying Purple Haze® alone at the end of your meal as dessert.
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2.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 1
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Bottle. Light orange with a small white head. Aroma was candy raspberry and weak wheat. All I can say about the flavor is raspberry flavored Alka-Seltzer. Thin watery carbonated body with a tannic finish. A few sips and the rest went down the drain.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2010
at 16:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. A hazy amber ber with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and berries. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of berries, leading to a dry wheaty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2010
at 11:31
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle into flute. Pours a hazy cantaloupe-colored hue with a medium head that recedes quickly, leaving a collar of foam full of big bubbles and some decent lace. Aroma is both tart and sweet raspberries, Zipfizz candy, wheat. Taste is sweet (not overbearing) with no bitterness. Tastes like berries, no surprise. Body is very thin and watery. Medium-high carbonation. Tastes more like flavored seltzer water than beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2010
at 23:31
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle. murky gold pour with thin bubbly off-white head. earthy aroma with a hint of the raspberry. lightly sweet berry taste up front that peters out fairly quickly. makes it a brief dry sour finish. Not as offensive as many other rating say it is. I don’t think the Raspberry taste is artificial either. The sample I had was a very nice fruit beer. If you like fruit beers, this is nice. Not not why it’s geting such bad ratings??
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2010
at 09:32
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
World Cup Beer tasting at Lazy Boy Saloon Beer #6. I see this beer on tap everywhere that I go so figured this tasting is a good time to try. Pour looks like the color of the inside of a very dry plum. Smell is of fruits. taste isn’t very good and isn’t all that fruity or like beer. well i’ve got a Louissiana rate now
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jun 2010
at 12:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Slightly redder, but otherwise average wheat beer with hint of raspberry flavor. A little flat and dry. Rated 8/11/04
Tried
on 01 May 2010
at 22:59
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Ulysses. Not bad at all. Pours a light, orange-red with a foamy white head. Wheat nose with slight hints of raspberry and yeast. Flavor is very bready, with some mild malty sweetness and fruity tartness. Light to medium in body, well carbonated and pretty crisp. If you like fruit and/or wheat beers, this will be right up your alley.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Feb 2010
at 18:37
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle at Norfolk (US) beer festival. Dark maroon, scant tan head. Mild fruit aroma, fairly plain flavor, decent malt and sweetish raspberry, inadequately balanced. OK, but not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2009
at 22:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap at Yard House in San Diego. Pours hazy deep orange with a small white head. Aroma is crisp orange and tangerine fruity. Mild citric base flavour, rather dry yet refreshing with a bitterness making the finish even more dry and crisp.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jul 2009
at 10:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Poured hazy gold with a white head. Aroma consisted of fruits and a touch of malts. Flavor had the presence of raspberries and while easy drinking, it is not complex in anyway.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2009
at 15:09