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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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
(Bottle 35,5 cl) A raspberry-wheat beer from Louisiana! Oh yes, it had to come. Has the typical wheaty haze with some sediment. Orangey with a slight reddish tint and a good head. Quite dry and only a hint of sweetness from the fruit. Actualy quite refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2005
at 12:59
2.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
I knew better of coures, but couldn’t help myself. Pours a hazy off gold with a dirtyish purple tinge. Seriously - aroma of dishwater and diarrhea. It took some courage to taste but it turns out it wasn’t too scary. Actually, if not for the lightest hint of metal and raspberries, this would be utterly flavorless. Of course, neither the metallic notes nor the weak hint of raspberry were especially pleasant. Fizzy. Down the drain it went.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2005
at 22:10
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cloudy orange body, thin off-white head. Tangy wheat aroma, some bitter earthy elements, and light raspberry. Flavor is tangy and somewhat soapy with wheat and light raspberry; this beer reminds me of a raspberry-flavored sparkling water. Weak body, highly carbonated.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2004
at 22:26
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Appearance is cloudy golden, with a very nice head. Aroma is NICE- thick raspberries. Tastes very wheaty- with only a hint of fruit... nothing all that special. The smell is the best part- and that’s quite nice.
Tried
on 07 May 2004
at 17:05
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
This is both a fruit beer and a "gimmick" beer which is how I categorize anything that tries to grab market share with it's name, label or special unnecessary ingredient. Fair beer but not for me thanks. Try the Turbo Dog instead.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2004
at 10:38
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pale hazy golden straw color. Maybe a touch of white head. Initial taste is. . .bland. Though it wasnt bad tasting, just a regular wheat flavor, not very strong. I had to wait for the flavor to hit, which didnt hit hard. More like a light honey/malt flavor than a raspberry flavor in the body. As the beer finishes, the flavor again exits. It is an even flavored beer, not bad, just nothing distinct at all.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2003
at 10:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours a light and murky amber color with a medium off-white head. Decent lacing. Aroma is raspberries of course, but really nothing else. It might have something to do with the fact that I was building a deck in almost 90 degree temperatures, but I found this to be pretty easy to drink. Light bodied and very crisp, and fortunately the raspberry flavor is not as overwhelming as it is in other beers of this type. Clean finish. Nothing award-winning in my book but a passable summer beer.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2003
at 16:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A nice smell, especially if you spend a bunch of the time in kitchen with some odd ingredients. A great colour which shows its differences compared to normal beers. The aroma of some Lavender flowers or even Violet emerges, even though the label only mentions an infusion of Raspberry flavours. Not a bad beer!
Tried
on 10 Mar 2003
at 19:55